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#51 User is offline   Kenny Eaton 

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Posted 29 March 2017 - 05:02 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


Hi Robert. N&W did have some of these. And it was less than a hand full. I can't remember where I had seen a few photos of them. N&W didn't like these units. They were not by any means "user friendly" for switching or use in the coal fields. Even the units that are made today, NS still purchases these with a control stand instead of the desk top controls. If I run across the F unit photo I will post it.

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Posted 29 March 2017 - 05:05 PM

If you look back through this thread you'll see them. They were acquired with the Wabash, and ran mostly on ex-Wabash property

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Posted 29 March 2017 - 05:08 PM

 Kenny Eaton, on 29 March 2017 - 05:02 PM, said:

Hi Robert. N&W did have some of these. And it was less than a hand full. I can't remember where I had seen a few photos of them. N&W didn't like these units. They were not by any means "user friendly" for switching or use in the coal fields. Even the units that are made today, NS still purchases these with a control stand instead of the desk top controls. If I run across the F unit photo I will post it.


I did run across one over on Train Sim several years ago. Downloaded it, made a consist, opened it in the sim, and deleted it. It wasn't worth writing home about.

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Posted 29 March 2017 - 05:13 PM

 rfranzosa, on 29 March 2017 - 05:05 PM, said:

If you look back through this thread you'll see them. They were acquired with the Wabash, and ran mostly on ex-Wabash property


Hi Rick. If I remember right, It was the Wabash merger that N&W went from the black with gold lettering to the blue and gold paint.

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Posted 29 March 2017 - 05:29 PM

Charles, who made those bumblebee Rio Grande models you have there?

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Posted 29 March 2017 - 05:38 PM

 Kenny Eaton, on 29 March 2017 - 05:08 PM, said:

I did run across one over on Train Sim several years ago. Downloaded it, made a consist, opened it in the sim, and deleted it. It wasn't worth writing home about.


Robert, here is the name of the zip file on TS. nwv2f7a.zip

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Posted 29 March 2017 - 05:47 PM

 MMSS, on 28 March 2017 - 07:52 AM, said:

Sweet shots on the Buffalo.

A lot of talk here on the ex-Wabash F Units of the N&W. What a lot of people don't know that in the late 1960's, some of those N&W F's were leased to the CNJ during their power storage. Some were leased from the B&O too. They were mostly used on the High Bridge Branch but sometimes used on the Southern Division to in A-A form with a Geep or RS-3 unit on the end of them. They were used on the main too & Pennsylvania duties also until operations ceased in 1972. A-A made it easy on the Southern Div. for no turning & the Geep (7 or 9) or RS-3 performed the switching duties. The B&O's were stenciled over with a Liberty Logo & renumbered but doing that to the N&W units would have violated the lease terms. So it was cool seeing foreign power in Lakehurst (I seen it only once in 1971).

Great thread here !!!


These F's are really nice. I have not seen these before.

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Posted 29 March 2017 - 06:50 PM

A veteran A-B-A trio of Gulf, Mobile & Ohio F3 units are still going strong in these late-1960s (pre-Illinois Central merger) images.

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o55/jcatsby/MSTS%20Screens/Hook-Eye/GMO-F3Freight-69/6.GMO-F3.Freight.69.jpg

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o55/jcatsby/MSTS%20Screens/Hook-Eye/GMO-F3Freight-69/4.GMO-F3.Freight.69.jpg

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o55/jcatsby/MSTS%20Screens/Hook-Eye/GMO-F3Freight-69/9.GMO-F3.Freight.69.jpg

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Posted 30 March 2017 - 06:48 AM

Here are a few taken on Paul's latest masterpiece

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8448/29240444750_7dded93878_o.jpg

This one done as a sketch
https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8599/29530236885_16905fa7c1_o.jpg


https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8281/28920758540_065152a5e0_o.jpg

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Posted 30 March 2017 - 09:24 AM

Seaboard Air Line F3A units on the Hook & Eye route
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The Penn Central had really not the most beautiful color scheme, but the F units still look good ...
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