rheil posted:Hot Water posted:prrq2 posted:A Wishlist is great.A B&O Royal Blue 4 6 2
Didn't Sunset/3rd Rail already produce a blue B&O Pacific?
Yes they did. It was available in 2 and 3 rail in The Cincinnatian streamlined version as well as 5314 which was the modernized (centered headlight and air pumps on the front end) locomotive and 5315 which was also modernized with running board skirting. The tender had 6 wheel trucks and had the rounded coaming unlike the Sunset / 3rd Rail T-3 which had square coaming on the rear of the tender.
In real life the B&O transferred the tenders back and forth between the T-3 and P-7e locomotives since they all were steam line equipped - just different paint. I have photos of 5314 with both versions of tender - square and rounded coaming. I saw them in real life lots of times but can't recall which tender was with which locomotive and when that was. Some of the locomotives kept their 4 wheel truck shorter tenders even when the locomotive was modernized.
Sunset did a total of 125 of the 5314 and 5315 in 2 and 3 rail combined and 50 of the Cincinnatian locomotive. I have 3 of them, a 5314, a 5315, and a Cincinnatian locomotive.
Of the 50 Cincinnatian locomotives only about 5 were sold to folks who later purchased the 5 car Cincinnatian train set from Golden Gate.
R.Heil - Sunset Models / 3rd Rail
Very glad to hear of others interested in these locomotives!
Here is an example of 5314:
Now I just have to build a complete B&O layout around it, haha!
