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Exactly. Back "in the day", trains were actually used in combat situations. There were armored trains, rail guns, rail supply lines built right to the front... That's why you saw some MRS-1s in civilian use in the US. These were the last custom-built military engines (that I know of). Their...

And didn't the C&S consider both 2-10-2s and 2-6-6-2s? It would've been interesting to see US narrow gauge lines actually get large power.

And keep to that spacing elsewhere, too - it's appropriate for 24" curves.

Makes me wonder what those are, since the PRR seemed to have almost everything from every builder.

I don't reme,ber you, but good to see you anyway. The question is, what do you want to model? Railroad, time period, operational emphasis?

I find this interesting. I don't know anything about Haitian trains, but it reminds me of similar operations in Cuba until recently and in Java to this day.

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locoPicture.aspx?id=60460 Unrenumbered, but it acquired a UP logo in an odd place: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=864014 In 2008, the yellow panel is still there, but the logo seems to have vanished...

Notice the one shot where there's a train to compare. The layers are less thick than the 40' boxcar is long (3" in N).

"What is that trailing unit?" I thought. A CN PA... not the first time I've seen that as a fantasy unit. I think the other one I saw was in sergeant stripes, though.

The 44-tonner doesn't have side rods.

I guess that means you're not too concerned with steam, as the main Santa Fe steam remaining in your time frame were 4-8-4s and 2-10-4s, both very large designs that probably wouldn't like 24".

BRC 1954 is... well, cute. Looks like a ballast car to me, too, not a covered hopper.

http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/loadgauge/loadgauge.htm The US steam-era loading guage was about as wide as Central Europe, and between that and USSR in height.

The Mallet was conceived as a tank engine for narrow gauge and branchlines, and in many places, that's where it stayed. The mainline tender Mallet didn't catch on in a lot of countries. It speaks volumes that the British steam hunters (active after 1968 ) chased Garratts in many countries, but...

A GP40, U33B and two C630s... now that's what "three-builder consist" means.

Actually, the full form of the European system does that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UIC_classification uses an apostrophe after any set of wheels that pivots.

I'm saying that the ~40 designs of 4-8-4 aren't even diversity by steam standards. I have no idea how many hundreds of classes of 2-8-0 there were.

A Mallet would be somethign like 2-6-6-4. A 4-6-2+2-6-4 is a Garratt. As noted, the Whyte system makes a LOT of assumptions about a steam engine's design, and it's easy to break. The Eurpean system not only counts axles but dstinguishes powered and unpowered - a 4-6-2 becomes a 2C1. The...

There are more pre-WW2 modellers showing up than I expected. Something I've come to notice (though this poll doesn't support it): In North American model railroading, time periods before the 1940s don't seem well represented. In Britain and Germany (other countries with large fan and...

http://www.steamlocomotive.com/northern/ 36 North American railroads had 4-8-4s, almost all with unique designs and several with more than one design. And this is for a wheel arrangement introduced quite late.