Are there any Lionel, MTH, 3rd Rail, or Weaver NYC Articulated Models out there?

I've not seen a CORRECT one.

But they are out there?

Just curious, what articulated's did NYC operate?

Rod

Not sure but the picture I attached was one.

Did you look at the photo the original poster attached?

Not to my knowledge.

 HW, Did they (NYC) run Challengers? Could I just repaint one?? were there a different type like them?? (EM1?, etc)

 Seems funny that they skipped them??

that pic looks similar to a mallet??

Joe, I have seen pics of them. Like the OP said they were similar to the CC2 with no pilot ot trailing trucks. I assume they were used for heavy switching. Pretty homely like the NYC Shay. I suspect the market would be pretty small for these.

Pete

Well they are still cool in my book as NYC has always been one of my favorite railroads.

Nah, that would be too easy.

So that is an 0-8-8-0?

Interesting.

Rod

Yes, a compound articulated 0-8-8-0. No Challengers nor any other "big main line articulated locomotives" on the New York Central, as they didn't need them. The NYC wasn't advertised as "The Water Level Route" for nothing.

Here is a picture of another NYC articulated steamer a 2-6-6-2. I am trying to figure out which class this is, anybody out there have any ideas?

This one is like the first one and its' class is the NU-1a/c/e

MTH did make a NYC 2-8-8-2 Mallet RK 30-1319-1  Engine #9887. As to whether this engine is real or fictional check MTH web site description and/or NYC Historical wbe page

Larry S

 Wow, I would have sworn they did, thank you. I don't see any here:

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/nyc/nyc-steam.html

 just a test maybe:

http://www.steamlocomotive.com/2-6-6-2/?page=nyc

Looks like they just ran non-art mainly

The first link had a 0-8-8-0 in it.

The second link is were I got the 2-6-6-2 from.

Well, that 2-6-6-2 looks like mainline power, and not just for switching.  I wonder if

there is a list of all the roads that operated articulateds?...probably not, because a lot

of obscure little logging roads did..

I was surprised the Southern operated them...none at Spencer and I am guessing not

surviving...none ever chased me off the Floyd's Fork trestle when I was a kid..

If Lionel would make that, it would sure be a nice "change of pace" from all of the rehashed NYC offerings in O guage.

Used in The Berkshire Mountains on the B&A in the early 1900s. With only 57" diameter, the NYC was NOT about to be using them on the Water Level Route. 

The description I read on it said it was used on the B&A and then on the NYC.

Why doesn't someone make a New York Central cab forward shay, that would be really cool. Preferably the phase 2b version with the retrofitted Johnson rods on the tender truck boosters.

Okay, heres's the skinny; from Staufer's book:

The NYC had one 0-6-6-0, switcher (Alco, 1913); compound.

They had several class NE-2 2-6-6-2 (#1339 - 1348; Alco, 1921); these were road engines; compounds. Used in Pennsylvania mostly, I think - in areas that were

not very "water level rout-ish".

They had 14 or so 0-8-8-0 hump switchers (1913 - 1916 or so; Brooks); compounds.

That's it; the "Water Level Route" was just that, and seldom needed (relatively) large locos to move large trains at speed.

The NE-2 2-6-6-2 has been done in brass, in 2-rail. I have seen TWO of them on auction

in the last year - one of them missing the front engine; still expensive.

I wish that I would make myself learn how to post photos, because I have what is

probably the only 3-rail, O-scale NYC 0-8-8-0 NU-class hump switcher on the planet.

Had to build/bash it myself. It looks...right.  Big project; TMCC/RS; working front

electrocoupler; correct tender. Proud of it. I shaped the saddle-like sand dome from lead. 

See the top posted photo in this thread - I've got one on my layout. It works.

 Maybe it makes it extra special to have a fantasy DD35 NYC then???

http://www.lionel.com/Products/Finder/ProductDetail.cfm?ProductNumber=6-28369&expandBranch=0&Keywords=&CategoryID=496&RailLineID=New York Central&CatalogId=

 I always thought manufacturers just made the most popular NYC steamers. I figured if the B&O and others had big ones, NYC did. Wrong again.

I always wanted a NYC articulated engine and I just may have to do one myself, real or not.