Only ONE 2-4-4-2 on railroads?

Little River 148 was a 2nd 2-4-4-2 built after #126 was found not be able to handle the curves on the line.  148, built in 1909, ran until the road shut down and was scrapped in 1940.  There a number of great photos of it pulling various passenger trains into the mountains and by all accounts was a workhorse for the road.  

 

Bob

I'd love to have one of these from Lionel.  If they made a couple of different road numbers, I'd get a pair to double head.

 

Google is your friend.  Two more:

 

Rusty

I, too, would love to see one in O scale 3-rail, but I'm not holding my breath.

Even better, a 2-4-4-2 and 2-4-4-2T double headed.

Don't think that a "2-4-4-2T" was ever produced.

I guess it'd be more proper to call it a 2-4-4-6T, unless that really is a tender on #7.

 

It's a tender.  Not everyone uses a pair of 4 or 6 wheel trucks.

 

And here's another view.  Now in #4's clothing on the Glennbrook Vintage Railway, Aukland City, New Zealand.

Rusty

Thanks...that looks like a close-coupled four wheel tender on the New Zealand #7.

Somebody above said the Little River's version was scrapped?  I'd heard that it was under restoration in the Northwest?  I have seen the Little River's other unusual, for a logging road, small Pacific recently on a tourist road in SW Michigan, so it survives

and was operating. (I now wonder, if tracking problems made the road's first 2-4-4-2

unworkable, that is the reason they bought a Pacific with more guide wheels)

If you can stand to own a tinplate version, one is made by ETS.

Little River had TWO 2-4-4-2's, #126 and #148.

 

Here's the story.  You have to be a subscriber to the magazine to read it, but it does exist.  It's actually former Little River 126, their first 2-4-4-2 built in 1908.

 

http://trn.trains.com/news/new...fter-nearly-60-years

 

It's the 126 that had tracking trouble on the Little River and wound up on the west coast.

 

2-4-4-2 #148 was built in 1909 (I believe the drivers were spaced closer together than the 126's) and was successful on the Little River.  #148 went to the great roundhouse in the sky in 1940.

 

Rusty

 

 

...and here's the O gauge model from a few years back.

 

 

Wow - what a neat locomotive.  I'm going to take a stab and guess that #7 was a wood burner, with the big stack and short tender.  There must have been a ready wood supply by the route.  One hundred per cent guessing.  I like it anyhow.

Thanks, again.  I knew there had been two Little River 2-4-4-2's, but had assumed

it was the last one that survived.  As for O scale models, I have seen that and an

HO model, and have heard there were at least two of the HO ones offered.

The Deep River 2-4-4-2 #126, also known as Skookum, is undergoing restoration at the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad (OCSR) in Garibaldi, OR, just North of Tillamook. It is Hoped that She will be running in 2017.

 

Doug

Is that New Jersey Custom Brass?  Sure is beautiful.  Does it do 36" radius?  I've had thoughts of getting one and adding center rail rollers...  sorry!

If that would run on the track it is pictured on above, I would already own one.

I'd almost venture into brass to get my hands on one, as long as I could 3R it.

The "NJ" in "NJ Custom Brass" does not stand for New Jersey", as the two partners lived on Long Island, NY, but instead for Nick and Jack, the names of the partners.

 

Stuart

 

 

I, too, have certainly thought about three-railing one every time, the few times, I

have seen an O scale one...but all I've dared to to that to in brass so far is a couple

of railbuses.  I'd do a gas electric, too, IF I picked up one cheap....but steam and

drivers...I'm chicken.

Certainly an interesting locomotive - a sort of duplex-drive Mikado for tight curves? A friend got an old brass model of one in HO scale and fixed it up nice.

 

The prototypes were all compound operation, it appears.