Would You Buy a Milwaukee Road 4-6-0 Northwoods Hiawatha?

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Looks pretty nice. Yeah, I'd buy one.

I would probably buy one if it became available, but it would be kind of low on my priority list. I'd much rather see an unshrouded Milwaukee Road Ten-Wheeler, or a K-class Prairie. 

It's a nice looking engine, so close in looks to the A Class that I think I'd rather have a streamlined Pacific, #151 or #152

I would not mind a streamlined pacific, but it looks a lot like the F7 Baltics. Kind of the way the 4-6-0 G class looks like the A class. The G class was local in central & northern Wisconsin where I am located.

I didn't know the MR had a streamlined 4-6-0.  Did any other RR have one?  I thought ten wheelers were pretty much demoted to secondary and branch lines by the 1930's

I'm in for one for sure. And sorry for wandering for topic a bit but, like SW Hi and Charlie I'd also be in for the ten wheeler, shrouded Pacific and Prairie. Most of all and at the top on my want list would be an N3 2-6-6-2 Mallet. Sense Weaver thru in the towel that leaves 3rd Rail and they NEVER have done any Milwaukee steam.  I'm very jealous of the folks that have articulated locos but only model Wisconsin railroads.

Milwrd 

With Weaver gone maybe someone else will pick up the baton and run some Milwaukee brass.

I hope so too Charlie.

Milwrd

The Milwaukee shrouded two G class 4-6-0s in the mid 1930s for service on the secondary lines in central and northern Wisconsin. The locos were originally built in the very early 1900s. I don't know if other roads streamlined any 4-6-0s.

I have a Milw streamlined 4-4-2.  That's enough streamliners for me.  I grew up 400 yards from a very busy Milwaukee Road line from Rondout to Fox Lake, IL and then to Walworth WI from 1946 to the end of steam.  I saw 0-6-0s, 4-6-0s, 4-6-2s, 2-6-2s, 2-8-2s, 4-6-4s and 4-8-4s.  They were all workaday black engines.  I NEVER saw a streamstyled steamer.  Even the Olympian Hiawatha was hauled by a diesel.  I would much rather have a plain G6 or G8 ten wheeler  than a streamlined ten wheeler.  In fact if one were being made now I'd grab one.    Odd-d  

I'd be in for one!  That was a very interesting little engine, bringing the streamlined era to the backwoods of Northern Wisconsin.  I can't imagine that any manufacturer or importer would actually do one in "0" gauge, so I've already started building my own using the shell of an old, 1935 era American Flyer Hiawatha.  They were quite a bit smaller than Lionel's Class A.

Interesting tid-bit:  From what we can tell, Milwaukee's #10 and #11 were the only two streamlined engines that were hand-bombers!  Fired the old fashioned way with a shovel (scoop).  They were sheathed by the "Road" in 1936 and 1937, but were already un-sheathed by about 1943 when the sheet metal was donated to the war effort.  In spite of their streamlined appearance, it's my understanding that they rarely ever saw 45mph.

Paul Fischer

Thanks for the information on the 10 and 11.  They were neat looking locomotives.  Sounds like there was nothing else like them.

I also am considering reworking a Lionel or AF for conversion. The Lionel shell will require more cutting than the AF but the details are better on the Lionel. I will have to see what shell comes up first for sale. Another option is to use a Pride Lines shell. The metal is much softer and easier to work with.

Yes, and I hope Lionel offers any Hiawatha again with Legacy.  

I would love to have this loco done by Lionel with Legacy. Maybe there is hope, Lionel did give us the scale A class 4-4-2 and the S3.

You will probably see the Class A with Legacy sooner or later. They have the tooling, but it's not like a J3 Hudson or a Challenger that you can rerun every couple of years and expect it to sell. 

Hopefully if they run it again with Legacy they will get the paint and the horn/whistle right. It's a very nice engine and the clamshell doors on the nose are kind of a cool feature to show off. Mine is the first Lionel engine I ever owned that smoked decently.