How often do I have something to post here? Pretty rare, eh?
I found some photos of “my” mallet, Southern 4019 at http://southern.railfan.net/images/archive/southern/steam/2882/2882.html
Haven’t had a chance yet to compare them with my plastic, save to notice that Larry is wrong, it DOES have the classification lights up high, as he says, “mouse ears.”
And the problem?
Wow, that’s a great line up of steam brutes! The front cylinders on those things, are massive.
Well considering that the prototype for the Aristo Mallet is an N&W Y class…
I took a trip to the Illinois Railway Museum where they have a N&W Y3. The first thing I found there was… G gauge trains!
(http://www.outsidetrains.com/mls/ilrym01.jpg)
And, naturally, as soon as I walked up:
(http://www.outsidetrains.com/mls/ilrym02.jpg)
A vandy tender
(http://www.outsidetrains.com/mls/ilrym04.jpg)
(http://www.outsidetrains.com/mls/ilrym11.jpg)
Oh! There’s NOT a green PC board showing under the headlight!
(http://www.outsidetrains.com/mls/ilrym12.jpg)
Pilot wheel.
(http://www.outsidetrains.com/mls/ilrym13.jpg)
Grates
(http://www.outsidetrains.com/mls/ilrym16.jpg)
Yes, I WAS there and I took the pictures:
Guys, maybe its me, but the first picture in the link posted doesn’t really look quite right as far as the drivers (4002).
A 2-6-8-0? I of course am no expert. Any thoughts on this one?
I may be due for another trip to the optometrist.
You mean 4002? That is a strange loco, but I’m not an expert. I suppose it’s more evidence that there’s a prototype for everything.
Thanks Tom, I thought I was losing it, or my vision.
That #2050 locomotive is incredible. I would sure like to visit it one day.
The 2-6-8-0 was a fairly rare wheel arrangement but the Great Northern had a number of them. I was unaware that the Southern had any.
I checked the Southern Ry. roster and found that they had two 2-6-8-0’s, nos. 4002-4003 and that they were similar to the Alabama Great Southern’s
number 300. AGS was part of the Southern system. The 4002-3 operated on the CNO&TP in helper service out of Saluda and were scrapped with no.300 (now no.6399) in 1935.
I thought this was interesting so I posted it here for you.
Great photos of fantastic engines. Thanks for posting.
Richard, thanks for the info. I had never seen such before. I learn more every day…
