1. Would the 1500 class mountains by light or heavy weight 4-8-2? 2. Would a 4500 class look fairly prototypical if I use an undec. BLI blue line ATSF 4-8-4? 3. How close is the IHC 2-6-0 mogul to the real frisco deal? 4. How big where the driving wheels on a frisco 4-6-0?
1) The 1500-class mountains are sort of in between, but to my eye, they look more like a USRA light mountain, at least 1500-1519. 2) I'm going to guess that BLI is modeling 3751, and probably as it was rebuilt. Well, they were both Baldwin-built, so there is a family resemblance. The drivers and cylinders are going to be off some, but if it doesn't bother you, call it close enough. 3) See http://www.frisco.org/fmig/newsletters/fmig21/fmig21h.htm (can be downloaded from this site, too) for some mogul inforamtion. It doesn't mention the the IHC, so you'll have to find its dimensions. 4)Depends on the class, I think. Are you looking at a specific model?
Not to my eye. I think I had a drawing of the 4500's in NL number 5. I may have also included the AT&SF 4-8-4 drawing in number 5 or 6. There's so much info here on frisco.org to mine. Doug
