Carey - Thank you for the invitation to put the hefty T2 back on the rails at the 2022 Chicago O Scale Meet - I would love to!
I'm afraid my degree of computer literacy would stop short of copying and posting the BRHS #36 article. One article concerned a young lad in Red Oak, IA that Bernard befriended and introduced to model railroading. It was a heart warming narrative. Maybe just purchase the #36 Bulletin, as it is only $10. As "Mad Magazine" used to say on the cover "Our Price - Cheap" !! With all the uproar over copyright laws, safest route is buying #36. It also includes photos of non-Burlington locomotives he built, such as a Rio Grande L95 2-8-8-2.
Jim Seacrest was a personal friend of Bernard and had a monstrous O Scale collection. Not surprised that his collection would be the repository for this engine. I bid on a couple of items at the Seacrest Stout Auction, but got aced out in the closing moments, so swore off all auctions! Was at the DuPage Fair Grounds Monthly train Show about 25 plus years ago, and noted a Burlington Hudson for sale - it clearly was a Corbin. Burlington Bulletin #34 has a very good photo spread and article about the prototype Burlington malleys.
Your posted photo is from the 1958 Model Railroader article and is #4106, another Elesco FWH T2. So clearly Bernard built a batch of T2's, and the lone T3 2-8-8-2. Plus he did at least one of the earlier 2-6-6-2's, the T1's, as noted in the MR article.
Oh, just recalled at the approximate 2017 Chicago Meet, one displayer had a Corbin Burlington M4 2-10-4 for sale. And, yes, his models had their own personality. His had a bit more of a feel of "heft", like the prototype. I say that with ownership of 2 Precision Scale M4's, as a basis of comparison.
Great stuff!! Thank you for the post!!
