Don, The SHS 2-8-0 was a major factor in my switch to S. I'm quite impressed with the amount of knowledge on the list with regard to prototype RR equipment, but it doesn't mean a whole lot to me. Being a northern New Englander and not at all well travelled, I've never seen a steam locomotive in service except for tourist trains, even at 62 years old. I'm after the feel and function of railroading, not the anatomically correct representation of a particular item. The SHS 2-8-0 is sufficiently complex (without Belpaire firebox) to give me the sense of awe I feel while standing next to the real thing. Oddly, the time period I've chosen to model (1957) post-dates any and all Maine steam. Still, there she sits in all her glory, a fugitive of another time on an obscure branch. How could the piping not be correct?
I'd love to come to the open house tomorrow, but sadly, you're on the wrong side of NYC to be heading North on a Friday afternoon during rush hour. Ed Kozlowsky Sanford, Maine --- On Wed, 6/1/11, Don Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: From: Don Thompson <[email protected]> Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} PRR 2-8-0, was SHS B&O E-27 To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, June 1, 2011, 3:00 PM 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. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ 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: [email protected] [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/
