Here is a few videos of the New MTH Reading & Northern Heavy Pacifics. I have both versions the Dark Blue is the new paint scheme of the R&N and was the uncataloged version. The Light Blue is the Cataloged version. Both have the same crew talk, and a great whistle that is quite haunting,. I have to get use to using the quillable whistle, this was my first time with this. Hope YUZ GUYZ like it.
Forgive me for hitting the wrong buttons on remote while trying to film. Rookie mistake, LOL!!!
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I’m curious. Is this Pacific the same type as the real 425?
Good review and video.
FWIW: I haven't mastered the DCS quillable whistle either.
Glenn Fresch posted:I’m curious. Is this Pacific the same type as the real 425?
No. The model is a USRA Light 4-6-2, while the real 425 was one of two identical locos built for the Gulf, Mobile and Northern RR (one of the predecessors of the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio, along with the Mobile and Ohio) in 1928. It became GM&O #580. I forget the number of the other loco, but it was 424 or 426, so far as I recall.
The 425 was a more modern loco than the one modeled; it had a front-end throttle, superheater, cast pilot and a cast Delta trailing truck. It was also a slimmer locomotive, which gives it a slightly "archaic" look, even though it's fairly modern.
Not much of a shot - builders photo of the 425; the tender logo (emulated on the 425 now, apparently - nice) said "GM&N The Road of Service". The GM&N ran N-S between Mobile and Jackson TN; it merged with the older and larger M&O, and ultimately reached Chicago..
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