Large Scale Central

Another consolidation enters service

Modeling
#1

A while ago i made an Aristo Mikado and a Lionel Atlantic into a reasonable approximation of a PRR H-9. I liked it so much I finally got around to making a second one. I already had a second aristo drive, and after much looking managed to find a non-functioning, beat up Lionel Atlantic and a non-functioning, beat up aristo Pacific. I’m just testing it out, and haven’t lettered it yet. I’m making it a little different in the details, mostly paint.

So far I’m having trouble getting the new one to track right–something’s off in the pilot truck. Need to work on speed matching them a bit better. They couple reasonably closely, but it ought to be possible to get them to run exactly the same. The both have the same drive block and the same DCC decoder

This is a relatively easy bash–you cut the running boards off the aristo frame, shorten it, and then the lionel shell just drops right down onto aristo frame/cylinders

#2

PRR’s smaller locos, those Consolidations, E6 Atlantics, various G class 4-6-0, F3 Moguls, and a whole slug of 4-4-0 types, are really handsome little beasties to me.

Guess that’s karmic payback for so many years as an anti-Pennsy fan, eh.

Oh yeah, and your models look good too ;D

#3

I agree, although the only reason I ever started modeling the PRR is because I grew up in PA. I’ve never quiet reconciled myself to living in VA. They do have a nice chunky look

#4

Hey, PRR got into Virginia, Norfolk and Virginia Beach specifically, via a barge line on the Eastern Shore which landed near where Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base is today.
Somewhere have found text and Photos in reference.
Text in Staufer’s book PENNSY POWER?

When Dad was in USN we lived pretty near there in mid 1980s and car float barge operation was still running, but obviously not by PRR nor with 2-8-0s.

Hmm, got time to kill, what might Google excavate?

http://forums.trainsim.com/vbts/archive/index.php/t-234859.html

http://www.nrhs.com/spot/eastern_shore_rr/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Shore_Railroad

http://www.prrths.com/Hagley/PRR1923%2012-09.pdf

My painting preference would be to alter the Brunswick Green to be a bit more obviously green as opposed to the “might as well be black” hue.

#5

That’s amazing stuff–hard to believe you could make money loading rail cars onto a barge, floating them across the bay, and re-railing them on the other side.

A.J. Cassatt, the prez of the PRR mentioned in the article, was the brother of Mary Cassatt, the painter–little known fact. Too bad she never painted any trains!

#6

Interesting about Cassatt!

Here we go,

Alvin F. Staufer, page 35, PENNSY POWER said:
"Consols participated in the unusual, upon occasion. They became seagoing voyagers, via carfloats across the mouth of Chesapeake Bay from Cape Charles to Little Creek, for use on Pennsy's Virginia mainland orphan beach head, connecting with Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt Line."
#7

Mike,
Nice pair :slight_smile:
I do like the look of the engines.
Ralph