Seaboard/N De M and PRR Centipedes??

I would like to know also.  I could not find any answers to this question.  My understanding was the A-A units were built together and were suppose to come apart.  

Seaboard had 14 Centipedes (4500-4513), only 4500 was built with a steam generator (water tanks converted to hold fuel in 1949).

The worked mainline freights from Atlanta and Jacksonville, north to Richmond.  They were transferred to Jacksonville, working in Florida and to Montgomery AL and scrapped in 1961.

Of all the photos I've seen, I've only seen SAL single units.  I would expect most company photos would not show a RRs units with other RRs units.

Judging from period photos of the N de M (My gosh, was 1963 really over 50 years ago?), the N de M did use AA combinations. I'm trying to remember if they ran elephant style or back to back and am drawing a blank. The N de M also let them run solo from time to time.

For Mexican caboose fans: when in doubt, paint the caboose yellow.

Are you asking if this was ever done in the real-world?  Or are you asking if folks have run the single Lionel units in these combinations to make your own A-A?  The latter is probably technically doable -- however, in all likelihood you won't have the steroephonic echo in the Railsounds horn that comes with Lionel's factory-paired AA units.

David

I ordered the N de M yesterday it was $100.0 cheaper than the others. Now I have to have a train heading south to the border!!!  

I found this link showing a picture of the real train

http://locomotive.wikia.com/wiki/N_de_M_(National_Railways_of_Mexico)

http://www.rrpicturearchives.n...ture.aspx?id=2350056

http://www.rrpicturearchives.n...ture.aspx?id=2381942

PRR Centipedes  in A-A units made it to St. Louis on passenger trains.

Dan

I grew up in Tallahassee, FL and the old timer railfans use to tell me about seeing these on the East-West main from Jacksonville to the Seaboard's connection with the L&N to the West, on through trains into New Orleans at the tail end of their career. I wasn't born until the end of the 60s, so I never got to see one.

I'd also heard rumors as a kid that one was still hidden around the area, but we've all heard stories like that. Sort of a big engine to just throw a tarp over and hope nobody notices.

The N d M version hauling oil. Got this one from Charlies Centipede blow out sale a couple months ago.

Thx for the picture Bil, this color scheme looks great in black and red....

I may have made a good/bad  deal here....I made a ridiculously Low bid on a brand new 2007 Z-6 MTH Challenger and it got accepted!!!

But I still want to get the Centipede A unit, most likely in the Seaboard RR, so now I will have to sell my soul to the Devil for about $465....

I swear this hobby is worse than addiction to drugs!!!!

PRR centipedes were all semi- permanently coupled together with a drawbar link in between the units. They always ran in a pair back to back. I never never seen a single PRR centipede  running on the mainline in any book or picture.

Those of you that bought a Centipede, how was it package?  Did it have the blue ribbons to pull it out?  I jut opened mine and it didn't have them and the windows for the cab where laying in the box. I try to run it but it would move, it makes all the sound, and i program it into my control.  Wondering if I got someone returned item. Jut didn't seem right with out the ribbons

No ribbons for mine. have not tested it yet. BUT:

On the box is clearly states: "NON VISION LINE" Centipede xxxxx

Why in the catalog it never mentions the same? Most people, including some Lionel dealers "thought" that the single unit is a VL product.

I am not happy knowing that the single unit is a one year warranty even though it is PRICED and built identically to the A-A unit (apart form the echo sound)

I bought the single unit thinking it was a 3 year warranty after one of the dealers stated this on this forum (I don't blame them,They may have made the same assumptions most of us did).

Anyway, I'll be contacting Lionel to get some answers after I get back to the US..

Sorry about your Centipede,I'd see if a local dealer can take care of you or send it back to Lionel...I do hope I will not go through this with my two units..

I brought it from a online dealer. My local guy wouldn't touch it, if he didn't sell it.  I guess I'll be calling Lionel tomorrow.  I waited two weeks to open it, I like to reward my self by completing a project in the train room then I can't open a package.  It was a choice between that and 3rd rail train of the future. I guess I picked the wrong package.

LOL...They put the windows in the box to see if you are capable of doing it yourself, hence on next production they will do the same to ALL locos and save 0.02 cents per loco....

If you are a little mechanical, I'd open it up and fix it myself, why spend $35+ for shipping and wait weeks or months and risk shipping damage?

It Su*** on an $1099 MSRP loco, but C'set la vie (such is life)

Thx Bob. Great to see single A units pulling a long train.

That other NdM paint scheme is really nice. I wish some one would model it..