Poll: Are Any Members Interested in Modeling Any NC&StL ?

I have an Atlas VO1000 ordered and hope to find a Lionel NC&StL 4-8-2 as soon as funds allow after their arrival.

Steam era, yes.

I have requested a NC&StL 4-8-4 Dixie over the years, but no luck. Not surprising, but so many other things of a far more "oddball" nature have been offered and built that it got really annoying. H**l, there's even one preserved in Nashville, for Pete's sake - though in its fairly uglied-up, de-streamstyled form. And the NdeM ran essential copies.

Still. I'm afraid that the Lionel 4-8-2 is as close as we are ever going to come to any pre-L&N-Dixie Line steam. I do applaud Lionel for offering the 4-8-2. though. If I had less stuff, I'd get one.

As a cheat, the NC leased some Gulf, Mobile & Ohio USRA Mikes in the early 50's, so you could run come of those....

D500 posted:

 

As a cheat, the NC leased some Gulf, Mobile & Ohio USRA Mikes in the early 50's, so you could run come of those....

That's a thought. Did Lionel make a GM&O USRA Mikado, preferably Legacy?

I was fortunate to find an Atlas Steam Era Classic ACF 70 Ton Covered Hopper in NC&StL made exclusively for Hobby Station (in Kentucky, I believe). It is very nice and seems die-cast.

D500 posted:

 

I have requested a NC&StL 4-8-4 Dixie over the years, but no luck. 

I would go for one of those. The only thing I have right now is an Atlas O 40' boxcar. Not a lot of NC&Stl out there. 

D500 posted:

Steam era, yes.

I have requested a NC&StL 4-8-4 Dixie over the years, but no luck.

I would love one too. Looking over my inventory, I have six pieces. 2 Lionel, 2 Atlas, and 2 Weaver.

I would like to see a set of NC&StL F units.  Hobby Station also did a special run of Atlas O NC&StL pulpwood cars.

Neal Jeter 

I wonder if the restoration of NC&StL #576 might initiate some O-gauge manufacturers to produce some NC&StL equipment.

Tom, do you believe you have all O-gauge NC&StL boxcars that were made? And no MTH...?

I'm fond of the NC&StL, because it was my Dad's home town railroad (Camden, Tennessee), but I have a Santa Fe layout.  As a retired railroader, I have a lot of respect for the pre-1957 NC&StL.  It was a well-run and well-operated railroad.

I think that it was a stroke of genius that they purchased steam generators in all F3B and F7B units, thus eliminating the need for a separate group of passenger engines.

I like the NC and St L and L & N and have several of the MTH passenger cars and now thinking of trying to purchase some E-8 engines. Rode the City of Memphis as a youth and really enjoyed the trips between Nashville and Memphis where I spent many summers.

Tom Morris posted:

D500 posted:

Steam era, yes.

I have requested a NC&StL 4-8-4 Dixie over the years, but no luck.

I would love one too. Looking over my inventory, I have six pieces. 2 Lionel, 2 Atlas, and 2 Weaver.

Tom:

I’ve got the same Lionel NC&StL boxcar as the one in your top picture - the only NC&StL piece of rolling stock in my collection, unfortunately.

I always have a chuckle when I see the box for this car.  The end flap refers to it as”North Carolina & St. Louis”.

And; to respond to the OP’s thread question; heck yeah I’d be interested in NC&StL stuff.  I live within 25 minutes of the former NC&StL line between Chattanooga and Atlanta and enjoy watching trains from the old station platform in Kennesaw from time to time.

Curt

I have a boxcar of that railroad.Given that this railroad suffers from being looked over.Just like the seaboard air line rr.For this reason I would not hold my breath.

Lionlman posted:

Hobby Station also did a special run of Atlas O NC&StL pulpwood cars.

Neal Jeter 

Were these bulkheaded flat cars? Were these Atlas cars from their Trainman series or Steam Era Classics or MasterLine?

Do you know if Hobby Station requested any other NC&StL freight cars from Atlas?

TM Terry posted:

D500 posted:

 

As a cheat, the NC leased some Gulf, Mobile & Ohio USRA Mikes in the early 50's, so you could run come of those....

That's a thought. Did Lionel make a GM&O USRA Mikado, preferably Legacy?

There have been Light USRA 2-8-2's, of course, as well as GM&O steam offered. I do not recall if the Lionel GM&O/USRA Mike graph lines crossed. I have lettered a couple for the GM&O. K-Line TMCC/Lionel Light USRA's are good, and decals can be found, so you might try that. Lionel Legacy/GM&O, I don't think so. MTH PS2/3, yes.

eBay might give you some insight as to what's out there relative to this.

I have both Lionel box cars as well.  I ordered the Atlas VO-1000 and I would like to see a model of the 576.  I am interested in the NC&Stl since it used to serve the nearby towns of Huntsville, Alabama, Fayetteville, Tennessee, and Capshaw, Alabama.  The railroad used steam-powered ferries to transfer trains at the end of the Huntsville line across the Tennessee river to Guntersville, Alabama, and points south.

I just talked with the owner of Hobby Station in Elizabethtown, KY. He has quite a few Atlas Trainman NC&StL Boxcars available. As far as I know he has two different road numbers.

I purchased NC&StL covered hopper road number 49141 (I already had road number 49144). He has very few NC&StL ACF 70 Ton Covered Hopper Cars left. These were the second run Atlas cars specially for Hobby Station as NC&StL.

He doesn't know if he has any NC&StL bulkhead flat cars, but will check his warehouse. These were the first run Atlas cars specially for Hobby Station as NC&StL, so most have reached their end user.

I hope I have not violated any forum rules in sharing this information with those of us interested in NC&StL equipment.