Next MTH catalog suggestion: Seaboard 2-10-0

Check this old thread out:

https://ogrforum.com/t...41#11003700281817441

I probably still have the photos somewhere but the link is still good.

There may have been 3 RRs that owned a Decapod like these and not heavily modeled RRs at that.  I'd love to see one but I doubt anyone is willing to make it.

Thanks Bob,  good stuff.  I have a Gainesville Midland boxcar (Buffalo Creek single sheathed),   nice to see that engine in such good shape.   Interesting it is the same of my builder photo above #533 originally.   Pretty neat.

My thinking is MTH has the tooling,  I have it in the ACL from the first run and I am sure MTH will do some more 2-10-0 in the future.   With the sharp blue boiler paint scheme,  I think it would be a hit.

Only thing I would really want more is a Florida East Coast M1a........

Mark

I'm in, oh, so much for one of these Decapods. Don't care who makes it (would prefer Lionel, for the command system, but I'll take either).

The Alabama, Tennessee and Northern had several, and some went to the Gainesville Midland. The AT&N ran them between Mobile and York, Alabama.

Gainesville Midland 2-10-0 #203 on display at the Southeastern Railway Museum started

life as AT&N #402.

These were not the famous "Russian Decapods" (the AT&N had some of these, too), but,

rather, a Standard Baldwin Light Decapod of which Baldwin sold many. (There was

also a Standard Heavy Decapod; the GM&O had some.)

Anyway, Baldwin Light Dec? Checkbook open and idling....sign me up.

That's a Baldwin catalog decapod, MTH has tooling for a Russian decapod. 

There is a difference.  Baldwin on top, Russian on bottom:

The Seaboard did also have some Russians, one still exists at Spencer:

Rusty

Very interesting Rusty........... thanks and good point,  not Russian.  So they could do the #544.  That will work for me.

Mark