D500 posted:Blue Streak posted:The Frisco 4524 has my attention as well - just wish it had a coal tender like it should. May be my sort of fantasy engine for the year.
The Cotton Belt F7's will be #1 on my order form
Just for the heck of it - I was curious - I looked up the Frisco 4-8-4's in Collias' book Frisco Power, to find out that only 3 of these locos were indeed oil-burners - 4500, 4501, 4502. You probably already know that.
Four 4-8-4's were preserved, per the book, and, oddly, 2 of them were oil-burners (4500 and 4501), and, to make matters more annoying, 4524 is indeed preserved, but it's a coal-burner.
Oh, well - the model is of an ATSF 4-8-4 and tender anyway. How accurate could the "Frisco" version be?
Yes All of the engines I am most interested in besides the Cotton Belt F7's (already ordered) are sort of fantasy's.
Frisco 4500 "Meteor" The engine is fairly close and it was an oil burner but that flat top tender just does not look good.
Frisco 4524 was a coal burner
Missouri Pacific 2202 was a coal burner
Rock Island 5100 is kind of a mix between 5000 class (tender - I have pics of 5051 and 5049 with a similar oil tender) but the engine looks more like the 5100 class.
I already suggested to Ryan why not use the tender from the C&O T1 in the last catalog. That would basically fix the Mopac engine easily, Frisco 4524 - although the top of the tender did not have sloped sides and the 4500 would look much more correct. Just take the coal load out and add some plates and call it new tooling on the cheap. 4500 would then be a winner.
They did this sort of with the EM-1's in the catalog (mixing up the tenders) But only me suggesting these things will not get this done - need others to suggest it. I would go for all 4 if they did some simple fixes.
