Rich, All, The Kansas City Mexico & Orient purchase in 1929 brought a lot more of foreign engines in the Santa Fe roster. Aside of the 2504,2506 and 2507 Class of 2-8-0's previously mentionned there were three more with the 2535, 2552, and 2559 Class. The later class have a complicated life, and were rare outside frame Std gage 2-8-0's, but seems to went from the NYC. More locos came with the Orient like the 2-6-0 of the 2526 Class, Alco foreigners in a Baldwin land, and the 2-10-0's of the 2554 and 2565 Class. Fortunately for me, modelling an Orient branch in southern Texas, the only class that could be modelled in S scale is the 2507 Class. The SHS 280 is a good basis to do a pretty close representation of those locos. It involve stripping the loco of all the parts, filling holes, doing scratch parts, etc...I've already done the ATSF standard cab in photoetched brass and some miscelaneous parts. I'am curently at the drawing stage for the tender fuel tank. Maybe it will be completed one day! But it's one of this scale beauty : do nearly all the things by yourself like in the good ol'days (particularly when you are a Santa Fe steam fan : nothing in plastic + nothing in brass = nothing at all!). To conclude just a little quizz : Is there another railway company, apart from the Santa Fe, that unite our easterner siamese twins-PRR and NYC-(apart from the glorious Penn Central and scrap dealers!) motive power under one umbrella ? Let us have a dream : PRR L1's and NYC Consolidation side by side in a yard waiting for higball to rush west. The mud brown and the dirt grey have disappeared under a fresh new coat of yellow, red and silver. The eastern war will be definitively over with such a smart livery! Just some thoughts... <G> That's all for now, this being exceeded my crude english knowledge. Keep Rockin'
Philippe Cousyn in frozen France Modelling the little Sonora,Tx District of the Tiny Santa Fe Railway in 1948-55. Selon richgajnak <[email protected]>: > --- In [email protected], fpcou...@... wrote: > > > > The ATSF owned two other > > foreign road classes of locos with the 2-8-8-2 1790 class from the > N&W bought in > > 1945 and sold in 1948 to the Virginian, and the former Boston and > Maine 2-8-4 of > > the 4193 Class. > > Also, the Santa Fe picked up third-hand 22 former NYC 2-8-0's with the > purchase of the Kansas City, New Mexico & Orient in 1929. They became > the Santa Fe's 2504, 2506 and 2507 class 2-8-0's. > > Rich G. > > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> 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/
