Hi, I have updated the blog with some images that might interest. http://bodgingindorset.blogspot.co.uk/ Tim
My hands down No.1 favorite articulated loco is the y6b if this is pertainant to the thread...Something about the flat bottom of the smoke box over the swivling pilot .And the way the steam pipes form a kind of ,well...Y up front, too..Engine has a low slung look about it like it's prowling along like a baracuda..Wow I wish my dad had taken me to see these when I was a child in the 50s...But it didn't dawn on me that the drive to Baltimore was a sinch from L.I.N.Y...I did see Pennsy GG1s and boxcab traction in Grand Central Station or Penn Station and Belpair fire boxed LIRR steam...And, Oh the view out the front window of the NYC subways right next to to the motorman's little booth-cab door which may times was held open by a divice , allowing me to watch him and the tracks glistening in the dark tunnels with signals flying by...At least I had these !! I believe if I had the room I'd go N&W with those long slow coal drags...
I model in HO and the good ole N&W has trackage rights over my free-lanced B&NW, a Southern sub. Layout is set in the late 70's. I grew up in Bristol, Va/Tenn in the 70's to mid-80's so I remember the N&W and Southern before the "Horse".
I do something similar like you Dave. My free lanced Algoma&Wolff Creek Railroad gave N&W trackage rights over their line to get a direct access to important Southern cities. I do my modelling in HO scale and my Layout will be set in the 1920-1930 when the great depression is not yet present. So there will be no diesel power present.Actually I got already a K2a with sound, a self kitbashed 2-8-0 class W2 and I am looking forward to get a 2-6-6-2 class Z from the N&W (but all of them are bra$$ - autsch). I have no experience with the N&W as I live in good old europe / germany and I am just impressed by the size and power of the N&W operations to be read in the common publications. An important source for inspirations for me concerning N&W are the photos of Winston O. Link.
