Fellas,I received a desktop calender this past Christmas with trivia from the B&O Railroad. Today's trivia and image is from October 18, 1948 on that day the B&O's Mt Clare Shop completed construction of their 40th Mountain Type Locomotive. I did some research and can not find ANY examples of the B&O Mountain Type Locomotive, only PRR, and a few others - mostly the Mohawk 4-8-2. Does anyone know if any of the manufacturers have produced an authentic rendering of the B&O Mountain Type?
According to B&O POWER (Sagle & Staufer), the shop force at our beloved Mt.Clare constructed 40 4-8-2 type MOUNTAINS during the 40's. They wanted to buy diesels, but the wartime effort wouldnt permit that, so they took the boilers and shells from retired Pacidics and Mikados, and made longer. These were the class T-3.
B&O also purchased 13 4-8-2's from the BOSTON & MAINE, and were given the class T-4.
I did a limited search for O-gauge trains, and wasn't able to locate anything RTR for either B&O or B&M. However, the new LIONEL 4-8-2 engine is very close in profile to the B&O MOUNTAIN. You would however need a 6 axle Vanderbuilt tender, or six axle square tender to make it right.
...and a talented friend with an airbrush...
The only source that I can think of that might have made one eould be Sunset Models/3rd Rail.
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Fife - Thank you for the 'history lesson'! One can ALWAYS count on you for anything related to WM, C&O, B&O lore! I took a look at the Lionel engines and WOW are they impressive... at $1,099.95 they better danged well be! http://www.lionel.com/Products/Finder/ProductDetail.cfm?ProductNumber=6-28058&expandBranch=0&Keywords=4-8-2&CategoryID=0&RailLineID=&CatalogId=Doug - Thank you sir! I KNEW I had seen the T-3s somewhere. After seeing the price tag on the Lionel the sticker shock wasn't as bad on the 3rd Rail version! I really like the Vandy Tender version.http://www.3rdrail.com/images/bot3-rect.jpghttp://www.3rdrail.com/images/bot3vandy.jpgJust too bad that BOTH Lionel's and 3rd Rail's require O-54.Maybe I need to redesign the layout.... Wonder what The Q would have to say about that...
Whooaaah! Now hold on there cowboy...
As your friend and RR-advisor, I recommend you give up this quest, and concentrate on picking up some 2-8-2's.
After all...B&O gave them the "Q" class!
I have a B&O Mikado. The comment about redoing the layout was a joke! LOL! I may look into getting a Mountain Type in the future, but not right now... to many other things that require funding.
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