Northern Exposure - Show us your 4-8-4s!

Rusty

Two of my favorites... first, a NYC Niagara (as a NYC fan, an obvious choice )

And the classic SP GS4 Northern...

In the foreground, Nickel Plate Road Berkshire that I sold to the great Smokey Mountain RR in nearby Bryson City recently now has a huge division to roam. Rear track is a K-Line B&A Berk and below

While I am a Pacific fan at heart, I do have these three Williams Northerns.

Speaking of Berks, here is our K-Line based Berk now produced by Lionel. Very well detailed locomotive in B&M

Listing:

Burlington O-5 and O-5B

C&O J-3A

D&RGW M-68

GN S-1

GN S-1

GN S-2

GN S-2

GN S-2

GN S-2

Milwaukee S-3

N&W J

N&W J

NP A

NP A-1

NP A-2

NP A-3

NP A-4

NP A-5

NYC Niagara

NYC Niagara

RF&P

SF 2919

SF 3765

SP GS-4

UP FEF-2 silver stripe

UP FEF-2 yellow stripe

All very nice.  Now that you have a pair of 2-rail Northerns sneaking in, I shall add a few more.  My Daylight GS-2 is in 17/64, and features a silver-soldered copper boiler of almost 1/8' wall.  You would think I was trying to build a live steamer!

Main frame started out 1"x1" brass bar, back when brass wasn't $30 a pound.  Tender trucks are nickel silver, from my patterns.

Let me see if I can find one more Northern:

This is an All Nation Mountain, converted to a GS-1.  Boiler was extended fore and aft, a new frame was machined, and an Adams tender was attached, with my specialty riveted sides.  Note the BoxPok main driver.  It has a Henry Pearce gearbox, which has to be among the best ever.

I have a few more, including a converted Lionel FEF, and somewhere lost in my photos is a Rock Island monster.

My iPad showed only two of Sam's 2-rail beauties in the post above mine.  Those deserve a coffee table book!  Very nice!  I will look again tomorrow when I am more awake.

Stunning photos of some fantastic Northerns!  Thank you all for sharing

I'm sure there's more out there.  Would love to see some contributions from the traditional / semi-scale crowd too. Let's see 'em! 

Here is a brass Williams Northern converted to TMCC running on the G&O garden railroad.  NH Joe

I don't have a large collection of steam (too expensive), but I have two Northern's in my collection -- ATSF #2913 and CNW H1 #3018. I may get an ATSF #3751 if I can find one at a reasonable price.

The Pennsy did not have any 4-8-4 steamers.  Would a 4-4-4-4 do?  You could look at it as a 4-(4-4)-4.

I'd say the T1 counts ... kind of!   Here is mine leading a very prototypical consist.

OK... @CAPPilot and @GG1 4877 win today’s creative counting prize. Two beautiful (if honorary) 4-8-4’s

If you're 'counting' the PRR T-1's then I have one more

@samparfitt posted:

If you're 'counting' the PRR T-1's then I have one more

What scale are your locomotives?  HO?  All very nice!  My HO T1 is a Bowser.

Thanks Jonathan,

They are all HO.

My OGR thread:

https://ogrforum.com/...eat-northern-railway

My videos:

https://www.youtube.com/user/s...rt=dd&shelf_id=0

@samparfitt posted:

If you're 'counting' the PRR T-1's then I have one more

It's funny. Someone had asked about my Pennsy S2 Turbine. I always thought is was pretty much a Northern on steroids because of the extra firebox support from the three-axle trailing truck and the need for more turn-in support requiring the three-axle lead truck.

@AGHRMatt posted:

It's funny. Someone had asked about my Pennsy S2 Turbine. I always thought is was pretty much a Northern on steroids because of the extra firebox support from the three-axle trailing truck and the need for more turn-in support requiring the three-axle lead truck.

Matt,

Well, if that's true, I'm adding these two!

PRR S-1 and S-2!

The S1 was designed as a 6-4-4-6 so maybe it should not be here.  The S2, however, was initially designed as a 4-8-4 but restrictions during WWII on light steel alloys increased the S2's weight until six-wheel leading and trailing trucks were needed.  So it should be an honorary 4-8-4.

Here is Santa Fe 3751 on the G&O.  This is an early brass 3rd Rail model that was purchased used.  It was converted to TMCC.  The passenger cars are aluminum Williams 21 inch cars.  NH Joe

This one was just 'delivered';

UP FEF-3:

https://ogrforum.com/...2#158111058940664132

Here is UP 844 pulling the 49er on the G&O.  This engine belongs to a friend.  It is an early brass Williams model running in conventional mode.  I don't know who made the 49er Special passenger cars.  NH Joe

The photos above show UP 844 crossing the original Norris Falls bridge.  The original bridge was destroyed when a tree fell on the G&O on December 30, 2014.  The second Norris Falls bridge that was made from wood is currently being replaced by a galvanized steel bridge.  The G&O crew plans to have the new bridge operational sometime this spring.

My Lionel Union Pacific FEF-3 844 pulling the Cheyenne Frontier Days Excursion Train and my Lionel Santa Fe 3751 Northern pulling the 1992 Employee Appreciation Train.

Legacy GS4 -Vision Line GS1 -Vision Line GS4- Legacy GS6

Here are three of my favorite 4-8-4’s