October 5, 2015
Mike - This comment of your's ought to appear on a Pennsy List:
God only knows what Pennsy wanted to buy... probably duplex drive Big Boys
with pantagraphs and traction motors in the tenders and the whole thing
streamlined by Raymond Lowey!!!
Absolutely boggles my imagination.... Thanks and best regards - Louis
Louis Zadnichek II
Fairhope, AL
In a message dated 10/5/2015 1:34:32 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
CBQ@yahoogroups.com writes:
Hi Rupert and
list,
Good idea about the herald. One idea I had was to use a
cheap Bachmann NKP 2-8-4 as painted and paint out the names on the tender with
black paint and use a Burlington Route decal over the top of what had been the
Nickel Plate Road lettering. The engine would be left numbered in the
#700 series with the yellow factory numbering under the cab window. The
NYC&StL lettering on the sand dome would be painted out as well. The
rationale would be that the War Production Board diverted a couple of the 1944
Lima 2-8-4s to the CB&Q from the NKP due to a fictional need for
power.
Or you could go whole hog and just make it a CB&Q
2-8-4 built by Lima. Have a drop pilot on the front, use the twin beam
MARS / warning light, get rid of the number boards the NKP used and put a
regular Sunbeam headlight on the front. Swap the Buckeye trucks on the
tender out for Commonwealth trucks. Or completely get rid of the Lima
tender and use something like a spare O5 tender from Overland Models. I
think changing the tender trucks would do quite a lot to change the looks of
the tender.
Another bonkers idea I had was to assume that Baldwin
somehow convinced the "Q" to buy a couple of 4-10-2s when their demonstrator
#60,000 was touring in the '20s or whenever). Use a cheap Union Pacific
3 cylinder 4-10-2 from LMB and get rid of the tender and substitute a spare
M4a tender which I already have. The UP 4-10-2 has an extended front end
so it might be somewhat feasible. A Hudson tender might also be a better
tender to use or something similar to an M2a tender.
I'm just bored
with the collection of steam I have. I've pretty much been able to
acquire everything made that is out there (short of an Elesco FWH O1a... not
willing to pay the prices they go for... the old LMBs are fine for me!).
I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the "Q" had tried to build a
2-10-4 around 1940 or so. Imagine an O5 but as a 2-10-4. I'd be
willing to junk a Custom Brass 4-8-4 to make something like that... put it on
a Bachmann Santa Fe 2-10-4 chassis maybe. I don't know if the dimensions
would work or not since the Santa Fe drivers are the same size as an O5...
you'd have to add a course to the O5 boiler I bet. At some point if a
ready-to-run O5 is ever made (and it could happen... Broadway or MTH has a
Milwaukee Road S3 announced... of course the #261 is restored which helps that
project) the values of the Custom Brass 4-8-4s will completely crash (I bought
one a few years ago for something like $140 in an off the beaten path auction
- not eBay in other words).
If one were to make a WW2 era 2-10-4
a better idea would probably be a C&O / PRR style 2-10-4 which was a
proven design like the 2-8-4s. The Pennsy's use of the Chessie / Lima /
Advisory Mechanical Committee design gives you a plausible precedent. I
think the Milwaukee Road wanted FT sets but was forced into buying the S3
sets. Rio Grande had to buy UP style Challengers and they probably
wanted unobtainable FT sets as well. God only knows what Pennsy wanted
to buy... probably duplex drive Big Boys with pantagraphs and traction motors
in the tenders and the whole thing streamlined by Raymond
Lowey!!!
Anyway, just more goofy thoughts.
Mike Martin
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