A Pennsy Variant

Striking! Which Ball book, and what page?

I like it!

The Pennsyvania Railroad 1940s-1950s, pages 78 and 79. Check it out, it's quite a mongrel...I like it!

Bob

There is a strange picture of a Baldwin (BS10) switcher numbered 5916 on P.79 of Ball's

 PRR 1940s and 1950s.  But I don't think the locomotive is red.  It seems to be an off colored black because of the position of the sun. Or perhaps because of its age (built 1943) it's turned a rust color.  In any event, your beautiful model numbered 8790 is a Pennsy BS12.  Peter Weiglin's Pennsy Diesel book says nothing about any BS 12s or BS10s painted Tuscan red.   I certainly agree that red would have looked great on the PRR switchers and road switchers.

Lew Schneider

Excellent.  No, beyond excellent.  That will go verty well with your N8 cabin.

Lew, I think you looked at the correct pages 78 & 79,  the tuscan Baldwin is on the top of both pages....look again it very obvious and the text supports the paint job as well. Yes it is an S12, a yoder model I've had stashed away in a shoe box for few years. Once I saw that photo she was in my shop for a proper paint job!

Thanks John...it is pretty sharp if I say so myself.

Bob

Fantastic.  Thanks for sharing.

Ed

I've been meaning to ask for a while now, what this stands for.  I presume it's an acronym for the actual Pennsy color that is often mistaken for black but is technically dark, dark, dark, dark, green?

Please enlighten this rube.

Jim

Dark green locomotive enamel

Ahhh, never could decide what the LE stood for.  Thanks.

Jim

Bob,

The PRR definitely had a Tuscan Red Baldwin. For most of it's life it ran out of Meadows yard and later in the Camden area.

Speaking of a K4, there is also an elusive K4 that was purported to be painted in Tuscan Red, but there are no color photos of it found, only remarks on roster sheets.

That will teach me not to read Ball's text!!!  Surprised that Weiglin didn't discuss

the color in his book.  

Lew

Bob, what make of model is that?

Chris, It's a Rich Yoder.

Bob,

The engine looks great, and so does all the rest. Enough stuff there to keep it interesting, but not look cluttered.

Just curious, is your layout point to point of an around the walls loop?

Simon

Thank you Simon, I appreciate your good words. It is a loop approx 11’ x 24’ on a shelf that varies from 6” to 28” wide, and will eventually include a peninsula approx. 24” wide. The railroad was intended to be operated point to point, but recently gained that handy run around thanks to that 6” section in back of our washer/dryer.

Bob