Dear Peter,
I know our ex-LIRR engineer Howie would have loved that as he fired
several different classes of H's. But we thought the B&O would look a
bit more generic and if you squint, you can see those other roads (you
do not have to squint so much as to miss that center rail in "O"). We
considered the B&O E-24 (which the PRR also had), but I thought the
domes did not look as modern as the E-27. The funny thing was picking
out numbers for our models. Although the B&O had almost 500 E-27s, by
the time WWII ended, they had been retrofitted so many times that it
was hard to find 2 that looked exactly the same. The B&O converted
about 100 of these into L-2 0-8-0s. Then there was the head end
brakeman. Road engines after the war had to had a third seat added to
the cab for the head end brakeman. This made the fireman's cab side
different. Originally, these had a single air pump on the fireman's
side. At some point, either a 2nd air pump was added or a compound
pump. And the piping...each engine was piped a little different. So
we tried to find as many photos as possible of both sides of the
engine to pick the 3 numbers out that we needed for our B&Os.
Don
On Jun 1, 2011, at 12:28 PM, Peter Vanvliet wrote:
> So, Don, why did you not proceed with a PRR version of the 2-8-0? Are
> there more B&O modelers in S than PRR modelers?
>
> - Peter.
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