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#131 User is offline   ATSF3751 

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Posted 21 September 2016 - 06:10 PM

I have done quite a bit of work on the model tonight and here is the result. Hope you guys enjoy my progress. I also plan on making a CB&Q 4-8-4 AKA 5632, CB&Q 4-6-4, along with a MILW S2 class 4-8-4, and possibly a CNW 4-8-4 as well. I started thinking why just do excursion locomotives and broaden my views a little more.

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Posted 07 October 2016 - 03:02 PM

Would you ever consider making GTW 4070?

I was working on making her myself. This is a video of GTW 4070 running in OR.

https://www.youtube....h?v=LB6tAumlm_k

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Posted 10 August 2021 - 08:57 AM

I'm new to the site, just getting into MSTS/Open Rails, were these amazing models ever released?

-Max DiNovo

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Posted 10 August 2021 - 09:39 AM

Welcome to ET, Max.
Try to use searching.
Sorry, I know just a little.

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Posted 10 August 2021 - 04:06 PM

No those are still a WIP.

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Posted 01 January 2022 - 06:39 AM

 SVRy_Steve, on 19 December 2014 - 08:01 AM, said:

There's more to it than "You break it, you buy it." Timken planned to keep the locomotive for 2 years or 100,000 miles, then sell it. They had an agreement with most the appliance manufacturers that they would be paid for the parts when they sold her. She reached both while being a demo on the NP, although she also had a damaged crown sheet when sold. NP was a mostly Alco railroad anyway. The sale price was quite cheap for a 2 year old 4-8-4, $33,000.

It's really a shame she was cut up in the late 1950s. As the first all roller bearing steam loco in the USA, she was a real trend setter of historic significance. Here she is on her final run, a "Casey Jones Special", along the Green River on August 8, 1957.

np2626gr-river8-4-1957-900.jpg

Steve


The Four Aces was such a popular locomotive! Why scrap it?

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Posted 01 January 2022 - 08:21 AM

Why scrap the four aces? Good question, with no real answer. The scrap price was about $2500 and fans tried to save her. The railroad wanted steam power gone, along with all the shops, water towers, coal towers, etc., as they converted to diesel power. No doubt this had something to do with paying taxes on things that were no longer needed. As a very significant loco in the development of modern steam power and the roller bearing that eventually eliminating "hot boxes", she should have been preserved, but...

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Dad took this photo in 1948 with the Timken on the head end of the Seattle-Portland passenger train.

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Posted 01 January 2022 - 09:11 AM

Filming historic movies, touristic /excursion rides, crew training? Museum exposition?

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Posted 01 January 2022 - 03:58 PM

 SVRy_Steve, on 01 January 2022 - 08:21 AM, said:

Why scrap the four aces? Good question, with no real answer. The scrap price was about $2500 and fans tried to save her. The railroad wanted steam power gone, along with all the shops, water towers, coal towers, etc., as they converted to diesel power. No doubt this had something to do with paying taxes on things that were no longer needed. As a very significant loco in the development of modern steam power and the roller bearing that eventually eliminating "hot boxes", she should have been preserved, but...

np2626train408kyrowa1948fbt.jpg

Dad took this photo in 1948 with the Timken on the head end of the Seattle-Portland passenger train.


But it doesn't look like the builder's photo!

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Posted 01 January 2022 - 04:06 PM

 SVRy_Steve, on 01 January 2022 - 08:21 AM, said:

Why scrap the four aces? Good question, with no real answer. The scrap price was about $2500 and fans tried to save her. The railroad wanted steam power gone, along with all the shops, water towers, coal towers, etc., as they converted to diesel power. No doubt this had something to do with paying taxes on things that were no longer needed. As a very significant loco in the development of modern steam power and the roller bearing that eventually eliminating "hot boxes", she should have been preserved, but...

np2626train408kyrowa1948fbt.jpg

Dad took this photo in 1948 with the Timken on the head end of the Seattle-Portland passenger train.


Should have...
Could have...
Would have...

The money, the know how, the effort, often defeats the best of intentions.

And that's enough clichēs for 2 Jan 22. Happy new year, Stay Safe, Keep Sane!

Cheers Bazza.

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