Not to beat the matter to death, but Don is confirming what I had already
suspected about his marketing decision.
A PRR H8/9/10 is a splendid animal (and I may well buy a kit if BTS completes
that project) but there is no question
of its identity: it will never be anything except PRR. Only a very few were
ever resold for use elsewhere, such as
the Western Allegheny. To letter an H8/9/10 for any other class I road has a
strong tinplatish flavor.
Jace Kahn
General Manager
Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co.
> 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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