Attention NYO&W FANS!!

Really interesting news - I hadn't heard that....

Hmmmm I am in for that

BTW look at this funny looking guy that pops up when you do a google search for NYO&W Mountaineer

I talked to Joe Hayter of Weaver at length about this engine on Friday. He definitely needs feedback to gauge the level of interest in this project! So if you are interested in having your own brass, scale, TMCC equipped Mountaineer, email him at weaver and tell him!

Also, if perchance you have access to any unpublished COLOR pictures of the Mountaineer, Joe would absolutely love to hear from you! He has located one source so far, but additional information will be very welcome indeed!

Chris
LVHR

Here's a pic from the O&W site:

Peter

Here is a more delicious version of the O&W.....I can't tell if it's an FT or F3......

Peter

Peter , THe funny thing is, I have a copy of that beautiful painting above my head as I type and read this. We have GOT! to get this made! 

Peter,

805 was an FT.

Chris

LVHR

FT or F3, it tasted good. I love detailed engines, I mean icing.....

Too bad, this lady moved out of central VA.

Peter

Does anyone make passenger cars for a "Mountaineer?"  If that is in the works, I am interested.  Might as well send an e-mail to Weaver anyway for the steamer. Here's a quick link if anyone is interested.

http://www.weavermodels.com/page61.html

MTH has made some nice passenger cars in both Railking and Premier. (They even made a fake mountineer in railking that looked so bad I couldn't bring myself to buy it! )

Thanks, Mikatt1!  I will look them up, and see how bad things can get.

Getting accurate Mountaineer cars is going to be a challange. I doubt that Weaver is going to make them. Off the top of my head, we might have a better chance with 3rd Rail. Remember, the O&W went cheap on this train: no AC! And they simply repainted old rolling stock that they already owned. Nothing new for this RR, it costs too much! Most of the passenger cars were wood with 4 wheel trucks, and b/c there was no AC, clearstories all the way down the roof on both sides. There were some steel cars with 6 wheel trucks, but again, no AC. 

Chris

LVHR

Tim,

      If you're going to hunt down either of the two Premier passenger or either of the two Rail King passenger sets, start now and good luck. It took me the better part of three years to put together one set of RK four cars and the two car add-on. MTH doesn't seem to make alot of the NYO&W items when they do make them. I passed on the MTH Premier Camelback a few years back and still regret it.

One of the benefits of preordering, which is how I got mine.

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Here is the TCA presentation of Weaver, where the Mountaineer was mentioned as a potential model, along with Steamtown's Boston & Maine 3713.  I hear what you guys are saying on the likelihood (not) of making passenger train-specific cars.  It does beg the question: why would Weaver keep making so many passenger locomotives if they aren't going to make cars to compliment them?  I don't expect an answer, BTW.

I did get this answer tonight from Weaver regarding the e-mail I sent on Tuesday.  

Dave,

That's a nice looking Mountaineer set! The actual thing looks better than the rendition in the catalog. I passed on it b/c of the catalog rendition. I'm still not so sure MTH got it right, but if it is wrong, it's not far off! BTW, the actual Mountaineer was only 1 combine, 4 coaches, and 2 observations. MTH added a baggage, diner, and maybe an RPO. IMHO, the longer train looks better, but that is not what it actually was.

Also, the engine was used to haul freight in the tourist off season, so running it with a freight train is perfectly acceptable. At the end, the O&W did not have very many of their own freight cars and had to rely on other roads to provide them. This was far less profitable for the road, but makes it easy for us to assemble a period freight.

Chris

LVHR

Atlas made some nice freight cars  including hopper and reefer cars. not to mention the Wadell hoppers that were painted in the NYO&W's Middletown N.Y. shops.

MTH has made some NYO&W cars, some of which you have to take with a "grain of salt", but I guess the're better than nothing. (except for the NYO&W modern covered hopper with the map with Cadosia N.Y. misspelled  "Cadosio" .

HEY GUYS,

Let's ALL get behind this project!  I genuinely want to see this happen.  I am throwing everything in to this, all that I have to make this model special.  I'd like it to be all that it can be and to happen with extremely good accuracy.  This includes the original blue prints as well as actual color matching to the original "Ontario Maroon" and Orange paint samples from my own personal collection (as found on the original "Mountaineer Limited" tailsign) as well as my original 1940 and '41 35mm Kodachromes of the engine and train.

Let no grass grow under one's own feet with this project, contact anyone and everyone you guys know who'd be interested!!  Let's all make this one HAPPEN!!!

Thanks,

Paul