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Steam Coaches..Got Photos?

CH colorado hirailerOGR Forum Member

Since one of the forum's monitors had kind comments about The Narrow Gauge and Shortline Gazette, let me refer you to the Jan/Feb. 2013 (and

Nov./Dec. 2012 issues, and their photos and articles on steam coaches.  I have looked for more info on the Peruvian and "Yankee Teapot" types of these since I saw a photo of one in the station at Vermont's Shelburne Museum. (that I would like more info on)

There isn't a snowball's chance one of these will appear commercially in

three rail...or even O scale two rail brass...I don't think any were offered in HO during the 1950's/1960's brass glory days.  Not even of the Baldwin steam car that just took First Place in G scale as a scratchbuild at the 2012 Narrow Gauge Convention.

But if you flip to page 7 "The Pigeon Hole" in the Jan/Feb 2013 issue, and

you have photos of these critters operating here in the U.S., I, and perhaps other, would like to see them thrown on here.

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CH colorado hirailerOGR Forum Member

That IS a more modern and streamlined steam coach than I even think, don't remember it, is in the Keilty books, although the "Besler" term rings a bell.

But if you refer to NG&SLG and those pictured, especially the 1875 "horizontal boilers sticking out of the front of a coach", with usual steam loco drivers, that is what I would like to see more of.  The Baldwin steam car I mentioned in my original post is in those books and elsewhere, as is the Alco, Unit-Stanley,  and several others...but not the above described early horizontal boiler critters. I'd like to see

American operated versions of those, that were in revenue use.  Similar critters were inspection engines.

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