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The only 2-4-4-2 I have heard much about is that of the Little River Logging Co. in east Tennessee (now Smokies), that

went west, worked on NW logging roads, and is now under restoration in Washington or Oregon.  There must have been others than just that one, that I have not read about. (maybe not for U.S, maybe for export?)  I think that was a Baldwin

engine, but how about Lima, Alco, Dunkirk, etc. erecting shops?  (I doubt if Altoona cranked one out)

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Little River 148 was a 2nd 2-4-4-2 built after #126 was found not be able to handle the curves on the line.  148, built in 1909, ran until the road shut down and was scrapped in 1940.  There a number of great photos of it pulling various passenger trains into the mountains and by all accounts was a workhorse for the road.  

 

Bob

Originally Posted by sinclair:
Originally Posted by Hot Water:
Originally Posted by sinclair:

Even better, a 2-4-4-2 and 2-4-4-2T double headed.

Don't think that a "2-4-4-2T" was ever produced.

I guess it'd be more proper to call it a 2-4-4-6T, unless that really is a tender on #7.

 

It's a tender.  Not everyone uses a pair of 4 or 6 wheel trucks.

2-4-4-2 TTT New Zeland

 

And here's another view.  Now in #4's clothing on the Glennbrook Vintage Railway, Aukland City, New Zealand.

2-4-4-2 GVR 4

Rusty

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Thanks...that looks like a close-coupled four wheel tender on the New Zealand #7.

Somebody above said the Little River's version was scrapped?  I'd heard that it was under restoration in the Northwest?  I have seen the Little River's other unusual, for a logging road, small Pacific recently on a tourist road in SW Michigan, so it survives

and was operating. (I now wonder, if tracking problems made the road's first 2-4-4-2

unworkable, that is the reason they bought a Pacific with more guide wheels)

Originally Posted by colorado hirailer:

Thanks...that looks like a close-coupled four wheel tender on the New Zealand #7.

Somebody above said the Little River's version was scrapped?  I'd heard that it was under restoration in the Northwest?  I have seen the Little River's other unusual, for a logging road, small Pacific recently on a tourist road in SW Michigan, so it survives

and was operating. (I now wonder, if tracking problems made the road's first 2-4-4-2

unworkable, that is the reason they bought a Pacific with more guide wheels)

Little River had TWO 2-4-4-2's, #126 and #148.

 

Here's the story.  You have to be a subscriber to the magazine to read it, but it does exist.  It's actually former Little River 126, their first 2-4-4-2 built in 1908.

 

http://trn.trains.com/news/new...fter-nearly-60-years

 

It's the 126 that had tracking trouble on the Little River and wound up on the west coast.

 

2-4-4-2 #148 was built in 1909 (I believe the drivers were spaced closer together than the 126's) and was successful on the Little River.  #148 went to the great roundhouse in the sky in 1940.

 

Rusty

 

 

Originally Posted by 49Lionel:
Originally Posted by Robert S. Butler:

...and here's the O gauge model from a few years back.

 

 

Engine_PSC_Little_River_2_4_4_2

Is that New Jersey Custom Brass?  Sure is beautiful.  Does it do 36" radius?  I've had thoughts of getting one and adding center rail rollers...  sorry!

The "NJ" in "NJ Custom Brass" does not stand for New Jersey", as the two partners lived on Long Island, NY, but instead for Nick and Jack, the names of the partners.

 

Stuart

 

 

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