Has any manufacturer ever modeled the Mikado engine#19?This engine was used in the movie Emperor of the North in 1973, and ran on the Oregon Pacific and Eastern Railroad. believe it was also used in other movies as well.The last I heard it was running on the Yreka Tourist Railroad.A model of this engine would look great running on any garden layout.
Richard
Welcome to this great site.
I do not think so. I don’t know enough about that loco but I would think you could get a Arist mike and detail it up to make a good representation of it.
Rodney
I almost think that starting with the Aristo Consolidation (not the C-16 version) or even the Bachmann big hauler would be the best place to start. #19 is far from being the size of a B&O pacific which is what the Aristo mike is based off. I was just watching my dvd of the movie the other night and though that #19 carried a striking resemblance to teh California Western engine… the steam on teh Skunk Train railroad.
Welcome Richard
I don’t have the full history of no. 19 but I believe the “original” owner was McCloud River R.R. 19.
(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/richard_smith/2012/MCR19-2-8-2.jpg)
photo: Otto Perry It went to Yreka Western along with no. 18 for a bit and then wandered around. It was a stock small 2-8-2 designed for logging railroads. It was therefore much smaller than mainline railroad 2-8-2’s. As for the Aristo 2-8-0, it looks to be a B&O prototype and would most likely be too large to use for no. 19. Certainly the drivers would be too big. If memory serves me they were about 62" drivers while the average 2-8-0 driver size was around 56". I don’t know the driver size on no.19 offhand but probably they’d be around 48" or so. The Aristo C-16 mechanism being for a 3 foot gauge loco in 1/24 scale might scale out fairly well for a model of no. 19 in 1/29 or 1/32 scale. Of course everything from the cylinders on up would have to be rebuilt. A good project for ol’ Rooster. He’s got nothing better to do. 
In the movie she was a wood burner. A Mike that big would need to stop and load it’s tender with fuel every 4 or 5 miles to climb “Breakheart Pass”
Somehow they covered the oil bunker with stacks of wood. I dunno why the director did this.
Never mind. Wrong movie. How in the heck I got Breakheart Pass out of Emperor of the North, I’ll never know.
Anyway, If you watch Breakheart Pass, the Mike is pictured as a wood burner.
Your Right Dick,
Number 19 has 48 inch drivers, 20X28 inch cylinders, 178,400 lbs, with 35, 700 tractive force.
Number 18 went to the new V&T in 2005. I think that #19 is still in Yreka but there was/is talk of it
leaving.
Rick
First of all “Welcome Aboard Richard”. After seeing your post yesterday I went down stairs and watched “Emperor of the North” on our 54" wide screen TV. I love that movie. I paused the DVD several times to get a good look at #19. I don’t know about the driver size on the Aristo-Craft C-16 but a straight boiler with a Bachmann cab from a ten wheeler would be a good start.
BTW It looked to me as if the Fireman was shoveling coal into the boiler not wood.
Chuck