It’ll be slotted in right behind an F7 or a Mike!
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Here is an Athearn Genesis F7A Rock Island #118
And here is an Athearn Genesis F7 A-B Rock Island Set
Both of these are perfect for the Transition Era
I’m not sure which manufacturer make RI Mikados…
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Bachmann and BLI both made USRA Mikados for the RI; I have a Bachmann one w/ LokSound. Early last year I bought an AB F7 set from BLI. They’re good locomotives. Those Athearn ones look very nice.
Here’s a slice of my layout and my fleet:
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Nice!
Nobody wants to take a guess at the location of this depot? Or the movie?
I’ll reveal it tomorrow if no one responds or tries. It’s OK because there’s not a whole lot to go on in that picture. And that shot is really really blown up from a view way off in the distance, that’s why it’s so fuzzy. I’ll also post the non-crop pictures so you can see the identifying buildings which are actually still there and will give it away to anyone familiar with the rock Island.
I have several of those outside braced cabooses socked away because I like them for one reason or another. I have two RTR in FW&D, and three unbuilt kits, two for the MKT and one for the Norfolk and western. The MKT Cars are reasonably enough like the prototype to satisfy me. I don’t know what I’m going to do with the Norfolk and Western Car. I doubt if they ever had one, but I’m not going to look to see, it’s not my favorite Railroad anyway. I’ve got that car to repaint for some other road if I ever figure out what I want to do with it.
Here is one that I lettered for my home road many years ago. It still gets out on a local freight every now and then.
One improvement I made on this car was to file down the bolsters so that the car sat lower on the trucks, which I replaced with much better looking Kadee trucks.
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Regarding the Roundhouse “30’ Outside Braced Wooden Crummy”, CBQ/FW&D, MKT, RI, and WP had them. I think T&P had some as well.
I have the RI one from my post with the Proto GP7 and two MKT ones. one is Sloan Yellow, the other one is Barringer Red..
I think the N&W one was a freelanced release as the logo could easily be erased and painted over or changed to a custom model for kit bashing…
It’s a good video, but his history is a bit off. The two, while working the Colorado Springs sections, they were ordered for the short-lived Denver-Kansas City section. The KC section split off at Belleville KS. It only lasted about a year or two.
It was soon found that they were underpowered and both received a second diesel prime mover in 1948.
I model the RI in N scale, the Chicago-Denver main line circa 1978. I’m not a purist or rivet counter. I run some steam, a pair of those Bachmann Consolidations in N, and have some engines that came with dynamic brakes in RI colors, among a few other things that would cause some to have an apoplexy. Currently I’m in the building process after we moved to a new home last year.
Operating is more my interest, trying to recreate the feeling of being in a depot or the train dispatcher’s office. It comes from spending Saturdays at the local RI station near my home town, watching trains and listening in on the dispatcher’s phone on a time table and train order subdivision in the late 1970s.
Jeff
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The movie is Dillinger from the early 1970s, and the building is the Enid, Oklahoma Rock Island freight house, which is demolished a few years after the movie was made.
Here’s a shot from the movie just before the Freighthouse appeared. The telephone poles are the same. The building with the curved top is the rock Island passenger station, which is still there.
From the movie:
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Need to plan a visit to the Oklahoma Railway Museum in Enid next time I’m visiting family in the state. If I ever want to do that Enid-Ponca City layout, I’m sure that’ll be a good resource. that diagram of the map with the railyard is already immensely helpful.
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The entire city is mapped out in the Sanborn maps. You ought to be able to find them online. There’s more track in town than just on that one map.
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We were talking about Rock Island’s steam power and how several Consolidations used Loaf of Bread tenders. Found this nice image of one working in New Mexico in 1940.
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Beautiful photo!
The “loaf of bread” or “water bottom” tenders were rebuilt Vanderbilt tenders. The tenders were starting to wear out in critical areas so the RI decided to rebuild them, adding extra water capacity to them.
After steam was gone, some were made into snow plows. After the RI was done, many ended up on carriers that took over parts of the RI. One, from the Cotton Belt (SSW) was donated to the National Museum of Transportation in St. Louis.
Trains had an article on RI tenders in the 1960s/early 70s.
Jeff
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Great photo. Nice tall, deep toned, six chime Whistle on the engine.
If Bachmann, BLI, or another manufacturer does another Consolidation run and the Rock Island is a road name, I’d love for them to offer those loaf of bread tenders. They’re super unique and characterful. Definitely a pipe dream! If I want one, I’ll need to get a brass model, 3D print it, or kitbash it.
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Since my stepdaughter went in the hospital last month, model railroading has been at a standstill. But today, a little action happened on the Central Louisiana and Gulf. Basically cleaning the track. Tomorrow will be full-fledged operation.
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Hope your stepdaughter feels better soon @Patrick_Flory - hospital stays are no fun!
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