That is at the B&O museum in Baltimore. It is actually parked RIGHT next to THIS beauty that they DO make in N Scale.
Hi Everyone, I was on Broadway Limited's website window shopping when I once again saw their beautiful Brass Hybrid C&O 490 locomotive in HO. WISHING I could buy it in N scale, I filled out the "Contact Us" sheet yesterday and today I get an email from a Project Manager at BLI asking for my thoughts on that project wondering if the higher end brass hybrid locomotive like that would sell in N Scale. I told him I certainly thought so and hinted they should price it near the new Kato Bigboy.... Would LOVE for them to come out with one of these, so who knows? Nice personal touch from BLI.
I have a Hudson that was converted using the PE kit. It looks ok, but there was a person on the auiction site selling 3D pinted shells for the engine and tender that are a work of art. I have mine in primer right now.
There are a bunch of shrouded engines that have not been done. I'm waiting for a nice Milwaukee F-7 hudson. In addition, the CB&Q had a nice one. The C&NW had a couple. The B&O had some for the Cincinatti train. It's quite a long list of engines that have not been done in N scale. It's difficult even to find a Hudson for a donor mechanism to use with a printed shell. I wish someone would just make a couple of different mechanisms to combine with a group of shells to make dozens of locomotives but in this ready to run age I dont think we would ever see a "craftsman" style steam locomotive kit for your favorite prototype. How cool would it be if you could buy a Kato 4-8-4 mech with a selection of wheel diameters, a choice of pilot and trailing trucks and cylinder sets to make whatever you wanted? Couple that with a selection of tenders and tender trucks. Then sell the kits for the different boiler and cabs with road specific details. I wonder how many N scalers would actually buy?
AH YES... it is a Hudson Class 4-6-4. It has a "schnozz" only a "muddah could love". It is hideous... in an artistic way of course.
I'm thinking that you think that's a 567-engined, 1939 E-3A, but it is actually a 201-A-engined, 1937 EA, the prototype on which these are based: http://www.spookshow.net/loco/kumatae.html
LOL... yes Minions are hideously lovable. I'm not sure who did the design work for streamlining the 490. Not Loewy... not Kuhler... could it be one of Vincent Price' early horror movies??
You just had to say that, didn't you? Now I'm gonna have put "Dr. Phibes, Plastic Surgeon" on a storefront...
Gad-zooks... it was a trick question... LOL. Brass locomotives don't exist in my reality due to lousy running history. I was once told that those fine looking models were great for your display case. Trying to run them will send you to an asylum kicking and screaming. Thanks for the info though!
The Lackawanna's "streamstyled" steam locomotives are covered in a softcover book called "The Merchant's Engines." Given that a good part of my heritage is bound up with the Lackawanna Railroad, I have a copy around here someplace... Also available from a certain large online seller of books and stuff.
