BR&P: Info on mallets

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RJR posted:

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I know how to use Wikipedia...

I was asking for information on the mallets, not on the railroad.

Not much on the BR&P engines except the book I have says they were ALCOs and ended their days around Indiana Co., Pa.  There are photos but that is all.  I wonder if the B&O museum would have any info ??

Thanks Jim! I'll see what the B&O museum has.

I live south of Butler and traveled western Pa.  The BR&P always interested me. Another successful RR that was taken over and sucked dry.  Good luck.  Not much info out there on the BR&P.  Maybe in Punxsutawney ??

Three rail 2-8-8-2s?  I would think that one is easy. 

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Dave,  

Check out the two volume set of books, Articulated Steam Locomotives of North America, bu Bob LeMessena.  One volume will do.  

ChipR

Dave

Those were big mallets!  The BR&P designs predate the USRA and had slide valves for the low pressure cylinders.  However, modesl of the USRA locomotives may be your best starting points.  The Lionel Legacy 2-6-6-2 would make a nice operating locomotive and you could modify and detail it to suit your needs.  Lionel has not done their USRA/Y-3 2-8-8-2 yet with legacy.  MTH has made several production runs of USRA 2-8-8-2s.

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

http://www.steamlocomotive.com/chesapeake/?page=bo

Dave:

Here's a page which offers some good historical information regarding the BR&P 2-6-6-2s. Interestingly, following the B&O's acquisition of the BR&P, the B&O performed little in the way of modifications to the locomotives and they stayed primarily in their old home territory. David Mainey's book "Baltimore & Ohio Steam In Color" contains some nice views of these locomotives in it.

http://www.american-rails.com/kk.html

Good luck,

Bob

Here is an interesting link to some of the BR&P's car ferry operations; mostly pics. Not much text.  The mallet (although USRA tooling) is a very interesting offering from Lionel. I've been trying to read up on this railroad myself and may try to get one of these engines. 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/...s/72157623047437018/

Look for a book by the late Paul Pietrak called the "BR&P". It is out of print but copies can be found on eBay...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Buffa...5:g:EdMAAOSwjXVavD27 

There are chapters about the locomotives and the shops in East Salamanca, where they received heavy maintenance. 

The BR&P was a money making venture right up until it was purchased by the B&O. The B&O bought the railroad because they needed a portion of their mainline near Pittsburgh to complete another route to Chicago. The BR&P stock holders saw a chance to cash in and took it, in so many words...

Tom