BRAKIE I still enjoy switching with my BB GP7 as much as I do with my Walthers P2K GP7 or my Genesis GP9.
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John Allen used to assign a Shay locomotive to yard duties at Great Divide just so the operators would be forced to switch freight cars slowly.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
DSchmitt Posted by BMMECNYC on Tuesday, May 09, 2017 5:39 PM "Model Railroader Cyclopedia Volume 2 Diesel Locomotives shows F7B units with Steam Generators. B&M F7As did not appear to have SG, but the B units did." ---------- From http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=77&t=68370 Boston & Maine F7 "F-7's 4265 - 4268 were purchased for freight service, but found their way into summer passenger service early in their careers. They were not built with steam generators, but some of the B units were retrofitted with steam generators in the 1960's to work on the "Ambassador" and "Montrealer" - "Washingtonian" service from Springfield,Mass. to White River Jct.,Vt. until those trains were abolished in 1966. Both the F-7a's and F-7b's had dynamic brakes when built, but had them removed and the hatch blanked over sometime in the late 1960's - early 1970's."
Posted by BMMECNYC on Tuesday, May 09, 2017 5:39 PM
"Model Railroader Cyclopedia Volume 2 Diesel Locomotives shows F7B units with Steam Generators.
B&M F7As did not appear to have SG, but the B units did."
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From http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=77&t=68370
Boston & Maine F7
"F-7's 4265 - 4268 were purchased for freight service, but found their way into summer passenger service early in their careers. They were not built with steam generators, but some of the B units were retrofitted with steam generators in the 1960's to work on the "Ambassador" and "Montrealer" - "Washingtonian" service from Springfield,Mass. to White River Jct.,Vt. until those trains were abolished in 1966. Both the F-7a's and F-7b's had dynamic brakes when built, but had them removed and the hatch blanked over sometime in the late 1960's - early 1970's."
That checks with the photo I found of 4265A and a B unit, only the B had the steam generator.
BMMECNYC PRR8259 Perhaps one reason I'm getting into brass steam power is the "experts" out there have either left the regular day-to-day-able-to-post-online-and-critique scene, or they have little interest/funds to be able to purchase/critique/modify said models to suit themselves. It is a little bit easier to appreciate a fine steamer when people aren't shredding it online, like some seem to do with the latest fill in the blank diesel. The NJCB Boston and Maine 2-10-2 has 4" undersized drivers.... I bought it anyway. Why? Close enough, and no one else makes one. Am I going to change it, no.
PRR8259 Perhaps one reason I'm getting into brass steam power is the "experts" out there have either left the regular day-to-day-able-to-post-online-and-critique scene, or they have little interest/funds to be able to purchase/critique/modify said models to suit themselves. It is a little bit easier to appreciate a fine steamer when people aren't shredding it online, like some seem to do with the latest fill in the blank diesel.
The NJCB Boston and Maine 2-10-2 has 4" undersized drivers.... I bought it anyway. Why? Close enough, and no one else makes one. Am I going to change it, no.
Plus it has DCC and Sound, and runs amazingly.