Train Master - reference thread

Wouldn't it have been nice if someone had thought to save a couple of those for posterity.  Look great at the N&W museum in Roanoke.

Paul Fischer

I agree, Paul. There's only one that I know of - it's a Canadian Pacific Train Master; and, it's displayed in a museum located in Montreal, Quebec(Canada).

I'm curious to see how close my new MTH model will be, to the prototype?

I thought a thread like this would be good for comparison purposes.

Rick

rick,

lackawanna ran them short hood forward to save on turning the engine at the end of the line. they did that with the train master's and the passenger GP7's on the commuter run's.

Just think we ALMOST had N&W 173. She was intact at Roanoke in'81, when we lens'd her.  We were told by the NRHS crew that she was earmarked to be saved for the museum.  Next thing you know, the old N&W curse had struck again!  The official story we heard was that she had "gotten lost in the shuffle"....that might fly with some low information foamers, but sure doesn't fit the paradigm.  Especially after the loss of three N&W Y6 mallets in the mid '70s.  I smell a big dose of personal factors here, which may become public knowledge in my lifetime, or mebby not!

Thanks, Pete. I guess in one direction it must have been a pain; with the controls and seating...

Too bad, Jay; the N&W's were some of the coolest looking Train Masters.

Rick

Thanks for your contribution, Dave.

Rick

My pleasure !   Happy to share ...  easier to share online than setting my FM collection up at train shows !!  

The ads are framed and look much better in person ...