If anyone out there has any good photos of D&RGW 2-6-6-2s or any good links to D&RGW sites that they’re willing to share, I’d greatly appreciate it. I’m getting ready to make a W&LE into #3350 of the D&RGW. #3350 served 10 years (1942-52).
Thanks in advance. [:D]
-Sam-
Here’s 3351 -
Here is another good resource for Rio Grande photos:
hold onto your hat buckerooos…Model Power is producing the N&W/D&RGW 2-6-6-2, its in the works right now.
This is my letter from them
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From: dinwitty dinwitty@xxx.xxx
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 19:30:30 -0500
To: mantua@modelpower.com
Subject: new 2-6-6-2I noticed you had in the new to arrive newsy stuff everywhere I am
reading IE Model Railroader, Walthers, etc…you have the 2-6-6-2 coming out in Norfolk and Western
How true to the prototype will the model be
trying to find pics of the model, none yet to be seen.
-dinwitty-
N&W sold the 2-6-6-2’s to the D&RGW. Good news from MP.
In the following link (if it works), scroll down to “U”, for USA, then, on the next page, scroll down to the D’s, and find D&RGW. You may find some pix there. I have found scads on PRR, NYC, C&O, UP, etc.
Sam–I can’t help you with a photo because I don’t have a scanner on my computer, but I CAN help you with a source–a book called DENVER AND RIO GRANDE WESTERN–SUPERPOWER RAILROAD OF THE ROCKIES by Robert LeMessina, published in 1999 by TLC Publishing, Inc. 1387 Winding creek Lane, Lynchburg VA 24503-3776. It should be available through your LHS, and is very much worth having if you’re interested in Rio Grande steam. There’s a really fine detailed photo of #3351 on pg. 65. You’d have to change the front cylinders of the Spectrum 2-6-6-2 out, but the general lines of the loco look like a kitbash could be done from your W&LE.
Frankly, considering the poor pulling performance of the Model Power locos that I’ve got, I’d probably go with kit-bashing the Spectrum. Their USRA 2-6-6-2 certainly pulls the pants off of the Proto (Model Power) USRA 2-8-8-2. You might check with either PSC or Cal-Scale (Bowser) to see if the proper front cylinder castings are available.
Tom
hope you have a few photos of your work
K
Model Power picked up the Mantua product line, they are running the 2-6-6-2 now. Thats virtually allmetal engine.
I am not talking about the Bachmann 2-8-8-2 which is whats been referred to.
modify away but I will wait for the MP version.
MP is doing a new engine. Its not their standard ways of their stuff, so I look for something better in this engine.
no I always looked at model power as more of the train set kid style equipment. I don’t think so with what their doing. I will wait and evaluate it.
I have the Bachmann 2-6-6-2 W&LE and its staying that. If you wait and evaluate the MP version and like it, I will BUY your model.
Hey guys. Thanks for all the info. I’m really looking forward to making this loco into a D&RGW.
Dinwitty, that’s the first I’ve ever heard of the Model Power version. I’m curious now to see what they’re like.
Tracklayer
Yeah, me too. I can think of only two versions of the Z-1 that have been done, both in brass - Custom Brass did aversion in 1979, and Division Point did one in the late 1990s. I like my Z-1a, but it has an unfortunate tendency to shed detail parts (CB, not DP!).
BTW, Tracklayer, you might want to give Eugene Huddleston’s book on USRA locomotives a look-in - he says the Z-1 was the basis for the USRA design, so except for the low-pressure valves (which were slide valves on the Z-1a), they’re probably pretty similar.
