and he notes -

There were no FP7 B units. Roads that had them used a regular B unit 
for extra power. Southern had 20 FP7s and usually operated them in 
pairs. They had F3 B units which could have been used with FPs but I 
believe they had no F7 B Units.

Raleigh in Maine


At 03:24 PM 11/23/2007, Tom Hawley wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:gftolhurst%40aol.com>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>. . . . . . . the Southern Railway F7's are really gorgeous, . . . . . . .
>. .
> > > > > > > >
>Agreed, and maybe some of you who know the Southern well can fill me in on
>something. American Models makes a Southern FP7 that bears the same number
>(6133) as the extant one in Spencer NC. I sold one, along with a B unit, at
>the Fall S Fest, and the buyer appeared happy, took them and ran them on the
>layout they had there.
>
>I was able to include with the sale a picture of the real one that I had
>picked up at the museum in Spencer, to validate the realism of the A unit.
>But I had to be honest and tell him I knew nothing about the authenticity of
>the B unit. Did Southern even have B units, and would they have run with
>FP7 units?
>
>See 
><http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showphoto.php/photo/63752>http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showphoto.php/photo/63752
>
>and 
><http://www.americanmodels.com/_photos/dxf715.jpg>http://www.americanmodels.com/_photos/dxf715.jpg
>
>Tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
>
>.
>
>


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