Thanks for the photos Ken
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Ms-4 road number 4866 was built at the Richmond Works in 1926 and retired for scrap in 1952.
As your 4866 prototype photo shows it mounted an Elesco Feedwater Heater astride the Smokebox and appears[?] to have had a 6-wheel tender. The catalog photo does not show it equipped with either the Elesco Heater or the 6-wheel tender. However, engine schematics and most photos show four wheel tenders.
The Southern never had a water supply problem on its main line routes and solved the coal problem by building up the bunker capacity on its tenders which Lionel has done. There was little need for 14,000 gallon 6-wheel tenders.
Hopefully the actual model will be produced correctly--we shall see? Easy solution is to correct the road number, better solution is to equip it with an Elesco.[ Ms-4s produced after road number 4850 in 1926 were equipped with Elesco Feedwater Heaters].
ps: Ms-4 #4866 was serviced out of Pegram Shops in Atlanta and had the Shop's traditional fingernail headlight visor as well as angled number boards. TIES Magazine photo of #4866 in May 1948 shows a 10,000 gallon 4-wheel tender.
[poor photo...TIES Magazine]
Dewey, thanks for the information. I kind of doubt Lionel will make the pro-typical model. It appears they using the same model for many different road names like they have done in the past with other engines. Thanks for the sharing the photo. There are several differences in the photo I found and the one you have. I wonder why? I assume there were some changes to the engine at some point…maybe in Atlanta? I can’t remember where I found this photo. I did a Google search and took snapshot of it out of an article that I found online. Ken
