Murnane posted:On a separate note, I found the following picture this week on the NY Public Library picture archive, wondering what sort of critter we have here as the picture isn't so great.
http://digitalcollections.nypl...d9-e040-e00a18064a99
This is a New York Elevated Steam Forney. These were the power for the Elevated trains until the coming of electrification. A lot of them were displaced around 1910 and went on to further lives in Logging, road building, industry and construction. Chicago had very similar engines with a similar fate.
One Chicago engine is preserved at the Forney Museum in Colorado and Three ex NY EL engines are rusting away abandoned on the tundra of Alaska after abandonment following a railroad construction project.
These are engines I would absolutly LOVE to have done in O scale. There are a pair of them in a nice diorama that used to be in the railroad hall at the Smithsonian in DC that has been brought to the NYC Transit Miseum in Brooklyn. I have always loved this model and remember it fondly having grown up in DC.
