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 Posted - December 27 2022 : 4:40:02 PM
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My LOTW is this MDC Old Timer Consolidation. I got it as some broken parts with many missing and pieced together something that works. It didn't have a tender, so it runs with a borrowed Mantua switch engine tender. I got it cheap to cannibalize for parts, but then decided to do something with the leftovers.
It usually runs on the Mussentuchit Transfer, because the motor is in rough shape, I don't know how many miles are left in it, and the transfer run is short and infrequent. I've lately been trying it on way freights, though, and it's been working out fairly well in that job. I think I'll be watching out for another of these at future swap meets.
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Posted - December 29 2022 : 06:46:42 AM
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Marvelous shot from a marvelous layout. Truly an alternate universe
First gen steam slogs over the bridge and over the vale to Grandmother's house.
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Posted - December 29 2022 : 10:00:15 AM
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Chops, I like that engine. There's a full-size version of it at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg.
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Posted - December 29 2022 : 12:48:55 PM
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quote:Chops, I like that engine. There's a full-size version of it at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg.
Originally posted by scsshaggy - December 29 2022 : 10:00:15 AM
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yes & the real one is at the Smithsonian 
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Posted - December 30 2022 : 11:44:57 PM
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quote:Chops, I like that engine. There's a full-size version of it at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg.
Originally posted by scsshaggy - December 29 2022 : 10:00:15 AM
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Thanks, Shags. First Gen steam is amazing. These guys were taking iron ingots and raw wood and making
stuff with so little prior information. I can scarcely grasp their level of intelligence to assemble these
pioneers of rail.
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Posted - January 01 2023 : 3:41:15 PM
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I would tend to agree with that statement. Necessity is often the mother of invention, and the B&O in particular had some unique solutions to their motive power problems.
That said, as a modeller, I find I like turn of the century steam the best. It is small enough to run well on 18 inch curves, and train lengths were short so the lack of pulling power is less of an issue. But if you get the right ones..... I have an MDC old time 2-8-0 similar to whan shaggy has. It is a dead ringer for a locomotive on one of tthe Western Maryland predecessors where it earned its keep pulling coal trains up 3% grades. The model can actually pull 12 cars up my 4% grade! That;s probably better than the real one could do.
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