daveklepper wrote:The only I-5's I know of were the great looking New Haven 4-6-4's. Glad to have ridden behind one on the Yankee Clipper the summer of 1949.
There is an upside to being a geezer. Being able to watch your younger friends turn green with envy when you tell them something like that!!
NYC's I's were Atlantics, but there were no I5s. NYC had only a few Atlantics, since they were produced for only a brief period in the early 20th century. Various subsidiaries ( Big 4, MC/MC-CSO, P&E and P&LE) had them too, but they also had only a single class or two.
As for models, I have no idea about what's available. Try Model Railroader's forums, this forum is more prototypically inclined.
Actually its a New Haven I-5. Never saw any video's of these locosbefore, thanks for the link!
There are/were models in both HO and O scale. MTH made an O-scale version, and I believe there was a brass HO model some years back. There's some info on the MR forum about a BLI HO version coming out soon. A websearch should turn up more. Try New Haven I-5 (or I5, without the hyphen) in google.
hi all i am wondering if you know if any of these locos can be bought in a model, like the one seen here ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVuEcGCG5t8
regards supersix
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