4-8-4 or 4-8-2 (Road Name)?

I don't think anyone is going to be able to help you with that link.  Clearly, with webmail, you have to login to view whatever you're talking about.

Hello gunrunnerjohn, please try the link again.  The first time I tried to open it I got the same message as you did but tried again and it works.

Thank you

Bart Zuccala

Tried it 5 times, didn't work for me either. Kept getting the same message gunrunnerjohn posted.

it works for you because it is your email client.

you are probably trying to post a frame which usually doesn't work.  if the web page/ mail has pictures, try right-clicking on the picture itself and save.  then you can simply add the picture as an attachment.

Let me try this again.. Thanx to everyone

Denver & Rio Grande Western.

It's a "Northern." (4-8-4)

Rusty

OK, THAT is a Denver & Rio Grande Western 4-8-4, i.e. 1700 series. M Class, if I remember.

Thanx guys, I should have recognized the herald on the tender; another beautiful steam engine.

Specifically that's an M-64 class.

Stuart

Weaver made a 3 rail brass model of this. Very nice looking locomotive.

Yes, It would show up at the Greenburg Train Show in Monroeville, PA  on occasion.

Cab detail was excellent.   Will check again at the next show this month

My Weaver M-64. It needs a de-whitewalling and some weathering. Runs well (TMCC, no cruise), 1-chuff sound, fixable. One day...

(I just noticed that my model and the prototype photo are both engine "1710".) 

BTW, to my knowledge, the DRGW referred to both their 4-8-2's and 4-8-4's as "Mountains", and did not use the term "Northern" for the 4-8-4's. These "nicknames" got tossed around a good bit. Some IC men referred to the 2-8-4's as "Big Mikes", and one road (I forget which) called both 2-10-0's and 2-10-2's "Decapods" (SP, maybe?).

So, If I would find this model at the show it would only have "one" chuff per revolution?

daylight - 

Yes, but it's a very nice chuff...

Seriously, yes. As I recall, it uses a rod from one of the crossheads that hits a microswitch when the crosshead moves forward (or backward - I forget), so of the 4 piston cycles (2 per side), only 1 hits the switch.

A better approximation would be to get a magnetic reed switch and rare earth magnet (see Modern Toy Train Parts' site) and mount this on a tender truck, a common upgrade technique. The same wiring can be used - route it through the new switch rather than the microswitch.

A 4-lobe cam on one of the axles - was that too much to ask?

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Also as I recall, some of these had green boilers, some black. Weaver offered both. Mine is black.

They are delicate around the running boards above the cylinders. Had to fix one of mine (epoxy; easy). 

Beautiful locos - real and model.