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roll_the_dice posted:

Let's get this back to the top...  I would like to see a 4-6-2 light pacific or similar, painted black, but undecorated to any road name.  This way we could letter it to any road name we wanted.  This would help with obscure road names not being done.

This is a very interesting idea.  If there is any chance said light pacific could be stretched into a Erie prototype with a little work (detailing & decaling) on my part, I would be 100% in.

CAPPilot posted:

As a post WWII and PRR runner, I realize I have a lot of steam to choose from.  However, if 3rd Rail decided to do another PRR steamer these are my choices in order of preference:

-B8a.  A 0-6-0T converted from B8 shifters.  Nice small engine that lasted into 50s.

-K5.  Two were built and they lasted into the 50s.

-K2.  242 K2/K3 were built, and only one K2 remained in 1949.  But that is my era so I'd buy it.

-N2sa.  Don't really need another large engine, but this one is missing from all manufacturers' lineups.  While this was initially a USRA design, all were rebuilt with Belpaire fireboxes starting in 1923.  I would only buy the rebuilt version.

The only diesel I want is a Phase II or Phase III F3 ABA (Phase II early would be great).  Not interested in Phase I, Phase IV or F5.  Right now 3rd Rail's web site states only the Phase IV will be made, probably using some of their F7 tooling.  

Relooking what I wrote earlier, I realize that I really only need/want/desire two engines, the B8a and F3 Phase II/III ABA consist.

I do not need, nor want, any more large steamers.  The B8a would be a nice small steamer for yard work.

I only have one freight diesel, an Erie Built AB consist.  I would like an F3 (Phase II/III only) ABA set to give me another freight option, but right now 3rd Rail is only doing the Phase IV.  May have to wait a few years for this one.

Well, with the failure of the Santa Fe 2-6-2 to generate much interest, I think more Santa Fe steam is only wishful thinking for a while, so don't faint, I am actually going to suggest foreign line engines.

Frisco had very neat and well-maintained locomotives.  I could get a Frisco caboose or three Frisco passenger cars and use a small Frisco steam engine on an imaginary train on the high plains.  Even better would be an engine from the Frisco subsidiary, Quanah Acme & Pacific.  I think they both rostered 4-6-0's.

But Scott has tried to offer Frisco in the past, and not enough interest was forthcoming.  So, something that might sell and I might buy would be a Southern Pacific 4-6-2.  Scott offered such an engine, oh, I don't know, maybe 10 years ago.  Maybe it could work again, especially in light of the Harriman cars recently produced.

I won't hold my breath, though.  Big 4-8-4's and articulateds seem to be what the market wants.

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CAPPilot posted:
 

Relooking what I wrote earlier, I realize that I really only need/want/desire two engines, the B8a and F3 Phase II/III ABA consist.

I do not need, nor want, any more large steamers.  The B8a would be a nice small steamer for yard work.

I only have one freight diesel, an Erie Built AB consist.  I would like an F3 (Phase II/III only) ABA set to give me another freight option, but right now 3rd Rail is only doing the Phase IV.  May have to wait a few years for this one.

Looks like I got my wish on the F3.  Do to the similarities between the F3 Ph IV and the F7, 3rd Rail has decided to make a F3 Ph II engine instead, at least for the PRR according to Jonathan.  Not sure about the other roads.  Their web site now says they are making Ph II through Ph IV but has not yet provided any additional information.

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milwrd posted:

Milwaukee Road Mallet 2-6-6-2.

Image result for milwaukee road mallet 2-6-6-2 pics

They did these engines years ago ( not mallets) with the shroud over the boiler.  I had one but didn't think the Milwaukee road was a choice.  Like small Berkshires.

 

Hot water I know you can correct me regarding type

It's not a shroud.  It's a Coffin Feedwater heater. 

Coffin Feedwater heaters could also be recessed into the smokebox as on some Frisco 2-8-2's:

2-8-2 SLSF 1355

Rusty

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CAPPilot posted:
CAPPilot posted:
 

Relooking what I wrote earlier, I realize that I really only need/want/desire two engines, the B8a and F3 Phase II/III ABA consist.

I do not need, nor want, any more large steamers.  The B8a would be a nice small steamer for yard work.

I only have one freight diesel, an Erie Built AB consist.  I would like an F3 (Phase II/III only) ABA set to give me another freight option, but right now 3rd Rail is only doing the Phase IV.  May have to wait a few years for this one.

Looks like I got my wish on the F3.  Do to the similarities between the F3 Ph IV and the F7, 3rd Rail has decided to make a F3 Ph II engine instead, at least for the PRR according to Jonathan.  Not sure about the other roads.  Their web site now says they are making Ph II through Ph IV but has not yet provided any additional information.

While I did get my F3 ABA Ph II wish, the B8a tank engine is still on my 3rd Rail wish list.

B8aT

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For those who like Union Pacific power, as I do, and I know enough have been made already.  But, for something a little different, the U.P. ALCO made C855/C856 units of the early Century Series engines.

And, as Tom stated, would really like to see more Frisco and QAP engines from the turn of the 20th century to the 1940s periods.  AS for passenger. a model of the streamliner passenger the QAP ran on it's short line between Frisco and Santa Fe mains, and the Frisco Firefly.   As well as the one that started this off, the Santa Fe Madame Queen.  Have seen and photographed her many times, to have a scale model would be great!

Jesse   TCA    12-68275

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texastrain posted:

And, as Tom stated, would really like to see more Frisco and QAP engines from the turn of the 20th century to the 1940s periods.  AS for passenger. a model of the streamliner passenger the QAP ran on it's short line between Frisco and Santa Fe mains, and the Frisco Firefly. Jesse   TCA    12-68275

The Frisco Firefly streamlined 4-6-2 was the engine that I was referring to as not being produced.  Scott Mann cataloged it in early-2000's catalogs, but it did not generate enough orders for a production run.

Maybe a second attempt would work, since Scott now can do smaller numbers of an engine.

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