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#21 User is offline   conductorchris 

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Posted 04 March 2017 - 10:25 AM

N&W F's are in the BLWZT Buffalo set, I believe.

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Posted 04 March 2017 - 02:36 PM

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Posted 04 March 2017 - 02:46 PM

In a better world; diesel locomotive technology would have stopped and remained forever at the perfection of the F Unit car body.

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Not only were they beautiful engines, they often led equally beautiful trains.

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Posted 04 March 2017 - 04:21 PM

 batt, on 04 March 2017 - 02:46 PM, said:

In a better world; diesel locomotive technology would have stopped and remained forever at the perfection of the F Unit car body.

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Not only were they beautiful engines, they often led equally beautiful trains.


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Posted 07 March 2017 - 12:46 PM

Something for which I do not have either a screenshot or a prototype photo handy, but a common sight on the D&RGW toward the end of steam and until about the mid 1960's, was the "Perlman Mallet," named for A. E. Perlman, who was the President of the D&RGW that vanquished standard gauge steam on the Rio Grande by the end of 1956. A "Perlman Mallet" consisted of a F cab unit, a F B unit, a GP7 or GP9, another F B unit, and a trailing F cab unit. It got the "Mallet" nickname because the combined units had a tractive effort approximately equal to one of the D&RGW L-131 2-8-8-2 articulated steam locomotives (themselves not "true" Mallet's, but simple articulated locomotives). By the mid-1960's, GP-30's, GP-35's, and SD-45's were replacing the F's, and they, too, began to fade into history. One of today's GEVO locomotives has similar tractive effort to the 5-unit Perlman Mallet, but they are nowhere near as "romantic" as the F's, or those L-131's. One sight that I never got to see personally was a D&RGW freight climbing eastbound up Tennesse Pass or eastbound to the Moffat Tunnel with a Perlman Mallet as the road engine, and an L-131 or two as swing and/or rear helper. Toward the end of steam that combination was fairly common between Alamosa and La Veta on La Veta Pass, as well. That would have been something to see and I did know a couple of people who were firemen on the L-131's in that helper service. They had great memories of all that.

One of my great memories was going to Burnham Yard with my Dad on a Sunday afternoon in the mid-1960's (we had permission, as my Dad did business with the D&RGW back then and knew a number of the railroad officials). Sunday was a slow day back then and there were dozens of F's, plus the then brand new SD-45's (so new that the paint still smelled on them) idling away in the yard (back then, the prime mover was never shut down between 30-day inspections, but would just be left idling). I also saw, up close, about a half dozen F's that had been thoroughly wrecked in a derailment and that were awaiting repair or scrapping. I get a little wistful when I think that my Dad passed away 27 years ago, the F's are nearly gone from existence, and, now, Burnham yard is nearly scrapped. What I have is those memories of that spring Sunday over a half-century ago, when I and the world were a lot younger. I might just have to spring for some Grande F's and a GP-9 and make myself an MSTS/OR Perlman Mallet. In the meantime, maybe someone could post a screenie of a Perlman Mallet?

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Posted 07 March 2017 - 01:08 PM

 SP 0-6-0, on 03 March 2017 - 10:18 PM, said:

Anyone seen any N&W F's? I just looked and can't find any for MSTS.

Robert


The only F's that N&W had were via merger with Wabash. Some of those units are in the BLW/ZT Buffalo set


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Posted 07 March 2017 - 02:29 PM

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Posted 07 March 2017 - 03:58 PM

 thegrindre, on 07 March 2017 - 02:29 PM, said:

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They look good even when they're grungy!

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Posted 07 March 2017 - 05:22 PM

 batt, on 07 March 2017 - 03:58 PM, said:

They look good even when they're grungy!


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Posted 07 March 2017 - 06:18 PM

ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES

B&M FT A-B-B-A set resting at White River Junction

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Several Decades later

CDOT F7s #6690-6691

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