Good morning:
I just discovered the Narragansett Railroad had a Forney that would take people from the mainline to Narragansett Bay for a Steam Ship ride to Newport. Has MTH / Lionel / Atlas made one of these smaller Forneys?
Thank you.
Paul
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Good morning:
I just discovered the Narragansett Railroad had a Forney that would take people from the mainline to Narragansett Bay for a Steam Ship ride to Newport. Has MTH / Lionel / Atlas made one of these smaller Forneys?
Thank you.
Paul
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I've seen Bachman's On30 Forney.
Then there was this thread: https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/t.../forney-just-arrived
I'd love to have one of these in 3R O as well. My grandpa had one in 1.5" live steam, but he passed before he could run it with me.
That could be a seller - maybe for the transit guys too, as Forneys were well-known on the early elevated railroads. The pic and link are of a model in the Smithsonian. http://amhistory.si.edu/onthem...tion/object_806.html
Back in my On30 days I built a couple of Forneys out of Bachmann Porters before B'mann came out with theirs. Had to allow for lateral rear truck swing to go around the 18" radius curves on my layout. Like the trailing truck on a bigger steam engine. You could probably do similar with a (K-Line?) Porter or other small 0-4-0 loco in O gauge 3 rail.
A big source of the Forney engines in short lines and industrial use were byspoducts of the electrification of the Chicago and NYC elevated trains. A lot ended up in logging and construction. Three ex NYC El engines are rusting away in Alaska. A Chicago El Forney is at the Forney Transportation Museum as well.
Oh boy..this is like me trying to get small two truck Heislers and other small engines out of the mfrs., or get Bachmann to offer theirs in three rail. Except for Bachmann, you'd think there wasn't enough markup
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