to be unreliable and they were expensive to run, costing almost twice as much per mile as a steam-hauled passenger train. By 1920, Car No 1 was out of commission. Cars No 2 and 5 were modified as Tourist or Day Inspection Cars, which included luxury appointments and seating for 32 passengers. All five units were written-off between 1929 and 1931, and were broken up soon after at the Ipswich workshops. Withdrawal The Nevada State Railroad Museum completed the restoration of McKeen car, #22 of the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, a car by 05/09/2010. The original powerplant did not survive, but it was replaced with a modern engine and drive system to allow the car to transport visitors to the museum around its short track. Model Railways HO Scale The McKeen motor car and trailer coach are offered as cast resin kits by Funaro & Camerlengo in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. Historically McKeen motor cars were imported in brass by Ken Kidder (55' car, unpainted), LMB (55' car, unpainted), Overland Model Imports (OMI) (70' cars, unpainted and factory painted for various road names), and Precision Scale Company (PSC) of Hamilton, MT (70' cars, unpainted and factory painted for various road names). All these brass importer brands are now defunct. OMI and PSC also did import McKeen trailer coaches (painted and unpainted) as well. Only Ken Kidder had one run of McKeen motorcar with an operating flywheel. The rest of the HO models have the flywheel as static when operating the McKeen motorcar. Actual McKeen motorcar flywheels were always rotating (in motion) when the motor was operating, and in the direction the motor was running, even if the car was stopped, as the motor direction controlled the direction the motorcar operated. References External links McKeen Rail Motor Cars Operating Manual from Victorian Railways Historic photo See also Lakeside and Marblehead Railroad Railroads in Omaha Victorian Railways Weitzer railmotor, Europe's first railmotor produced in considerable numbers, at the same time as the McKeen Railmotor. Victorian Railways railmotors Rail transportation in Nebraska Railcars of the United States Rolling stock innovations