No wonder I love the NP so much, between this and the Loewy passenger, I think it is the classiest looking road around! Pic credited to Montanan. http://www.trainboard.com/highball/index.php?media/561.126619/
It's nice knowing that there's still some NP in the Northwest, and even nicer that I've gotten to ride it a few times!!
I've too been infatuated with that NP paint scheme ever since I was a little kid leafing through a tattered 1959 Lionel catalog. It still makes me smile when I see it.
Not prototype for sure, but as a little kid playing with wooden trains on the floor, everything in that '59 Lionel catalog looked absolutely real.
Precious memories of the branch along which I grew up. If only I could download from the old "gray matter", there would be some nice videos.
Ken, I'm sure you've come to realize that the second thing to go is the memory, and you forgot what the first was.....Ta Da Bump.
These two are probably some of the reasons the NP has always fascinated me. But, like all good stuff here, they have passed. Next thing you know we'll be pining away for,........... well I can't even say it!
Some of the big steamers were still operating when I was a boy. But what I recall most are the S-4 4-6-0, L-9 0-6-0 and the Class W Mikes.
Interesting side note, I originally got interested in the NP when the wife and I went to a train show many years ago before I really got restarted in HO trains and she really liked the Athearn fake color scheme on the streamliner cars. So I took the opportunity to buy some. Now I have then stored away in drawer, but they served their purpose in allowing me to get CFO approval to model railroading!