Here is the Frisco - This is my favorite with the Oil Tender, white walls and decorative paint on the tender.
Also Here is the Southern Pacific Lines A6 #3000.
Also I realized after I posted these pictures that the lettering appears to be white in the Photos but is actually silver. The white walls are white.
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Are there cosmetic differences between these engines and the 4-8-2's Lionel ran a few years ago? I know these are new road names.
I read that the smoke units and sound are improved too.
Nice model of the S.P. A-6. However, it appears Lionel used the same tooling from the original S.P. A-6 almost twenty years ago, i.e. the Pennsy Atlantic steam chests, bar pilot, multiple bearing crosshead guides and the Pennsy style trailing truck. The whole Pennsy Atlantic chassis. S.P. always used "lettering gray" not silver for their lettering.
Anyone get 3002 from the A6’s? If so, can we seem some photos? Thanks
That tender is showboating with those white walls and gold number and frame design.
Not sure that is true - I think SP used silver some times, the grey others, and in maybe two cases gold and orange.
The A-6 has the wrong tender. SP never had an oil bunker like that.
The Mountain looks really good! Did L&N really have white boilers?
Blue Streak, your three new engines look awesome. Given you also got new shells for your F units, you’re having a terrific couple weeks! Enjoy and thanks for all the pics.
bob2 posted:The Mountain looks really good! Did L&N really have white boilers?
Inquiring minds would like to know. Pics would be reassuring.
Rider Sandman posted:Blue Streak, your three new engines look awesome. Given you also got new shells for your F units, you’re having a terrific couple weeks! Enjoy and thanks for all the pics.
Yes I am. I feel like Santa Claus has come. I can't stop looking at the Frisco 1501 as I think it is wonderful. Also I found out today that my Missouri Pacific arrives Monday and Lionel has received my T&P F units today as well. Yes I am having a great couple weeks of new trains. Hopefully in about 2 or 3 weeks I will be able to post pictures of the T&P's. Kunkle says the new shells look great so I am hoping they turn out superbly. Those F units were the first ever that I had opened, laughed(cried), and then contacted my dealer for my money back all in 15 minutes.
The L&N Historical Society has some old black and white photos of engines #400, 402, and 419. It seems clear that the boiler is lighter color than the smoke box, but it sure doesn’t look close to white
I saw one SP 2-10-2 with a light grey boiler. I never saw a green one, but there are plenty of photos . . .
The L&N appears to be painted - Russia iron would only be the jacket over the lagging. And it looks more grey-silver than white. I can buy grey-silver. I shall dig up a photo of my Seaboard Mountain for you. It has a light blue metallic boiler.
At a glance, the boiler and cab of the A-6 look close. It would be tough to do the Daylight scheme with that tender. It would be easy enough to modify it, but I know that is not something 3-railers enjoy.
I received my Southern Mountain today - running it over a SensorTrack programs the name and road number in Legacy as the North Pole Central mountain #1224...
look real nice! May try to pick one up at York.
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Harold
breezinup posted:That tender is showboating with those white walls and gold number and frame design.
*sigh*
The only engine I *have* to be an accuracy snob on. . . .
Lionel did a much better job on the tender than the engine, but all the white walls need to GO. They really mess up the graphics, and the Springfield shops would hang their heads in shame over them.
It really is a shame that they didn't do the right tooling for this class.
But the 1501 sits just a couple miles from where I am sitting right now, and it is the one engine I just can't accept compromises on. It's my problem, I know.
palallin posted:breezinup posted:That tender is showboating with those white walls and gold number and frame design.
*sigh*
The only engine I *have* to be an accuracy snob on. . . .
Lionel did a much better job on the tender than the engine, but all the white walls need to GO. They really mess up the graphics, and the Springfield shops would hang their heads in shame over them.
It really is a shame that they didn't do the right tooling for this class.
But the 1501 sits just a couple miles from where I am sitting right now, and it is the one engine I just can't accept compromises on. It's my problem, I know.
A Q tip dipped in a Lacquer thinner will have that white paint off in a minute. Easiest if you put it in a cradle upside down, apply power, and just hold the Q tip next to the tire. Don't think twice, its alright.
Pete
bob2 posted:I saw one SP 2-10-2 with a light grey boiler. I never saw a green one, but there are plenty of photos . . .
The L&N appears to be painted - Russia iron would only be the jacket over the lagging. And it looks more grey-silver than white. I can buy grey-silver. I shall dig up a photo of my Seaboard Mountain for you. It has a light blue metallic boiler.
At a glance, the boiler and cab of the A-6 look close. It would be tough to do the Daylight scheme with that tender. It would be easy enough to modify it, but I know that is not something 3-railers enjoy.
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Any word on the Lionel Illinois Central A6? I have one on order from Train World, but the last contact I had with the dealer revealed a "sometime in September" deliver date estimate.
palallin posted:breezinup posted:That tender is showboating with those white walls and gold number and frame design.
*sigh*
The only engine I *have* to be an accuracy snob on. . . .
Lionel did a much better job on the tender than the engine, but all the white walls need to GO. They really mess up the graphics, and the Springfield shops would hang their heads in shame over them.
It really is a shame that they didn't do the right tooling for this class.
But the 1501 sits just a couple miles from where I am sitting right now, and it is the one engine I just can't accept compromises on. It's my problem, I know.
I realize it would have been expensive to get all the detail for each roadname, It would have been nice if they could have gotten the correct valve gear for the Frisco. The rest of the detail is pretty close and doesn't stand out as much.