Chicago & Northwestern, and Cotton Belt PC-90s!

A Chicago & Northwestern Piggy-Packer at work in Chicago's Wood Street Yard. (see arrow in photo; photo from April 1978 issue of North Western Lines)

The St. Louis Southwestern Railroad (a.k.a Cotton Belt) was SP subsidary and assigned one of their PC-90s at the East St. Louis yard. (Photo originally from SP Bulletin Oct-Nov. 1977 - please excuse the photo scan quality here!)

Below are pre-production Wheels of Time HO scale models of the Chicago & Northwestern and the Cotton Belt units. Noticed the steering wheel, dashboard and driver's seat inside the cab. The cab is held in place by friction-fit, so you can lift out the cab and install a scale operator inside, if you so choose. Enjoy.

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It's an extra large wrap

No, it's not something delicious to eat.  Instead here's Caltrain wrapped up in a colorful ad taken at South City.  The next photo is taken at Muni Metro East facility to what looks like an old yellow or GM motor coach adjacent to a 1950 era Marmon-Herrington trolley coach all wrapped up.

Classic N & W and BN units

More pre-production photos - classic N & W and Burlington Northern PC-90s. As you probably guessed it, most railroads begin equipping their piggy-back operations with piggy-packers to speed loading and unloading of trains. BN had a variety of logo design on their units. A photo of this BN one appeared in Jane's Freight Container book.

FWD Piggy-Packer

Here's a pre-production photo of our HO scale FWD Wagner Piggy-Packer. The strongman logo on the FWD units are different than the Raygo Wagner ones. FWD's are the earlier models.