Nahma Northern Railroad. Nahma is in upper Michigan. Locomotive No. 5 Baldwin 2-6-2 which was built in December, 1912. Bulders plate #38846. . My wife's grandfather operated this train. Has this been made and if not what is the chance that Lionel or MTH will produce one.
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anyone?
Never seen a Lionel or MTH version....maybe an obscure brass model or at least a 2-6-2 Baldwin. One of the big three making it....don't hold your breath.....Not a HOT period for the manufactures. WbB brought us the 4-6-0 mainly I feel because they had on in On30, G and HO so it was not a lot of work to do another. I like the turn of the century era but does not seem real popular with the standard gauge O scale 3 rail crowd. I'd like a WbB loco with just a little more detail than the 4-6-0.
i would tend to say, no. mostly based on the small audience a model like this would have. at least the township is taking good care of this locomotive as a 2010 photo of #5 now under a roof seems to indicate...
what i would do is look up the critical measurements at steamlocomotives.com...
http://www.steamlocomotive.com/prairie/?page=nn
and if anything off-the-shelf comes close, ...kit-bash away.
You have to look at all the Lionel and MTH catalogs from the past 20 years to see if anything like it has been produced. Then determine if one is available that can be lettered like that.
Andrew
I'd really like to see Lionel, MTH, 3rd Rail, Atlas, Weaver, (any others?) build some more smaller engines. I'm a sucker for a 2-6-2, a 4-6-0, a 2-8-0, particularly in more modern trim. These old "teakettles" which were built in the early part of the century, but many actually continued in service right until the end of steam in the mid 1950's.
Most of us don't have the curves or the space to run 4-8-8-4 Big Boys or other huge articulated engines, but these little engines were used everywhere and are very correct on the curves and clearances of most of out layouts. Every Railroad had some of them, and they can, correctly, be lettered for most of our favorite RR's.
I have 4-8-4's and 4-6-4's which are very nice, but to operate a little 2-8-0 with a "way" freight is the true spirit of railroading in the 20th century. Being an older guy, I have wonderful memories of watching these little workhorses doing their jobs.
Paul Fischer
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The 1930's Ford grills are great styling, even on a train
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It would have been nice. Gosh darn that Market.
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