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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by HighIron2003ar That engine is a seriously good model. Maybe BLI can make a copy. The Jawn Henry was not a "failure". [/quote] The Jawn Henry was a very successfull design it was an amazing piece of machienery It was the N&Ws last attempt to fend off the diesel and it was only beat by the cheap economics of diesel not tractive effort. As for the Chessie I think #500 is preserved in the B&O museum at Baltimore I may be wrong on that. The Union Pacific had a ALCO GE built gas turbine the most successfull of all theTurbine designs but was powered by bunker c fuel oil,and was not a result of trying to keep coal as the #1 source of fuel as with the Chessie and Jawn Henry.Lionel released a model in their doomed HO scale effort with QSI equipped sound and it is an exceptional model. The up ran two versions the 4500 hp and 8500 hp they were called Big Blows and or Verandas. The Brass model of the Chessie usually sells for about 1500.00 I seen one at a show setting beside a GM Areo Train both in Brass and they are beautiful Models.If I were a rich man both would be setting on my shelves today.I to would hope that one day these and other more exotic locos will be produced in a price range that would allow the common modeler to obtain one,instead of just collectors There is some very good reading on these engines in a recent issue of classic trains.If money was no object 900.00 would be a very good deal on the Chessie.Terry.
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