Sorry, upside down again. Really too big to be sensible on my branchline layout. I bring her out to switch the interchange at the main line. I do have a Frisco one with a stripped out mechanism. Need to buy one on eBay to get a good mechanism for it, maybe from a useless road like NYC or PRR .
Patrick, what happens when you turn the photo upside down on your computer and then post the photo? Maybe it will be right side up. Just a thought. Joe
If you put pictures on here in media section you can change their orientation via media tools, but dont know if you can add them to a post or not. Never tried it. You could always download from media if cant post from media and reorient then put in post. Just downloaded your photo to phone and reoriented as a test, Hope u dont mind. I do same by phone although do have a laptop if need be. Nice photo by the way! You mentioned was to big but looks great. What is it?
How did you reorient the photo in an iPhone? That’s a Bachmann light USRA 4-8-2. One of the nicest engines they ever made. I wish they’d made their mikado with the same detail and finesse.
Well its not an iphone its an LG but it has an edit function with the camera/photo gallery function. No clue about how to do on an iphone Bachmann has done good with a few of their steamers and diesels. Spectrum 45 tonner and 4-4-0 I have are nice. The Broadway Limited Mikados are nice as well as pricey. The 4-4-0 has been used for a train dedicated to the former president of the museum who passed last year. He was a good friend and ATSF modeler and historian so i did it in Santa Fe with his name on tender. The train is operated on the museum layout on special occaisons but normally kept inside a display case. I operate most off my model railroad items on the museum layout. However i do have an 11 x 5 home layout but not in use at this time.
Open the photo from your iPhone camera roll, then you will see Edit in the upper right. Select Edit and just to the right of Cancel, you will see an icon with two arrows circling a cropping symbol. Select that to show an icon to rotate the image 90 degrees each time.
PRR i would agree to in some degree but still was part of the American rail network, good or bad, but i am a NYC system fan (sorry). NYC had its value and worth at one point, and like the Frisco became a fallen flag. Let the dead rest in peace. Somewhere they may be a PRR or NYC person saying a useless Frisco and that wouldnt be right or fair.
"NYC useless." Oh... I dunno'. We all have our quirks. I think the NYC had some mighty fine looking stuff, like those Hudson's, etc. BUT... one of my most favorite-ist NYC engines came off the Big Four and went to the Missouri & North Arkansas/Missouri & Arkansas. I, for one, just think those big (for the North Arkansas) 40 Class consols are the berries! What a brute! Andre
Well i wouldn't class any railroad useless per say rather than just not caring about certain ones in particular. If was forced to choose would be NYC over PRR though. Pennsy never appealed to me is all, but when they both merged to form PC that was it. Obviously went over about as well as a porcupine working in a ballon factory. PRR did have a few awesome, unigue and brutish steam locomotives and electrics, primarily the classic GG1s. All NYC Hudsons were the primo 4-6-4 type to me, i am especially fond of the "Flash Gordon" streamlined ones , but thats a personal preference and may not be to others but i am good with that. I do like that 2-8-0 though, looks mighty fine and not screaming out its NYC/Big Four heritage, and seems ready to take on the world. So M&NA initials were above the numbers on the cab but all tenders were just lettered North Arkansas ? How were the M&A ones identified/lettered? M&A initials i presume. Thank you for sharing that Andre.
I love the old M&NA, have their history book, have visited the nice exhibit at the museum in Harrison AR, and am familar with that ex NYC consolidation. It was a poor purchase, too heavy for their track. The big sunbeam headlight is especially cool, the T&NO had them on everything. But the M&NA had other fine looking engines too. The only thing I didn’t like about them was the single note hoot or peeper whistle found on many of them, an unfortunate feature of many L&A engines as well. The saddest picture in that book is of 2 steam engines in the shop ready to go but they never would, the railroad was already closed. It was much like the old Carson and Colorado that was built “300 miles too long or 300 years too soon.”
Hi Karl: The lettering of the North Arkansas went through several iterations, and I doubt it was consistent across the board. The first modification came with the loss of the pinstripes. Once the M&NA morphed into the M&A, the earliest scheme(s) looked like this: Once the circle herald became vogue for the M&A, they looked like this: However, some of them may not have had their painted numbers/etc kept in decent shape. I see no evidences of lettering in this picture of #40: However, at one time it did indeed have painted numbers and a circular herald: SO, I think the North Arkansas had grand intentions, but often fell short in the execution of same, numbers and such included. Patrick: Yes, the 40 Class was not an adequately thought-out purchase. Soon after committing to the purchase, the Bridge & Buildings crews got busy beefing up the bridges in order to use them. Purchasing the 40 Class: Not a wise move, there, W. Stephenson. Andre
Yes i like those headlights especially. Visors on headlights even if not "sunbeams" always makes them look better to me. I am also an SP/SSW/T&NO fan and whatever others went into SP lines. (EP&SW, etc.)
Well they all look good no matter what. Too bad they dumped the striping. What was the striping color? I really like the 43 and 40 with the circle emblems. TT shot of 43 is really nice. KCM&O at some point obtained some old NYC 2-8-0 s but they were somewhat smaller as i recall, dont look as brutish. They stayed on for a while after ATSF took in the Orient and Santa Fe ized all the motive power they retained. Hard to tell they were ex NYC in the later years. Thanks.
I will have to have a look at the Pacifics again and see. I cant remember at the moment but did they have a resemblance to the Hudsons? Have to dig out my NYC steam books. Kinda focused just on the Hudson types mainly as they were my favorites of the Central.
They much more resembled SP Harriman Pacifics. Bowser had a model of it back in the model railroad Jurassic.
