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 Posted - March 06 2012 : 9:17:10 PM
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Hey guys,
Have a look at these 2010 shots and the JJ's doing the pulling:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=340730&nseq=5
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=371385&nseq=2
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=257516&nseq=22
How cool! and the answer is about a 100 years ago and thats not fanrail cars behind them....
-Gareth
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-Aristotle
Law of Identification
Edited by - romcat on March 06 2012 9:18:50 PM
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Posted - March 06 2012 : 9:22:32 PM
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Real cool  I heard about that railroad Most of the line was electrified untill sometime a tornado wiped out some of the electric lines & they had to go to diesel 
That really old JJ I would redo in the original rail line it was in when it 1st was delivered 
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Posted - March 06 2012 : 9:22:46 PM
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Let me take a "wild guess" and say May 1923....
(as per the remarks on the webpage)
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Posted - March 06 2012 : 9:29:50 PM
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Hey Ron:
Some of those BW Steeple Cabs go back to pre WW1 and are now approaching their Centennials!
-Gareth
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Posted - March 06 2012 : 9:40:10 PM
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Careful, don't let ChrisC see this thread- he might just pull another "fast one" on us, like that little critter he just built!!!!
(I am actually laughing as I write this!!!!)
Ron
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Posted - March 06 2012 : 9:46:50 PM
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CRITTERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!? Where, where!!!???
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Posted - March 07 2012 : 11:48:11 PM
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Don't worry I don't have a need to build anything that needs overhead power..................YET!!!!*evil laugh* haha.
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Posted - March 08 2012 : 09:26:46 AM
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Now thats pretty awesome sight! At least theres a railwaay using electrics other than for a passenger train corridor!
" Heck with counting 'em rivets, TRAINS ARE FOR FUN! Not called the Mad Scientist for nothing either!"
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Posted - March 08 2012 : 3:39:07 PM
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Lightning powered!
I had no idea anyone was using little electrics like that for freight. Get them together with SMS Lines Baldwins and we'd all need smelling salts.
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Posted - March 09 2012 : 8:55:22 PM
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I found this reference to modeling the Iowa Traction engine:
RE:Philosophy Friday -- The Main A-Traction
ESlade4 replied on Sat, Aug 6 2011 1:33 PM
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I like traction railroads now. Â I grew up near Mason City Iowa and regularly crossed the IATR. Â I haven't been modeling any traction but have been seriously thinking about buying at least one Model Railroad Warehouse's brass kits. Â MRRW does a kit for a B and one for a D in both HO and O if I remember right. Â And IATR has 3 B's and a C as I recall. Â MRRW designed the kit to use a Bachmann 44 tonner as a chassis. Â For the poster who asked I dont' think the do the kit in N, but you could ask. Â
If I remember right IATR is the last working traction freight rail line. Â There is a tourist rr in Wisc that does carry some freight with a electric. Â I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.
I have not yet looked past this reference, into "Model Railroad Warehouse" brass kits, but it sounds expensive.
The above info is from an MR forum post last year.
If anyone else has info on this in HO or ideas on how to go about a kit bash of this as a working engine, don't bushy and speak up!!!!
Siouxlake/Ron
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Posted - March 09 2012 : 9:06:55 PM
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Curiosity got the better of me and I looked up the price of a Baldwin Steele Cab- just a measly
$259.00 in brass, and as a custom order, no less, with a 50% deposit.
Nice to dream....
Ron
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