The Milwaukee isn't the easiest road to model. Aside from the USRA heavy Mikado there were no other standard designs for steam. The lack of standard designs included much of the passenger car fleet also, at least until the Pullman orders of 1947. I'd have to say my most wanted would have to be the F-7 Hudson engines. Of course, I'd want the electrics but maybe in due time. I have almost all of the parts to build some boxcabs and little Joe's myself so we shall see. Somewhere on the list would be the passenger cars from 1937 when the railroad added another Twin Cities train, the afternoon Hiawatha, two new Beavertail cars were included in that order. I'm still collecting trolley and interurban equipment that was on or near the Milwaukee so that's fun!
Thank you Russell. I think I'll have to pass on your kind offer. Given all that's in orbit right now in my universe, it'll be a long time before I'm able to take on a painting project. Thanks very much though.
Kato Western Maryland F7 in the speed lettering and Circus Paint schemes Kato or Atlas U28B in the P&LE New Image Paint Scheme (Not the pug nose U28B, but the U28B with the U25B body shell and slopped low hood) A few years ago I had the opportunity to speak with Alex from Kato USA while he was at Esther's Hobby shop about the U28B and he could not make any promises on the project. I told him many roads purchased the U28B with the same body style as the P&LE's U28B's, namely The Milwaukee Road, The Southern Pacific and The Rock Island. So my only hope now is Atlas decides it's time to add a U28B to their N scale roster, I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
2 modern...pup trailers (names not important) 2 modern...day cab tractors (names not important) Have a warehouse with limited parking. Gotta have some trucks !
Oooo. This Milwaukee Road fan likes the idea, very much. And if they'd do them in the as-delivered (1966) numbers, even better!
Hopefully trainworx will be putting out some of their upcoming trucks and trailers soon. Lots of day cabs, pups and 53', YRC, Roadway, Estes, ABF, Saia and Con-way.
I would like one of these but with a long straight boom that folds in half and has a claw to pick up logs. When I was in grade school they had one at the paper mill in Oconto Falls, WI. It unloaded the train and stacked them in long piles. Then would load them on smaller flat cars to take to the pond were they got cut up. I would like it in N and HO. Rich
Any prototype pics of that? Would be impressive to see. I just remembered that another gap in Atlas production line is a dynamic braked GP9 in Milwaukee Road colours. They keep re-releasing the torpedo tube ones, but never an orange and black GP9 with dynamics.
Back then I didn't have a camera and I've only seen smaller ones in pictures of north woods logging. They were switched from steam power to diesel engines and made smaller before the ended here in northern Wisconsin. The one they used at the mill in Oconto Falls, WI was like the picture but the boom was slender, longer and folded down in half to get it into it's storage shed. They then used more modern front end loaders to move the logs to the pond. The log piles were much shorter and lower before the company closed. Now they make diapers and the train doesn't come into there. Only to the top of the bluff. Rich
I missed getting one of the Big Boys, I really like big steam, was able to get a Cab forward and a few Challengers, but not a Big Boy
Additional wish list items: Pennsy Baldwin passenger shark Pennsy Lima Hamilton transfer unit CNJ Baldwin baby face in tangerine orange CNJ F-3 in tangerine orange
Moose need 40-42 ft 1900-1930 period flat cars. Moose need flat cars and ones that don't significantly exceed the length of Moose's 40' boxcars & reefers. The few that Moose has found have been too pricey to contempt!
@Randy Stahl Thank you for the link. Moose has several of this company's flatcar, boxcar and vehicle kits. Moose is looking for a higher quality product - quality that matches the typical RTR rolling stock offered by other manufacturers.
I'm gonna take a different track here... (see what I did there?) New Kato N Scale Ground Level Single Track Unitrack pieces: Flat curves in 414mm and 447mm radius
If that's from the site on the internet look for a man directing logs on the pond. It's believed that is my father. I have been in the plant on both sides of the river in the '60-'70 before in got changed a lot. The train bridge is just to the right with the auto bridge next to it. The Falls and two dams are in the middle out of sight. In the upper right is the end of the log rail line and the start of the log piles. There were like eight of them about 1/4 mile long. Went to the berm for the big electrical dam. From that point looking at the smoke stack about 1 1/4 miles is were I grew up. Richard
Moose, I have six kits from Ticky Train Group. 40ft. built in 1928. I have Kadee #178 couplers for them. Not assembled. Only issue is they are HO. Rich
