Was this class of locomotives ever offered for sale in HO, brass or otherwise?
Mike Thomasson
Austin, Texas
---- "LZadnichek@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> March 23, 2015
>
> Group - To give those members who are not all that familiar with Q subsid
> iary FW&D and its Texas Zephyr, I've attached an image of a 550 series FW&D
> 4-6-2 type powering the train at Fort Worth, TX, in 1953. I can't quite
> make out the front number plate, but the locomotive might be No. 556, the
> next
> to the last of its Class. At the time this image was taken, steam power on
> the Texas Zephyr would be good for another two years between Forth Worth
> and Dallas, TX, before Q E-5 passenger diesels finally put the big Pacifics
> in the scrap line. I think that by 1955 this segment of the Texas Zephyr
> was the last regularly steam powered passenger train on the Q and its
> subsidiaries. Perhaps, the 550 series Pacific seen here was the same
> locomotive
> shown in the earlier image being picked-up by T&P and FW&D steam derricks
> after derailing. Best Regards - Louis
>
> Louis Zadnichek II
> Fairhope, AL
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Posted by: <mthomasson@austin.rr.com>
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