Of course the C&O Havy mountains did'nt look like the C&O version as delivered did they?

Quote from: brokemoto on July 28, 2007, 07:01:11 PM


The builder's photographs that I have seen of the USRA heavy 4-8-2s show USRA Long tenders.    Drury's book has a builder's photograph of NYNH&H 3300, a USRA light 4-8-2 that appears to have the long tender.

What roads got the USRA Heavy under the USRA? (excluding post USRA copies).

N&W's came with the standard USRA 10,000 gallon tender. Of course these tenders were replaced with larger tenders in the 1920s.

Perhaps Bachmann's non-C&O heavy mountain is based on a subsequent copy of the USRA design, and this could account for the long tender.

Question: did the N scale Light Mountain come with a 10,000 or 12,000 gallon tender? (USRA 12,000 gallon tenders were only used on USRA 2-10-2, 2-6-6-2, and 2-8-8-2 - all other USRA road power came with 10,000 gallon tenders).

 

Thanks Bachmann - pretty sure the N&W's version (only C&O and N&W recieved "original" USRA Heavy Mountains) were delivered with the standard 10,000 gallon USRA tender. Any chance you could use the 12,000 gallon tender from the 2-6-6-2 instead? It would be a closer match for N&W (this is what Bachmann did on the HO scale version)

Mr. Bach-man,

Please tell us you will make correct versions for C&O and N&W like you did in HO:




Thanks!

Mark