As the title sugest? How to make a NW 2-8-8-2 to look like it was a B&O. Now I know that they didn’t have any 2-8-8-2’s but I just couldn’t help myself. I wasn’t able to find any steam engine for the B&O so this will “have to do”. It’s just such a lovely model. I bought the unlettered one so now I hope that someone on this great forum could point towards some decals that would fit on the luverly machine.
Thanks for your time, Lillen
I think this set would fit the bill?
Man that Y6b was pretty distinctly an N&W machine. B&O did have a 2-8-8-0 that was a little closer to a P2K 2-8-8-2. But, it is your railroad, and you just upgraded things. That PCM is a nice locomotive.
You are going to have a challenge on your hands:
http://www.cvrma.org/pictures/B&O/BALT-OHIO-7174-2-8-8-0_GLENWOOD_PA.jpg
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/bo7141s.jpg
I think this one is actually a 2-8-8-4 Yellowstone Type.
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/bo7707s.jpg
As you can see you will have to remove the trailing truck, shove the cab over the rear set of drivers and other small changes to make a Y-6b look like a B&O engine.
I say leave the PCM y6b well enough alone, letter it for the B&O if you want to. No sense in totaling a very good (And expensive) model.
I too feel the lack of good B&O steam namely the S1 Big 6 and some others. Heck even the Boxcab would rock.
Yes, especially since I don’t even understood the rest of what you said I should do. [:)]
My plan exactly. I intend do letter it B&O style and then leave it. The only one who will ever know is me and I don’t care. 
For me it’s “good enough” it doesn’t have to be perfect and rather then trying to find a correct one on e-bay, from a seller who ships to Sweden and take all those risks I rather spend my cash on this fine modell. The price was rather reasonable aswell, I bought it from factory direct at what I must say is a more then fair price.
Thanks for the links and your input. I’m truly greatfull to all of you.
Lillen
yeah the B&O EM-1 was a magnificent loco. It’s right up there with the C&O H8 and UP BigBoy
Link: http://home.att.net/~s.a.joyce/docs/bo.htm
The EM1 class comprised thirty locomotives (numbered 7600-7629) built for the B&O by Baldwin in 1944 and 1945. These articulated1 engines had 235 psi steam pressure, 24x32" cylinders (4), and 64" disk drivers. They exerted 115,000 pounds of tractive effort, and weighed 1,010,700 pounds (including tender) in working order. The 12-wheel tenders held 25 tons of coal and 22,000 gallons of water. The EM1 had roller bearings on all axles, a feature which made it so free-rolling that, with the cylinder cocks open and on level track, one of these behemoths could actually be pushed by three men.
The EM1 was among the smallest of the Yellowstone (2-8-8-4) type ever built, but nothing larger would have conformed to the Baltimore and Ohio’s tight clearances. Except for some minor staybolt problems, stemming from the uneven distribution of water in the long boiler on steep grades, the EM1 was an exceptionally fine running and reliable locomotive.
The last “new” steam power built for the B&O, EM1’s were initially assigned to the mountainous Cumberland and Pittsburgh divisions. Later, as diesel-electrics displaced steam in the Alleghenies, they were shifted west to the ore-hauling region in northern Ohio. Though designed primarily for heavy freight service, they were versatile machines, and in the early years were even used as passenger power on occasion. As a group the EM1’s lasted until the end of steam power on the B&O. However, their ranks began to thin in 1958, when the decision was made to cease all major expenditures for steam locomot
Lillen - My PCM 2-8-8-2 is running around in NYC colors. I’m just not going to tell anyone. And you are right it is an Awesome Loco.
Terry
And why should we.
And for me atleast. The odds that someone shows up in my garage and gets upset from the fact that I’m running an un-prototypical engine on my B&O layout is pretty much zero! Lets face. I don’t even think a single percent of the swedish population even know what it is!
Lillen
P.s Who will enjoy many hours of fun with his toy as soon as it arrives.
Lillen–
I’m running two Missabe M-4 Yellowstones on my Rio Grande themed layout, and I’ve been running them for about 20 years. So don’t worry about your B&O 2-8-8-2. My excuse was that the Rio Grande borrowed them during the War (which they did) and liked them so much that they just ordered additional copies from Baldwin.
So go ahead and have fun with your B&O 2-8-8-2, and if anyone ask you, just tell them that Norfolk and Western had a sudden surplus, and B&O took advantage of it. Believe me, during the steam era here in America (especially WWII) it wasn’t such a strange thing to happen, anyway.
Have fun!
Tom
My layout is basically freelanced, but I have always liked the Chessie logo, its cars and have an affection for all its counterparts (Chessie, B&O, C&O, though admittedly I have trouble with CSX as I’m not into newer deisels.) I have been following what B&O used in steam, and am delighted that they did run some of the bigger articulated locos. SO, it doesn’t have to be a Big Boy, but the articulateds are a beautiful machine, and I will be proud to have them running on my railroad!I don’t care what anyone says!
Rock on dude!