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So far this is all the information I’ve been able to gather on this little locomotive. I am definitely going to model this as it’s an insanely cool looking loco. New York Central Putnam Division’s Getty Square Branch. New York Central 2-4-4T (Class D) Built by Alco in 1912. Yonkers Branch service (unknown). NYC STEAM LOCOS DATA […]
Follow along as I work on redoing an ancient but still viable Atlas 0-8-0 switcher, with a new motor, new running gear and pretty much new almost everything. All because I can’t find a reasonably priced USRA 0-8-0.
So I decided to dig out a few of my steamers and compare and contrast a set of them. I picked the x-6-0 steamer class. We will compare and contrast the 0-6-0 (not spectrum), the 2-6-0 (somewhere in between) and the 4-6-0 (spectrum). The only one not really considered a spectrum locomotive is the 0-6-0 […]