Dick has a point: If one wants steam, then an old AF steamer is one low cost
possibility. Of course, AF has at least four railroad specific steamers: the
UP Northern, the Reading Atlantic albeit with extremely low drivers compared to
the prototype, the New Haven Pacific, and the PRR K5. Not much can be done to
rework them to look like a prototype for another railroad. Well, maybe the
Northern could be redone to look remotely like a Milwaukee Road S-1, possibly a
D&H Northern with smoke lifters, or maybe a Rock Island Northern. Any of those
reworkings would require a change in the tender. Ooops, I forgot the NYC
Hudson with low drivers.
That is another problem, the low drivers. The one that could be kitbashed
possibly is the Pacific--I'm not AF literate--that came out with a C&NW or a
MILW emablem on the tender. It's crude, but one might rework the front and add
detail to the boiler. One thing the tenders AF used looked more generic than
all the Lionel tenders back in the day when every tender they produced except
for those on switchers which were always PRR switchers had a NYC-look to them.
Tom
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