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So Far we Have

UP 844

UP 3985

UP 4014

SP 4449

ATSF 3751

NKP 765

NW 611

PM 1225

The Road 261

C&0 614

That are in service for private excursions

(Please don't get mad at me if I miss your locomotive just made this list off the top of my head).

 

Now what I mean by excursion Locomotives, I mean anything from the Grand Canyon Railroad to Santa Fe 2926 and Santa Fe 5000. So any locos that run for Railroad Museums or getting restored in operational status in the near future.

 

I would like Santa Fe 2926 rebuilt as Railking Loco or Premier Loco. Very nice Loco.

 

What other Loco would you like to see built as a model? 

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Only two would get my money - but I would buy both:

 

1 - Savannah and Atlanta (bought from the Florida East Coast way back when); I've ridden behind it; will haul boogie - running late, we were passing everything on I-10 heading back into Mobile - except the rail fans. 1970's. (This would also make a nice generic early Light Pacific model for innumerable re-lettered offerings - lots of roads had "these"):

 

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2 - Former GM&N #425/GM&O #380, now disguised as BM&R 425 (it's blue?). I would be all over it, so fast. I do appreciate that this loco that used to run in and out of Mobile still exists and still runs, but if they offered it, I would "backdate" it to it's earlier paint/lettering - if not also offered that way. 

 

This loco is well-known and of a size that many layouts could handle it - it's "just" a Pacific. I do believe that it would be a modest (profitable) success.

 

It's similar, but it's not a USRA (more modern in some ways - and the boiler is slimmer, more lanky) - so no sneaky USRA re-paints will get my money - but, like the 750, above, the tooling could go generic, later,

 

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Originally Posted by Tim Lewis:

So Far we Have

UP 844

UP 3985

UP 4014

SP 4449

ATSF 3751

NKP 765

NW 611

PM 1225

That are in service for private excursions

(Please don't get mad at me if I miss your locomotive just made this list off the top of my head).

 

Now what I mean by excursion Locomotives, I mean anything from the Grand Canyon Railroad to Santa Fe 2926 and Santa Fe 5000. So any locos that run for Railroad Museums or getting restored in operational status in the near future.

 

I would like Santa Fe 2926 rebuilt as Railking Loco or Premier Loco. Very nice Loco.

 

What other Loco would you like to see built as a model? 

how many more locos do you or any of us need? feeling  -Jim

Originally Posted by D500:

 

 

 

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2 - Former GM&N #425/GM&O #380, now disguised as BM&R 425 (it's blue?).

 

This loco is well-known and of a size that many layouts could handle it - it's "just" a Pacific. I do believe that it would be a modest (profitable) success.

 

It's similar, but it's not a USRA (more modern in some ways - and the boiler is slimmer, more lanky) - so no sneaky USRA re-paints will get my money - but, like the 750, above, the tooling could go generic, later,

 

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Yep, this is the one I'd bite on. 

Another good candidate would be the A&WP 290 - a star of the early NS Steam Excursions and also of the movie "Fried Green Tomatos"
(The only reason I watch that movie).

I'm told she's identical to a Southern Railway PS-4 so all Lionel would have to do is paint their model black instead of green and there you have it.

Another 2 locomotives I would like to see are the Southern 630 and the Southern 4501 in black, especially in the MTH Premier line.

3rd Rail just released the Strasburg 475 in Strasburg and N&W schemes. I doubt you'd find a more accurate version anywhere else!

 

Personally, I'd love to have a command control equipped saddle tank steamer - an 0-4-0 or 0-6-0. Most of the steam I've been around has been small saddle tankers. 

 

I'm about an hour from the B&O Museum which occasionally operates a very large Porter 0-4-0T from St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington DC. 

 

I've also fired the Lehigh Valley Coal 126, an 0-6-0T many times. 

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Originally Posted by Tim Lewis:

So Far we Have

UP 844

UP 3985

UP 4014

SP 4449

ATSF 3751

NKP 765

NW 611

PM 1225

The Road 261

That are in service for private excursions

(Please don't get mad at me if I miss your locomotive just made this list off the top of my head).

 

Now what I mean by excursion Locomotives, I mean anything from the Grand Canyon Railroad to Santa Fe 2926 and Santa Fe 5000. So any locos that run for Railroad Museums or getting restored in operational status in the near future.

 

I would like Santa Fe 2926 rebuilt as Railking Loco or Premier Loco. Very nice Loco.

 

What other Loco would you like to see built as a model? 

Santa Fe 2926 has been offered as a Railking model,twice,I think. The Santa Fe 2900 class was offered by MTH in at least 4 different road numbers 2903,2912,2921 (all PS-1) and 2919 (PS-2).The MTH Premier models are full of errors,namely,the side rods and marker lights.

Lastly,3rd Rail offered a beautiful brass 2900 class 4-8-4 a couple of years ago that got all the details right.

Originally Posted by M J Breen:

 

Another 2 locomotives I would like to see are the Southern 630 and the Southern 4501 in black, especially in the MTH Premier line.

I have been asking for the 630 for a couple years via e-mails. Also I talked to them at a show back in January. I told them I would take Premier or Railking Imperial. With all of the Consolidations they make it would not be hard to do. Every time there are 2-8-0s in the catalog they have four versions all lettered for the Pennsylvania. By now the guys that model the Pennsy should have enough locos to last the next thousand years. How about a catalog with NO Pennsylvania?

Just pointing this out, Laidoffsick - your layout looks great, I thought it was a real photo for a good minute!

 

As for me, I would say Cuyahoga Valley Line #4070 Mikado from the Grand Trunk, but I'm already doing it myself with an MTH Premier Light Mikado.

 

That being said, not trying to be too greedy, I'd like to see the Nickel Plate #587 Mikado being done. All it needs is a Light Mikado with a modified pilot and number boards on top, coupled to a 765 Berkshire tender.

 

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 Burlington ran lots of “iron horse specials” in the early 1960s. In May, 1964, the railroad painted 4-8-4 locomotive 5632 gold to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its Chicago-Aurora line. On May 23, the locomotive pulled a train of 22 double-deck commuter cars filled with 3,500 passengers, the most ever carried in any American passenger train up to that point, and probably since then as well.

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Originally Posted by Dave Ripp.:

 Burlington ran lots of “iron horse specials” in the early 1960s. In May, 1964, the railroad painted 4-8-4 locomotive 5632 gold to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its Chicago-Aurora line. On May 23, the locomotive pulled a train of 22 double-deck commuter cars filled with 3,500 passengers, the most ever carried in any American passenger train up to that point, and probably since then as well.

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Sunset/3rd Rail offered this "special edition" model as well, more than 10 years ago, as part of the CB&Q O5 series 4-8-4 models (road numbers 5614, 5629, and 5632).

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Originally Posted by D500:

 

 

 

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2 - Former GM&N #425/GM&O #380, now disguised as BM&R 425 (it's blue?).

 

This loco is well-known and of a size that many layouts could handle it - it's "just" a Pacific. I do believe that it would be a modest (profitable) success.

 

It's similar, but it's not a USRA (more modern in some ways - and the boiler is slimmer, more lanky) - so no sneaky USRA re-paints will get my money - but, like the 750, above, the tooling could go generic, later,

 

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Yep, this is the one I'd bite on. 

Me too, but as for in what paint, let's wait until the new paint scheme is revealed in a few weeks to decide which it should be painted in.

MJ Breen -

 

Yes - how could I forget the A&WP 290? Too bad that they scrapped the sister WofA 190 back in the day (and those AWP/WofA big, big modern Lima-built Mikes

 

As for them/it being "identical" to a SOU Ps-4 4-6-2, they are not.

BUT! They were indeed intentionally built to the same essential specs, but they are more modern, built later, locos, than are the Ps-4's. They have cast pilots and a modern cast Delta trailing truck; smokebox front was often different - I think that it got switched around. I believe that there were other internal differences. Also, they were built by Lima, unlike the SOU locos.

 

Still, Ps-4 tooling with a Delta trailing truck, correct cast pilot and a smokebox front change would do very nicely as 190/290.

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I understand that the late Bill Purdy, head of SOU (later NS) Steam Program, offered to lease the 290 from the owners and paint it as a Ps-4 and run excursions with it, in place of/in addition to the 4501 2-8-2. They refused.

Actually I liked it better as AWP 290.  

 

 

 

Tim,

 

  Your list did not include PRR K4 1361. Although it's excursion life was short lived it did have one. Both Kline and Lionel have modeled 1361, I do not know if MTH has but my guess is they have done one too.

 

  As far as engines not made in O scale a BM&R 425 and Strasburg decapod #90 get my vote. In fact there was a post on what the next Vision line offering should be and my suggestion was a whole Strasburg excursion train pulled by #90. The set would have open air cars, coaches and a dinner just like the ones the Strasburg RR runs.

 

JohnB

   

I don't do 3-rail but a good model of SRR 630 would be extremely tempting for me anyway. My parents saw this engine daily as ET&WNC # 207 through the 50s and 60s. It's also the very first locomotive I ever got a cab ride on, at Chattanooga in 1982:

I'd think a model of the same loco as 207 would be a heck of a stretch:

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