After seeing streamlined Southern Railway, recently B&O, got to wondering, are there any of these on display anywhere? Are there any running fan trips or running at all? Even a running J3 4-6-4 w/o the streamlining.
Those are steam locos I’d really like to have a model of, the only N scale choice is Concor for now.
There is one of these on the Night Train Express bottle, Modesto California,
but I don’t think SP or UP or anyone else in the bay area or near had one like that, and it sure isn’t a GS4.
btw - the Streamliner Special Edition is a winner! Had the B&O.
As a volunteer at Steamtown National Historic Site, I know that in 1967 F. Nelson Blount, (without him, Steamtown would not exist) had a chance to buy a J-3 Hudson from the New York Central but supposedly he did not have money to buy it, he already bought 2 dozen Steam Locomotives by the time the New York Central offered him the Hudson. But F. Nelson Blount was killed in a plane crash in August of 1967, a week after the NYC offered him the Hudson. OH well, you can’t change the pages of history!!!
The Union Pacific donated eight of the preserved Big Boys to the Muesums, but some railroads would not give the engines away because of the junk steel value. .
Most all of the engines saved were given to the parks or Muesums.
At Steamtown, we have a a steam heat , ( it looks like a tender but it’s all enclosed and has a door to get inside), but it was made by combining two NYC Hudson tenders. It was used to provide steam heat for Diesel Passenger Locomotives.
In one of the greatest travesties in railroad history, representatives of the Smithsonian institution approached the president of the NYC and inquired about acquiring a J3a, but he believed steam to be obsolete technology.