Winona Windsplitter

Photos of Winona Windsplitters are rare. Photos of two of them are even further rare. Here are two of them in the Indianapolis Traction Terminal , on track 5 and 6.

Electric Railway Journal, September 30, 1916, page 658

Winona Windsplitter Interurban, painted

Winona Lines Interurban, Jewett Car Co 1910, H0 scale

The Winona "Windsplitter" Interurban has received his second coat of paint and takes the mild sun of a Paris spring afternoon...

This is a pre-production model, some minor changes will be made, as relocating the chimney behind the baggage door.

Winona Lines Interurban, Jewett Car Co 1910, H0 scale

First coat of paint for the Windsplitter

Winona "Windsplitter" Interurban Combine (Jewett Car Co)

Black operations

No, this is not a funeral car.

This is only the Winona Windsplitter wearing a very first black primer coat.

Winona Windsplitter nearly completed

I am still waiting for my test prints of the Fort- Wayne - Lima Lightweight Combine, Shapeways is a little bit behind its schedules ...

I use the waiting time to complete the Windsplitter. Now it has a pilot, roofwalks, and the typical small circular toilet windows of Jewett cars.

Only the underfloor equipment is not yet ready, I need to do some final research within the old photos.

Winona Windsplitter H0 scale model

While awaiting the first test print of the Fort Wayne Lightwight Combine, my old Windsplitter project meets some attention. 

The first job is done: the model looks somewhat like a Winona Windsplitter. The general proportions seem mainly ok, when compared to photos. As no side elevation exists from this car, modeling work must be done essentialy with photos. Fortunately, a floor plan were published in reviews when the cars were new. 

Any comment, critic or help is welcome.

The mythical Winona Windsplitter - and his not so spectacular rear end

Winona Windsplitter rear end

One of my current "long term projects" is the Winona Windsplitter as an H0 print model. It is not as advanced as the Ft Wayne - Lima Combine, but sometimes I like to change, because working on a single project could be boring.

Nothing spectacular was done, just the rear end of this car, which is nothing else than a standard rear end of a Jewett build car.

But some details were more difficult than expected: the arched doors and the buffer with its steps. But it is done.

Of course, the elliptical front end, this will be another round.

New in my Library: History of the Jewett Car Company

From Small Town to Downtown

A History of the Jewett Car Company, 1893-1919

Lawrence A. Brough and James H. Graebner

2004, Indiana University Press, 272 pages.

About 100 photos, including some rare, but very few car diagrams.

Nice written and well reserached story of the life and the death of this Ohio car builder.  Extensive appendix trying to list all delivered cars, very useful for traction researchers and modelers.