Hello all. I love seeing steam locomotives “dress up”. Like NKP 765 as C&O 2765. And that got me to thinking what other “dress ups” would people want to see? I’d love to see Pere Marquette 1225 as her planned C&O number 2659 for a excursuon/photo charter. What say you all?
The first to come to mind would be NKP 765 as NKP 779 (Last Steamer built by Lima).
I’m sure there are others I’d like to see, but that would be #1 on my list…
Too bad the smokebox doors aren’t interchangable between a GS6 and a GS4, if possible, we could have 4449 masquarding as a GS2 or 3, your’e choice!
Food for thought
Dave
I hesitate to jump on this bandwagon, but I’d be curious to see how SP&S 700 would look in N.P. livery.
If I have an objection at all, it’s because of the careless photo reproduction and misidentification that occurs. A book on the B&O prominently displays an engine that is identified as B&O Q-3 2-8-2 4501. Actually, it’s SR 4501, painted up for a Henry Fonda movie several years ago. Now there are folks who seem to think B&O Q-3’s looked just like SR Ms-1’s.
Tom
I am not totally sure - but both may have looked the same when new, as I think both were the USRA ‘Light Mikado’ design dating from WW I.
Who says the have to run?
I’d find it hillarious to see SP 4460 “The Lost Daylight” put in the actual Daylight paint scheme…
The old d & h leased the reading 2102 to pose as one of thier steamers for their centennial. I forget the d & h road number, but even added on elephant ears smoke deflectors.
CSX for their Santa Train one year used UP’s 3985 which was painted up and identified as Clinchfield 676.
CSX running steam?!?!!? Wow, thats a first, but times sure have changed, 1309’s wheel weren’t even allowed to roll on their tracks.
1992
I never would have beleived it, then again, it was 22 years ago. Thank you for sharing…
The Reading T1 posing as a D&H northern was numbered 302. I rode behind it on a two day Hoboken-Binghamton excursion back in the early '70s.
More than you think. For the T1 lovers out there, remember.
And in case anyone wonders about a T1 modified to resemble a D&H prototype:
(Vs. the original:)
Now, who can find a picture of the oversized Dremel tool that Kalmbach presented as the “Model of the Month” prize to the folks who ‘kitbashed’ D&H 302?
The Chessie Steam Express was done by Chessie System prior to the CSX merger.
OK, I will be the first NAY-SAYER to this idea. BAD BAD BAD! Shame on you! Dress up is for Barbies, not steam locomotives. [D)]
I love the SR, but i will never forgive them for bastardizing 2716! Wasnt too fond of the UP as a Clinchfield, and definately didnt like 765 taken out of her proud livery, even to resemble another favorite of mine, the C&O.
Never fails to astonish me why anyone would pull such stunts. If you want a C&O Berkshire, dont mess up an NKP when there are 12 C&O Berskhires dying to be rebuilt. You wanna see one, rebuild one!
That doubly goes for PM 1225!!! Check the avatar - she better stay in PM trim… PERIOD! (not that I could do anything to stop it) Not too fond of her being relettered “Polar Express” either, and I hope those days are over. I take this one personally.
I am probably the only railfan out here with this attitude. But I find it degrading and shameful to see such stunts. These arent toys, they are history, heritage, and machines that have earned their right to be as they were made. They were preserved/saved as such, so shall they remain.
And while I am on the [soapbox], same goes for these Heritage diesels now a days. NKP, Pennsy, etc never had AC Diesel locomotives. If you want to see a heritage livery, resurect a heritage locomotive!!! Dont paint the first safety cab the rolls by. Thats pretty cheap, and insulting to this railfan.
For all those who served blood, sweat, and tears, and yes… even died working on a railroad, its pretty perverse to honor them with a fascade of fakery. Even for the benefit of railfans.
Whats next? N&W 611 as Thomas the Tank engine? [|(][tdn][li]
What say I? Not on my watch would this EVER happen!
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CSX running steam??? Wow, thats a first, but times sure have changed…
More than you think. For the T1 lovers out there, remember.
And in case anyone wonders about a T1 modified to resemble a D&H prototype:
(Vs. the original:)
Now, who can find a picture of the oversized Dremel tool that Kalmbach presented as the “Model of the Month” prize to the folks wh o ‘kitbashed’ D&H 302? For anyone who may be interested, The T-1 2100 is sitting in a industrial park in Richland, Wa. I have a few pictures that a friend took that I am free to post. He says that it’s looking pretty rough and that the vandals and birds have done a “number” in the cab. If anyone would like to see the pics, my e-mail is maynardsr@comcast.net I don’t do facebook or twitter. LONG LIVE THE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE IN ALL OF IT’S FORMS !!! &n
Start a new thread – “create a new discussion topic” in brave-new-world-IT-speak – with a name like ‘T1 2100’s current state’ and post the pictures there. While it could be said that the current ‘Ferroequus’ scheme is a ‘relettering scheme’ for the T1, the point of your post would be to show the locomotive’s condition, not so much to comment on its renaming. (And you’ll probably get more readers and comments than if the thread drifts into 2100-as-left-by-the-bankers territory…)
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Too bad the smokebox doors aren’t interchangable between a GS6 and a GS4, if possible, we could have 4449 masquarding as a GS2 or 3, your’e choice!
Speaking of GS4s, the caption for Alex Mayes’ shot of SP 4449 in the “Locomotive Lights” photo contest needs a small correction. The 4449 was delivered with a single-reflector Mars oscillating headlight, and was among a number of GS4s and 5’s to be retrofitted with the Mars Company’s updated twin sealed-beam signal light in the early 1950s. Finally, in 2012, the original single-reflector Mars light was restored, taking the locomotive back to her as-delivered configuration.
Leave it to Doyle and the 4449 crew to do things right!
Ted Benson