Blimp II: Interurban Boogaloo

This big-eyed fellow is a modernized version of the Southern Pacific/Pacific Electric Class 58 interurban.

These big beasts ran all over the East Bay and Oregon from the 1910s to 1941, when service was abandoned in the Bay Area. From 1939 to 1941 they ran on the Bay Bridge alongside the Key System's Bridge Units.

My new version is intended as an interurban streetcar, with low floors for fully-accessible surface operation, but a wider and longer body for greater comfort over long distances.

The unpainted paper doll version of the Blimp II This is reported to be the original paint scheme for the Class 58s, SP dark olive green. If they ever made it into service with this scheme it was quickly replaced by the iconic red The previously mentioned red scheme, as used during their service in the East Bay. The paint job for a speculative Trans-California interurban service. It is copied from the dressed up Red Car scheme that Pacific Electric applied to the old East Bay cars after acquiring them from Southern Pacific.