Now that Bachmann has finally done what so few have ever done before and introduced an Alco family loco in HO with their beautiful Richmond 4-4-0, how many others are there, like me, that would welcome an Alco ten-wheeler suitable for the 1900 to end of the steam era period? I'd love to see a large drivered, large boilered Alco ten-wheeler along the lines of an MEC loco as was so common on many roads in the 20s and 30s. Bachmann this would be a model that has never been mass-produced with a potentially large market. -Jim
Sign me up for a NKP R-series 4-6-0:
(sorry; image removed)
Hi Ray;
Looks like the picture you are trying to show is from the members only section on the NKPH&TS's website.
This links seems to work, but not as an embedded picture:
http://nkphts.railfan.net/preservation/pictures/steam/nkp304jpg.html
Quote from: Nigel on April 07, 2007, 04:26:41 PM
Hi Ray;
Looks like the picture you are trying to show is from the members only section on the NKPH&TS's website.
This links seems to work, but not as an embedded picture:
http://nkphts.railfan.net/preservation/pictures/steam/nkp304jpg.html
I wonder if that is why I get a pop up message asking me to log in?
The first time I looked at this thread, the original post was the only message and no pop up.
No I get a pop up everytime I try to read or reply.
rikc9
Quote from: Nigel on April 07, 2007, 04:26:41 PM
Hi Ray;
Looks like the picture you are trying to show is from the members only section on the NKPH&TS's website.
This links seems to work, but not as an embedded picture:
http://nkphts.railfan.net/preservation/pictures/steam/nkp304jpg.html
Oops; thanks for the heads-up Nigel; I removed the image link so it wouldn't annoy anyone else!
Unfortunately, the NKPHTS seems to have the only NKP R-class photos online! I'd love to have a model of the NKP 4-6-0 you posted, but that engine is NKP 44, a P-3.
Quote from: Nigel on April 07, 2007, 04:26:41 PM
Hi Ray;
Looks like the picture you are trying to show is from the members only section on the NKPH&TS's website.
You just gotta dig a little deeper into the page source code...lol.
(http://nkphts.org/preservation/pictures/steam/images/nkp304.jpg)
or this one from the denver public library.
(http://photoswest.org/photos/00013626/00013656.jpg)
If this is an Alco, I wouldn't mind being able to get a model of it. It's 'brother'/'sister'(?) worked the Milwaukee Road branchline from Calmar, IA to Cedar Rapids, IA which ran right next to my Grandmother's house in Strawberry Point. When, as a little kid in the early 50s I visited there, I most always got to see one of the only two locomotives that were working that branchline then. An MWRR gas/electric doodlebug called by the locals 'the dinky', and #1081, a locomotive identical to this one pictured at the engine facility in Cedar Rapids.
It's one non-ICRR steam locomotive I would really like to have. The square headlight is a special remembrance of mine.
(http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/8330/mwrr460fd2.jpg)
lanny nicolet
Thanks pdlethbridge; I completely forgot that Denver might have a photo of an R!
Lanny; that's a nice looking Ten Wheeler! Too bad about the headlight though, but the Milwaukee DID have some interesting appliances!
I've always wondered why no manufacturer has ever come out with a C&NW R class 4-6-0, like 1385 at North Freedom. You would have thought that with that engine running all over the Midwest in the 1980s (and right past Walthers AND Kalmbach a few times!) that SOME manufacturer would have come out with a version of her! Actually, I've spent so much time riding behind and chasing 1385 that she's what I think of as a typical 4-6-0.
Good Morning All,
I would tend to doubt that Bachmann would do an Alco 4-6-0 simply because they already have a 10 wheeler on the market. Now in On30.......one can only wish and I for one would not care if it were an Alco model or not. Just take the large scale one and shrink it down ala the 2-8-0.
Bob
Thay may not produce an Alco ten wheeler. Based on the response my post got, I wouldn't despite there having been thousands of prototypes. However, not producing an Alco ten wheeler because they already produce a Baldwin is like saying that they will only produce one type of boxcar and only one flat car. The only thing common between the large Alco ten wheelers I mentioned and others posted pictures of and the Baldwin ten wheelers that Bachmann sells is the number of drivers. -J
Yes, something along the lines of the old Varney (now Bowser) "Casey Jones" is definately needed. The Bachmann ten wheeler is an excellent loco but it is a very old and small prototype. Most railroads used larger ten wheelers as medium sized passenger locos and some used them for freight and milk train use. P.M.
A loud yes! I would love to see a 69" drivered (or larger) ALCo 4-6-0. Like one of these:
C&NW R-1
CPR D10
O&W E
Rob
If Bachmann won't...then maybe BLI/Precision will...with sound yet.
Hey guys, don't mind me, but this is a competitive world after all, right?
Hey, Johann, let's gett moving on this one, OK?
Rich
I'd buy 3 R-1's if Bachmann produced them. Although I can't say much for the prototype at this time (it's in pieces, and probably will never run for a long time), a R-1 model would be perfect.
3 of them exist-
-1385, North Freedom, WI-
-175, Houghton/Hancock, MI (with NP tender)-
-444, Denver, CO
Phil
i wouldn't mind a 4-4-2 prr to go along with my 4-4-0 so i would also need to get a ten-wheeler of corse ;)