http://home.t-online.de/home/all-american-trains/ has all the info on these. they havent been wrong yet. just click on the HO menu and click on the proto 2000 link.
i cant wait…C&EI 2-10-2’s!!! yay!!! [:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]
Interesting…neither proto photo shown is of a USRA engine. (neither the C&O, Wabash nor C&EI had USRA 2-10-2s). This is good news for us modelers who actually NEED the USRA 2-10-2; it’s still going to be made by someone else! (hopefully BLI, although it’s nice to see that Life Like has figured out that sound is a real trend, and is offering it as an option on these engines)
I still need a couple of the USRA versions for C&IM coal drags!
It’d be nice to get one of those 2-10-2’s and bash it into a Lehigh Valley one.
RS27’s? Didn’t see that one coming at all!?! Very cool though. Now, how about some more Centuries?
C420, C430, C630’s w/hi-ad trucks, & C636’s!
How about some E44’s and E60’s?
that is a strange pick for the 2-10-2. i know all of the C&EI units went to the C&O and i think the Wabash units may have come from one of them, or from the same order.
it’s great that the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad is starting to get some respect! we have the Atlas RS1’s and GP7’s and the Athearn 2-8-2’s, Stewart F3’s, BLI E7’s and now some 2-10-2’s.
oh…by the way N scalers, Life Like is going to be doing the GP60’s in N scale too!!
Thanks Night Crawler, that’s the link of the day! I wanna’ Tennessee Central RS36’s. acj.
WHAT?
No road numbers of a CB&Q 2-10-2? Or even Santa Fe?
It was known as the Santa Fe type after all, how come the railroads west of the Mississsippi but east (Talking about Midwest here, not the ATSF now) of the Rockies nver get any good steamers out for them?!
This seems out of left field! I’ve rarely ever seen these locomotives. But there is enough intrest in them to pass over production of a UP 9000 class! Or DM&IR M-4! Don’t make no sense to me. [:0]
Chris,
The problem with the USRA 2-10-2 is that it was the best non-Superpower steamer built. This means it wasn’t flashy or fast, and was built during the age of drag freights. Superpower was designed partially to fight off competition from other transportation systems, and the best drag freight engine ever couldn’t do that. So the 2-10-2s got largely overlooked.
Frankly, I like 'em. Two of my favorite roads, the IC and C&IM, were lousy with these engines, and I plan on modeling at least one from each road. I might build a Rock version too, just for fun. Unfortunately, the Q had a very “distinctive” (goofy?) look to their engine designs, so I’m not too sure you’ll be able to pull off one of their engines with this model.
The RS-27 is the really exciting part of this. Finally !!!
My my, but that PennCentral RS27 is a good looking little pug nose!
I wish someone would make a UP 2-10-2…
I suppose if this 2-10-2 isn’t too diferent from the ones that UP used, I could get an unlettered one and letter it for UP. I’d probably have to get a Vanderbilt tender for it though.
Yeah, the Q liked to modify the handrails and piping on every USRA engine they bought (a pure aggravation for modeling, especially for really delicate models like Proto 2K).
However, you have to admit the Q’s Superpower designs were very good looking.
(not so much on the 2-10-4’s as the Northerns and Hudson’s)
The BLI announced ATSF is much closer to the UP locomotive than the forth coming P2K model.
I’ll have to check it out when it’s released then, although it probably won’t fit into my budget for a while.
CN had 4 2-10-2’s and if I’m not mistaken were used on the Danforth in Toronto to haul freight from the Downtown yards to the yard north of the city. Dad talks about them as it was yesterday. You could hear them long before you could see them. Especially on a cold crisp clear day in January.
In the MR news letter it said P2K announced a USRA 2-10-2. Who is right?
I called Life-Like myself, and they say it’s a USRA 2-10-2.
Thanks,
Terry
Thanks for the clarification Terry. So they ARE going to do a USRA heavy 2-10-2, and no the engines highlighted by the “German site”.
Oh well, at least I’ll be able to model the C&IM and IC after all!
Can anyone comment on similarities or otherwise between the USRA 2-10-2’s and the CPR’s 5800 series 2-10-2 Santa Fe’s, used as pushers in the Rockies?