Berkshires

I will be riding behind the 765 tomorrow at CVSR.  I also just added an MTH 765 to run with my custom CVSR set of cars.   Hazards of seeing one at the dealer while 765 is running on local rails this month.

 I recall 765 made some freight runs in the past.  One was a proposed Coca Cola ad done by Kelly.  I have seen other freight consists with the 765 in its excursion years.  I'm sure definitive answers will soon be posted by Rich.

The photo was taken by me at Monroeville Ohio September 28, 2015.  The 765 was held at Monroeville for a while as the 765 headed westbound after its annual CVSR Steam In The Valley runs.

VistaDomeScott posted:

I will be riding behind the 765 tomorrow at CVSR.  I also just added an MTH 765 to run with my custom CVSR set of cars.   Hazards of seeing one at the dealer while 765 is running on local rails this month.

 I recall 765 made some freight runs in the past.  One was a proposed Coca Cola ad done by Kelly.  I have seen other freight consists with the 765 in its excursion years.  I'm sure definitive answers will soon be posted by Rich.

The photo was taken by me at Monroeville Ohio September 28, 2015.  The 765 was held at Monroeville for a while as the 765 headed westbound after its annual CVSR Steam In The Valley runs.

I put you down in the like berkshires.I also have a lionel tmcc berkshire C&O type with the lowered head light.

Definitely a Berkshire fan.  One of my favorites though not a realistic model is my Lionel Conventional Classics 726.  The whistle on that sold me on one.  

My favorite locomotive was the NYC Hudson...until I got the chance to ride behind Pere Marquette 1225. I am lucky she is only 45 minutes from my house. Now the PM Berks are at the top of my list and will be staying there.

Am very pleased with this Lionel/K-Line Berkshire recently acquired. Different prototype than most other Berks but has a certain charm of its own!

Well, yes, since the “Polar Express” locomotive in the film was based on (and used the actual sounds of) Pere Marquette no. 1225, I became a huge fan of those sibling Berks, which includes Nickel Plate Road no. 765.

But it goes further back than that. I was familiar with these Berks since my HO days as a kid nearly 50 years ago, thanks to Rivarossi models imported by AHM, and it’s part of my N scale collection thanks to another Rivarossi model as well as Bachmann’s more recent diecast versions. 

What my Lionel NKP 765 looked like as "delivered" from Lionel.  This too was fixed by James the repairman at The Little Choo Choo in Spencer, NC.

If you do not see the Lionel error take another look at VISTADOMESCOTT"s image above. 

PRRronbh posted:

What my Lionel NKP 765 looked like as "delivered" from Lionel.  This too was fixed by James the repairman at The Little Choo Choo in Spencer, NC.

If you do not see the Lionel error take another look at VISTADOMESCOTT"s image above. 

Boiler tube pilot instead of slat pilot.

Rusty

Rusty, that really is a difference hard to ignore!

c.sam posted:

Am very pleased with this Lionel/K-Line Berkshire recently acquired. Different prototype than most other Berks but has a certain charm of its own!

Love the exposed Coffin FWH. This type of FWH (named after the designer) was fairly common in US steam locos, but often - typically - sunken in the smokebox, so this look above did not occur that often. GM&O had some pretty big 2-10-0's, and 2 of them had the exposed Coffin.

One of the Southern's Ps-4 Pacifics was built with a Coffin FWH, but it was sunken - the somewhat longer smokebox is a giveaway. I forget the road number.

But the kicker is that some of the NYC J1 Hudsons were built with the Coffin FWH, including the Most Famous Hudson #5344. Imagine how different Lionel's 1937 4-6-4 would have looked if the NYC had hung the Coffin out over the front, as in the B&M Berk above.

Note the Coffin FWH piping at the front, above the running board, on my modified Wms die-cast scale J1e.

Fairly accurate custom GM&O 250-class decapod with exposed Coffin FWH:

Northern Pacific's Z-5 2-8-8-4 Yellowstones had two Coffin feed water heaters in the smokebox.

Stuart

My Southern Pacific Berkshire.  Matt