Post your 2-8-4 Locomotives Here!

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I thought this was already done some time ago by Ted Hikel. Have you tried the search function?

I did. Are you referring to the "O Scale Guide: Berkshires?" I will have another look.

Yes, that should be it.

Well there's a switcher Saturday every week so what does it hurt to do something like this every so often. Just saying. 

Okay.  That thread Ted Hikel posted was to another purposes really.  This is potentially a lot of fun.  I'll play.

I have two scale Berks, both recent Legacy.  One is the of the ATSF 4199, a model of a rather small Berk, but very cool in its own way, detailed, intricate machinery, etc.  the other a 765 that I relabeled in my own livery.  It is a slightly bigger Berk, and of course has a familiar look.   Of the two, I like the 4199 best: both are good, and both run and look good and I run them alot, but I just like the smaller one a bit more.  They are both good locos.

 Here the two are: you can see the difference between a small and a big Berk. 

Here is a short video of them both running; pulling whatever rolling stock was on that part of the layout etc., and only a few seconds.  All i could do this late in the evening.  

How about a Lionel 1946 726? The real Thing/

Mr Lee, You have great talents, trains and a great layout, but please can you use a tripod? 

The K-Line Scale AT&SF Berk from many years ago, way ahead of the industry for detail back then. Wasn't long after the super detailed scale Berk and Mike came out that K-Line bit the dust.

Red is an ironic color for this Berk as I call it the "Jinx Engine." What could go wrong with this engine does go wrong. It is the one lemon on the roster of over 30 Rail King locomotives.

My plan for the Jinx is to repaint it in satin black and doll it up for the Nickle Plate. Maybe then it will straighten out and fly right!

What was MTH thinking when they came up with this fantasy paint job? The Devil?

We have two.

I'll play...

My CC 726 on display in the man cave:

A visiting friend's Berk on my S Scale railroad:

The same S Scale Berk compared to a RailKing Berk:

And a flight of fancy from my HO days:

Rusty

Great pics all

736 out to pick up some varnish

C&O No2696

Rio Grande 8624 and PE 1225 getting a little carpet time

Mr. C.Sam...that is a beauty!!!

Ole 736.

Elvis only left the building so he could get on the train to follow the Polar Express.

From the Fantasy RR.

Larry

Well here's mine out of my 2265W boxed set. (please excuse the mess lol)

My custom MTH RK 765 with our leader at the controls.....

A couple about to crash.....The one on the left is one my parents bought used at a church bazaar in the Chicago area in the early to mid '60s, and set up in the later '60s, when we lived in Muncie, a couple blocks south of the N&W, ex-Nickel Plate. The trains were boxed up when we moved from there in the early '70s (wrapped in copies of the NY Times with coverage of the Pentagon Papers court case).

Opened the boxes up about three years ago. Locomotive runs as well as could be expected, considering the abuse it received when I was a child - running it off the table in the basement to the concrete floor. It sort of wobbles and clanks along while pulling a few cars.

David

A 726 and one of my 736s, this one will probably go the way of the other 736s and become a Mountain or Northern but the lone 726 is sacrosanct!

Hello,

Mine are all boxed up now ,and in another state,

But if anyone wants to post a pic of the NY Yankee ones.

add one in  for me.

When I get back full time into trains ,those two will get new paint jobs,

Got those sets as a blow out sale for one of the Forum vendors, just for the loco's.

PS : big Yankee fan

Thanks 

Thanks for the photos of the old 726.  It may not be scale, it may not have the latest technological goodies, it may be nearly 70 years old, but, I think that's great looking engine.

736 hauling a 24 car train through the mountains.

mine is on a case:

Jon

My Williams version waiting for a repaint & tmcc.

I originally thought that I had no Berkshires to post pictures of.  This was because all my steamers are PRR engines and the PRR had no Berkshires. The above posts reminded me that I did have a Lionel 736; the one I inherited from my father-in-law. Here is a picture of it pulling my Lionel PRR 9500 passenger cars on Bill's layout (BANDOB).

Here's a Century Club Berk crossing a road:

Still think this one has a great whistle!

J White

The star:

The stand in:

Pete

Nice to see so many of the 726 and 536 Berks being posted here. When I was a boy, this was the most powerful and the best in the Lionel catalug in my mind. It was one that I always wanted. WE couldn't aford it in those days. It was great to see it in the Lionel Showroom. To go with my engine, I have the cars from the Work Train Set from 1946. Oh what nostalgia!

lots of great looking Berks guys.

Uh, whatever you do, DONT'T let Rich post his Berk here!!!