Hi y'all!!
I'm happy to tell I've finally made the last payment on a brand new 2-8-8-2 Mallet, and have happily run it a few times on the SCMRS (Sonoma County Model Railroad Society) layout...so I'm now an HO! HO! HO! model rairoader as well as a N ut
It's a LL Proto 2000, based on the USRA prototype..#737 VGN, which was first delivered to N&W in 1919,(and of course, modified by their shops, I'm sure) then transferred to AT&SF during WWII, then back to The Virginian to haul coal out of the Alleghenys after the WAR ended.
If any one knows of any books, magazines or web sites with photos of the 2-8-8-2s of the Virginian Railway..I'd really appreciate a heads up.
Happy Railroadin'!
VGN
I'm happy to tell I've finally made the last payment on a brand new 2-8-8-2 Mallet, and have happily run it a few times on the SCMRS (Sonoma County Model Railroad Society) layout...so I'm now an HO! HO! HO! model rairoader as well as a N ut

It's a LL Proto 2000, based on the USRA prototype..#737 VGN, which was first delivered to N&W in 1919,(and of course, modified by their shops, I'm sure) then transferred to AT&SF during WWII, then back to The Virginian to haul coal out of the Alleghenys after the WAR ended.
If any one knows of any books, magazines or web sites with photos of the 2-8-8-2s of the Virginian Railway..I'd really appreciate a heads up.
Happy Railroadin'!

VGN
