Hello,
Here’s a second question.
Among my HO models, I have a steam locomotive identified as Rock Island with the number 407. It is a 0-6-0 mogul.
Does anyone has any information about its history ? Is it in a museum ? Or recycled ?
Thank you,
François.
First off a 0-6-0 is not a mogul but a 6 coupled swtcher. A Mogul will have a 2 wheel lead truck making it a 2-6-0
Now what make is this H.O model,Tyco, Riverossi, MDC? Or is it a brass import?
Most of the plastic were either a USRA prototype or just generic models.
Brass locos are almost always a model of a prototype.
407 in RI steam would have been a 4-6-2 used in its final days in Commuter service in Chicago. Hand fired and not very big but a good looking engine. I know of one in OK one in Union Ill and one in Peoria.
The last RI steam engine with #407 seems to be a 2-8-0 Consolidation rebuilt and renumbered for switching service. Previous steam engines numbered 407 were 4-4-0 American types.
The 4-6-2 Pacifics were in the 800 and 900 series.
Jeff
According to one friend, the locomotive model would have been produced by Mantua or Model Power…
Well Holy toast! I messed that number up dont ask me why I thought it was a Pacific ! Had my eye on one to many open pages that night . My guess is model power. No offence to them but they would slap a 4005 number on a 0-4-0T then letter it Union Pacific.