Crane Valves... Curling, Mining and Steam Locomotives!

[Flintlock76]

Oh, so THAT'S what it is!  

I was wondering if it was one of those older O gauge "All the way on, or all the way off"  smoke units.

Some of those things would make a yard fogger jealous, trust me!

[Deggesty]

Flintlock76

Those are some gorgeous trains!  Sunset 3d Rail and Golden Gate Depot, a little too 'high-end" for my wallet!  

I wonder why the smoke's turned off on the Hudson?

The layout looks kind of bare, maybe after buying the trains he can't afford to scenic the layout?  

 

He's saving the smoke for use later,when he is really running on the road.

[Flintlock76]

Those are some gorgeous trains!  Sunset 3d Rail and Golden Gate Depot, a little too 'high-end" for my wallet!  

I wonder why the smoke's turned off on the Hudson?

The layout looks kind of bare, maybe after buying the trains he can't afford to scenic the layout?  

[Jones1945]

Overmod

Wasn't it the Mercury K5s that pioneered the lighted drivers? 

I think it was. The Southern Pacific's Daylight 4-8-4s adopted the idea but I am not sure when it started (GS-2?)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dJKDfrqlng#t=02m6s

[Flintlock76]

In all my reading of General Patton I've never seen anything that said he was a railfan, or even owned any electric trains for that matter, although as a very wealthy man he could have afforded any top-of-the-line Standard Gauge Lionel or Wide-Gauge American Flyer set.

He WAS a pretty good amateur sailor though.  His sailboat "When and If" is still in existance and afloat.  And here it is...

https://sailwhenandif.com  

Remarkably, his first  yacht  "Arcturus" is still around as well, and here she  is...

http://www.classicboatcharter.com  

The legend lives on...

[wjstix]

Mars lights were pretty well established before WW2 started; pretty sure the Milwaukee F-7 "Baltics" had them from the start in 1938.

The opposite might be more likely, that the factory that made the Mars lights might have been converted to make lights for the Navy during the war.

[Overmod]

Wasn't it the Mercury K5s that pioneered the lighted drivers?

[Jones1945]

I guess General Patton loved the Dreyfuss Hudsons for those lights installed under the boiler and streamlined shrouding which lit up the drivers. I wish Pennsy's Loewy engines had the same cool feature installed. 

The Mars lights on the C&NW Class H-1 (rebuilt in 1946) and those installed on the MILW's F7s reminds me of the naval morse code spotlight of WWII, so I wondered if they were converted from military surplus. 

 

[Flintlock76]

I'm not sure about military surplus Mars lights.  Aside from use on military fire apparatus, and even then, I don't know of any purpose the military would have had for Mars lights.  I could be wrong though. 

I could see General Patton putting them on his custom command cars and jeeps though, he liked flashy vehicles!  

[Jones1945]

I almost completely forgot about the army surplus of WWII, I wonder if the larger Mars light on the C&NW Class H-1 came from military war surplus and what model was it...

https://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr679.htm

 

[wjstix]

Miningman

Every Mining company in Canada builds a curling rink before the headframe goes up. Mining and Curling go hand in hand.

 

 

Helps explain why Canadians are the world's best curlers...or at least were the best - up until the last Olympics anyway.

[Overmod]

Flintlock76

I blew up the ad, and that "flash" on the tender's pretty nondescript.

To be perfectly honest, I think it's supposed to be a flash of light from an open firedoor.  That face, the auxiliary light over the headlight, and the visible outside 'banjo' frame say to me that the artist was channeling a C&NW H class.  Appropriate for a win-the-war-now choice, especially as rebuilt the first time...

[Miningman]

Every Mining company in Canada builds a curling rink before the headframe goes up. Mining and Curling go hand in hand.

[Flintlock76]

That steam engine certainly looks big and bodacious enough to be "Wild Mary's" 734, or a LS&I  hog, whatever the case may be.

I blew up the ad, and that "flash" on the tender's pretty nondescript.  No matter, it's a cool picture!  

Just as cool as the ice in that curling rink!

[BaltACD]

Overmod

And not just any steam locomotive -- isn't that a Western Maryland locomotive just like 734?

But back then the WM 734 was actually a Lake Superior and Imshemping locomotive.  734 is not a original WM locomotive.

[Miningman]

Yes I think so.. can make out a fireball on the tender and a very faint 7xx as the loco number, maybe 728?  Good eye!! 

[Overmod]

And not just any steam locomotive -- isn't that a Western Maryland locomotive just like 734?

[Miningman]

What more does a Mining Engineer need? Curling, Jack Legs, shooting down the bad guys and Steam locomotives. 

 

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