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Hawaii Railway Co. No. 5 at CAMA Show 9/28

I posted these over in the Conventions and Shows forum, but I think they got lost over there. Here are some photos of the current state of Hawaii Railway Company No. 5 taken in Kent, CT last weekend along with a few other highlights of the show.

#5 raising steam in the crisp morning light…

They have made some modifications to #5 to accommodate passengers on the tender. A milk crate step…

And safety railing around the tender…

Quite a line waiting to ride…

Out on the line…

The new sawmill exhibit. Never did get to see it in operation…

And these are for Rooster…

Sorry about the ‘cross-post’ if you have already seen these.

Just the inspiration you need to bash a Bachmann??? Indy? Looks like a neat place to visit. Oh, lucky you didn’t get to see the sawmill operate. Ya coulda put an eye out! :slight_smile:

Yeah, its a good thing that OSHA didn’t see that sawmill! :slight_smile:

OSHA would have a conniption with most of the operational exhibits. No guards; open belts & pulleys etc. Oh the horror!

Thanks Jon for the Pics. was going to go on sat but just never got there only about 1 hr. away

Richard

Wow!!!

I gotta gettuh’ Kent Ct. PDQ! to see this little beauty up close and personal. Thanks for the post, Jon. Hope to see you again at the next ECLSTS, BTW.

Actually Bmann alreay did a model of this little gal…the 2-4-2 WAAAAAAY back there before the Original Big Haulers…

Bart “Mr. Worldwide” Salmons said:

Actually Bmann alreay did a model of this little gal…the 2-4-2 WAAAAAAY back there before the Original Big Haulers…

So the “Indy”, so named by Friar Fred, was a second release? Didn’t know that.

Maybe even the third. “Indy” was a Specktrum line offering up-scaled to 1:20. Some say not so well. There was a Big Hauler version previous to that which I think was also a 2-6-0. I think what Bart is referring to pre-dates the Big Hauler 2-6-0.

Some one needs to put together an illustrated history of large scale!

I should have gone since its not too far from me. Oh well maybe next year.

Threads like this do bad things to me. I start searching for LS 2-4-2 pictures and see all kinds of small locos I don’t need that would fit my stable!

Cute little bugger!

I remember one like that in a warehouse in Moses Lake, Wa. Along with a porter and a few other small lokys. The owner passed away and his son auctioned off all the “stuff” that was in that building.

It was a pickers dream. A friend and I went thru it years ago. Among the stuff was a steam powered out-board motor, of all things.

Jon Radder said:

OSHA would have a conniption with most of the operational exhibits. No guards; open belts & pulleys etc. Oh the horror!

All that stuff was built when the operators were expected to be smart enough to keep their fingers out of the belts and stuff.

What does that say about our education system?

Did I really say that out loud?

:slight_smile:

No there never was a 2-6-0 Big Hauler…Big haulers were always the 4-6-0…I think Jon is thinking of the Porters that were unsuccessfully upscaled at one point…

the Columbia 2-4-2 were the pre Big Haulers, contemporary to the Lionel Atlantics…prolly the first Large Scale locomotive I ever saw in the flesh so to speak…

Columbia - That was the one I was thinking of.

My terminology may be off but I thought everything Large Scale that wasn’t the Spectrum line (1:20) was the Big Hauler line. At least that’s what I remember on the boxes for rolling stock.

Would the Porter your thinking of be the Lynn? I have one of the little 0-4-0 Side Tank Porters and an Indy.

No I had a couple Lynns too…but they were a totally different animal than the Porters…there was the original square tank Porter…tehn they did one with a supposedly different cab…then they did the saddle tanked one…anyyways not important…just that Bachmann did a 2-4-2 waaay back there…and it looked a bit like an Indy does…

They don’t have a passenger car or anything? It looks so wrong to see a bunch of passengers riding on the tender.

Kinda like in Cuba, huh?
They could easily make a couple open cars.

They have two D&RGW gondolas and a caboose that’s been restored but has only shop trucks under it. At one time they would pull the gondolas around but they haven’t moved in years now.

They only run this one weekend a year and don’t charge extra for the ride so investing in passenger equipment probably isn’t even on the radar.

They have a large parking area that is a long walk away from the show grounds. At one time the plan was to use the railroad to shuttle people to and from the parking lot. A little thing like a very steep hill kind of put a damper on that plan. It could still be done with switchbacks, but again its a huge investment in volunteer time for use once a year.