“McKeen . . .” Loco
1: The Diesel.
Drawings. 70' Motor Car, p. 6. 48' Trailer, p. 7. 70' RPO-Baggage-Express
Motor Car, p. 8. 55' Motor Car, p. 9.
“The McKeen Motor Car 4701,”
Keystone [PRR employee magazine], Winter 1998, Issue 31-4.
“McKeen’s Magnificent
Machine,” Railroad Modeler, December 1971, p. 32.
Includes scale drawings.
Barnes, Jerry.
“A McKeen
Car in 1:29 Scale,” Garden Railways, August 1997.
p. 70
Carter, Clive. “Union Pacific
Self-Propelled Cars,” Mainline Modeler, June 1998,
Volume 19, Number 6. Pp. 20-27.
Caviglia, Gary.
“Virginia &
Truckee Ry. McKeen Motor Car No. 22,” Narrow Gauge & Short Line
Gazette, July/August 1987, p. 78.
Scale drawing.
Daisy, David J.
“Early
Illinois Central Passenger Motor Cars,”
Green Diamond [Official Publication of the
Illinois Central Historical Society] No. 58, August 2001.
Grasso, Jack. Diamondbugs: The
story of the rail motor car on the Erie Railroad. Flanders,
NJ: RAE Publishing, 1999.
Jackman, Lawrence.
“McKeen
Motor Car Company 70 Foot Motor Car and Cars,” Railroad Model
Craftsman, August 1966, p. 22.
Scale drawings.
Kratville, William W.
“Knife-Noses and Portholes; The story of the McKeen car,”
Trains, July 1960. Pp. 30-39.
Kratville, William, and Harold E. Ranks.
“Meet Mr. McKeen” Motive Power of the
Union Pacific. Barnhart Press, 1977. p. 123; also motor car
roster located at back of book.
Patten, Francis B.
“The
McKeen Machines,” S Gaugian, March/April 1980, p.
16.
Build your own freelance model of a 70' McKeen Car like the author did!
Scale drawing p. 18.
Porter, Russell D.
“Queen
of the Narrow Gauge - McKeen Car,” Railroad Model Craftsman,
February 1958, p. 34.
Includes scale drawings.
Schopp, Bill.
“McKeen
‘Gasolene’ Switching Locomotive,” Railroad Model Craftsman,
April 1951, p. 10.
Schopp, Bill.
“The McKeen
Motor Car - Prototype and Model,” Railroad Model Craftsman,
March 1954, p. 26.
Includes scale drawings.
Schopp, Bill.
“Needlenose:
A McKeen Motor Car,” Railroad Model Craftsman,
August 1939, p. 35.
Includes scale drawings.
Schopp, Bill.
“Union
Pacific Motor Car,” Railroad Model Craftsman,
June 1953, p. 23.
Includes scale drawings.
Schopp, William M.
“Born
Thirty Years Too Soon (McKeen Car History),”
Railroad Magazine, January 1951. Pp.
14-27. (As of August 2005,
this article could be found online at
John’s Alaska Railroad
website. Included are several photos and diagrams.)
White, John H. Jr. The American
Railroad Passenger Car. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1978. Pp. 593-598.
Includes photos of McKeen power plant, and Norfolk & Southern car #90
(same as above but with different lettering); reproduction of car diagram
for B&O Gasoline Motor Car No. 1001; and elevation drawing of
McKeen’s 7th car, built 1906.
Ann
Arbor Railroad’s McKeen Windsplitter No. 3
Photo and brief article.
Buffalo,
Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway Motor Car Number 1001
Postcard view of this car.
Dave’s RailPix
Photo captioned “Woodstock & Sycamore Traction Co. Gas Motor car 701
(built by the McKeen Motor Car Company) at Genoa [Illinois] in the 1910 era.
Operation began on the line in 1911 using three McKeen gas-mechanical cars
that were painted red on the 26.5 mile long single-track line that operated
from Sycamore north to Marengo in north central Illinois. The huge McKeen
cars proved unsuitable for the line because of frequent derailments, and
they were replaced with smaller gasoline Fairbanks-Morse cars.
Electrification was never installed as planned, and after a short futile
history the line folded in 1918.”
Erie Railroad McKeen Gasoline Railcar
The Erie owned three McKeen cars. This website briefly tells their story
and is illustrated by two postcard views.
Former San
Diego, Cuyamaca & Eastern McKeen car body found in Alaska!
[Our title, the page has none.]
Story with both recent and historic photos, brief history of McKeen and
excellent scale diagram.
History of the McKeen Motor Car Company
Good general coverage, with emphasis on the five McKeen cars owned by
Michigan’s Ann Arbor Railroad. Car diagrams of a 55' and a 70' car.
Begins with—but is not limited to—the same article by N.J. Pull that is found on
several other websites, including
N.J. Pull’s
own, and that of the
Nevada State Railroad Museum which owns and is restoring
Virginia & Truckee Motor Car No. 22. (The museum also owns
Chicago Great Western
“locomotive” No. 1000, which is also a former McKeen car
and is a donor of parts in the restoration of No. 22.)
Hocking
County Traction Motor Car in Nelsonville, Ohio
Photo of McKeen car being demonstrated on said railroad.
The McKeen Motor
Car: A Pictorial Review of a Unique Motor Car
Lots of information on the cars themselves, with emphasis on California
railroads.
McKeen
Motor Car Company, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Article has little information, but contains photos captioned, “McKeen
car Roslyn of the Northern Pacific
Railroad,” “McKeen car of the Los Angeles & San Diego Beach Railway, the
‘La Jolla Line’. The cars were nicknamed ‘Red Devils’ or ‘Submarines’,”
and “The engineer at the controls, and the engine behind.”
North East Rails:
McKeen Motor Cars
Photos or links to photos of 20 McKeen cars (13 are Otto Perry shots in
the Denver Public Library Western Collection).
Southern
Pacific Motor Car, Sacramento Valley Lines, California
Postcard view of this car.
SP Motor 03...
in 1946?
Title not relevant, but article is followed by a photo of Southern
Pacific McKeen car No. 13.
Union Pacific
Motor Cars, article by Don Strack.
McKeen was Superintendent of Motive Power for the Union Pacific when he
developed his motor car and the Union Pacific and its related lines owned
more of them than anyone else.
U.P. motor car roster.
As of August 2005, the East Tennessee State University Archives of
Appalachia had, in its Carolina, Clinchfield, and Ohio Records collection, a
drawing described as “McKeen Motor Car Co., 200 HP motor car, 1913-14.”
“The McKeen Motor Car Company, Omaha, Neb., has received orders as
follows: Two 55-ft. motor cars and one 200-h.p. switching locomotive for the
Minneapolis & Northern; one 70-ft. 200-h.p. motor car and one 200 h.p.
switching locomotive for the Lake Erie & Youngstown; five 70-ft. motor cars
for the Sunset-Central Lines, for use on the Morgan's Louisiana & Texas
Railroad & Steamship Company, the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio, and
the Houston & Texas Central.” - Railway Age Gazette, 14 Feb 1913.
