and he notes - Dick, you got me curious - I checked my own library and found a drawing of a Reading Pacific in MR "Steam Locomotives" Vol 1, not the Atlantic. So much for my once sharp memory!
There is a site with photos of the 4-4-4 as built - http://www.northeast.railfan.net/rdg_steam.html Scroll down to that wheel arrangement. One photo appears on this page of the loco as an Atlantic - (scroll down to No. 350): http://www.northeast.railfan.net/phil_reading.html Only four of them were constructed at Reading's shops in 1915 as 4-4-4s to provide stability at high speeds. However the experiment was a failure and all were converted to Atlantics within a year. Except for the Cole (or Hodges, I forget which is which) trailing truck and removal of the extended ash pan necessitated by the four wheel trailing truck, the 4-4-2 was identical. Not much was added over the years, power reverse, air tanks and cooling coils which meant raising the running boards, etc. It's interesting that Gilbert selected such an obscure locomotive for their prewar "3/16" 0 Gauge" American Flyer line. By the time it was introduced in S Gauge after WWII, the prototype locos were already withdrawn from service, but the model was sold for another 15 years! Plans for the locomotives apparently do not exist but the RDG 4-6-2 in the "Steam Locomotive" plan book is similar to the in shape to the Atlantic boiler, firebox, cab, front end, pilot and trailing trucks and placement of appliances so a credible drawing could be made with one less driver and a shorter boiler. If I ever get my scanner running again, I might give it a try. Of course, time permitting too! Raleigh At 02:44 AM 1/6/2005, Richard Karnes wrote: >I checked the Mobley Library index. There are no RDG 4-4-2 "S" scale >plans in MR between 1937 and 1965. So I did a search on all Model >Railroader magazines for plans in any scale. There are no Reading >4-4-2 locos that aren't camelbacks. > >Railroad Model Craftsman lists six issues with Reading atlantics: a >five-part series on building one in O scale in 1934 (but no plans), and a >photo story in 1945. > >The S Gaugian article in Jan/Feb 1998 has a plan for the locomotive as >originally configured (a 4-4-4), but there is no tender plan. > >Dick Karnes, Librarian >Russell M. Mobley Memorial Library >NASG Inc. > > > >The poll results are in....... To REPLY to the list, use REPLY ALL, to >reply to the sender, use REPLY. I do NOT know if this works on all e-mail >software, but it works on some of the most common ones. > >Change your membership, change your message settings, use our CALENDAR, >view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > The poll results are in....... To REPLY to the list, use REPLY ALL, to reply to the sender, use REPLY. I do NOT know if this works on all e-mail software, but it works on some of the most common ones. Change your membership, change your message settings, use our CALENDAR, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
