I bought a Spectrum 2-10-2, with square sided tender, unlettered.
Can someone please tell me what railroads used this specific locomotive, including engine number, so that I can decal it? I freelance on my railroad layout.
Did any of the following railroads use this specific locomotive:
NYC, PRR, B&O, C&O, SP, UP, NP, GN, DRGW, SANTA FE, SOUTHERN,
Thanks much for your help.
You need to check out the Kalmbach LOCO CYCLOPEDIA, it has all of the info you want including info on the copies as well as pictures. You can get one new or sometimes find them fairly cheap at train shows. I’ve found them as cheap as $5 in the past.
A good reference library is like a well stocked parts bin, you can never have too much of either one.
Mark
timber:
If you Google “USRA light 2-10-2 steam locomotive”, Wikipedia will show you the railroads that used that particular locomotive–the Spectrum is a model of the ‘light’ 2-10-2. It looks as if NYC used them on their subsidiary Boston and Albany, and Southern Ry. seems to be by far the largest user of that particular locomotive (50).
Though I know that both Rio Grande and Southern Pacific used the 2-10-2 wheel arrangement, neither was based on the USRA design. SP’s rather large fleet was built primarily by Baldwin to specific SP design, and the Rio Grande 1400’s were built by Alco in 1916, before the USRA design, and were for years among the heaviest 2-10-2’s on the rails. They also had a very distinctive ‘stubby’ Vanderbuilt tender, since they were primarily used as road and helper locomotives on a short section of Rio Grande trackage in Utah, over Soldier Summit on coal trains.
Tom
“Timber,” you don’t have to leave this Website. That Spectum model is a USRA light 2-10-2. Go to “Our magazine” above, click on “online extras,” and then on “A modelers’ guide to USRA locomotives.” This is an online reference supporting my article of the same name in the January MR. You can download the allocation chart there showing which railroads had original USRA versions of that engine, and how many of them.
Merry Christmas,
Andy
Actually, this is a more useful site for information on the USRA engines:
http://www.steamlocomotive.com/misc/usra.shtml
Unfortunately, neither this site nor the MR page show COPIES of the USRA engines that were in use, which in most cases outnumbered the USRA originals (which, in turn, were mostly copies of other engines already in existence in 1918).