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anonymousMember
I can’t wait to see you guys there!
anonymousMemberIf memory serves, those engines were assigned by the USRA to the PRR, but the self-proclaimed “Standard” didn’t want standardized engines not born in Juniata. I don’t know if the PRR actually used them much or not (I can’t get to my copy of MoPac Power right now), but MoPac benefited from PRR haughtiness.
June 8, 2021 at 1:27 am in reply to: Any interest in writing an article on the 2200’s vs the FTs? #10179anonymousMemberSend me the scan.
I can try my hand at an article.anonymousMemberGreat!
Need any help?anonymousMemberHow accurate are the Accurail 2-bay ACF cars for MP/C&EI?
I suspect not very.I did inform them there is a typo in the tar weight, one digit too many!
anonymousMemberLooking through my image collection for Alcos,
49 PA in blue.
RS-11 70 .4.75.77.72, and 954.
RS3m – 1069 up to 1097, 16 images.Thomas
DeSoto, TXanonymousMember@2100Northern wrote:
is this a new book? Jerry Michels
Yes, Morning Sun November 15th issue.
anonymousMemberOK, I have my hotel reservation.
When can I register for the convention itself?
And I want to get on several of the tours!
Especially the TRRA tour.And does anyone want to carpool from Dallas? I have an empty seat.
anonymousMemberOld topic, and a little tangential, but figured I might chip in. If 3D printed tenders and modifications for various commercially available Mikes are potential options, why not also 3D print a boiler for the MoPac’s fat-boilered 1400 Mikes to fit on existing commercially available chassis? If we’ll hand-wring over tenders, why not get the whole engine right too?
anonymousMemberThank you, Nate.
anonymousMemberI’ll be painting a couple of these Intermountain models in either MP 705500-705999 or 706800-706999 as delivered. These cars were delivered in what looks like a very light gray, almost white. Is there a good starting point for that color? Maybe match the paint on an existing model?
anonymousMemberThe Tsunami2-2 matches for those are 39, the Nathan 5 chime and 76, the replica long bell 6 chime.
66/67, the Frisco 6 chimes, are similar to the rizzoli 5 chime.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Wiki_6_chime_b.jpg
I don’t think the two rizzoli sound samples for 5 chime and 6 chime were the only sounds on the MP. Studying photographs reveals diversified heights of these multi cell whistles, meaning variations in pitch even if the relative tuning stayed the same.
anonymousMemberWhen I was little, both the T&NO and the MP back home in new Iberia LA were still in steam, the MP till 1954 I think and the T&NO till late 1956. We lived equidistant from each line so I know I heard each railroad, and I remember the sounds quite well. I heard mostly high pitched 5 chimes but do recall a couple of 6 chimes.
The 5 chime sounds I heard were mostly pretty close to number 45 on the TSU 2200, oddly called a Reading 6 chime, but whistle 19, a D&RGW 5 chime, is almost identical. Whistles 37 and 38, called Nathan 5 chimes, actually resemble the deep toned 6 chimes I heard in the night.
There’s no telling which railroad these sounds came from. But even at that age I was paying a lot of attention to trains, so there’s some chance thst MP
engines were in the mix.anonymousMemberDoes this whistle collector have any MP 5 chimes or 6 chimes? If so, they ought to be blown on air and recorded. Compressed air doesn’t give the same full tone as steam, but we could hear what the tuning is.
There are three or four Nathan choices in the Tsunami2-2 2200. To me, whistles 37 and 38, Nathan 5 chimes, sound too deep toned for 5 chimes, may have been recorded on low pressure, but they sound like 6 chimes to me. 39 is a nicely tuned 5 chime.
I also really like numbers 66 and 67, the Frisco 6 chime, and use them on my MP engines all the time. But I also use nearly all the 5 chime and 6 chime choices at times.
anonymousMemberThere was a lot of interchange through TRRA and A&S in St Louis. From there it could go anywhere.
Once Chicago was opened via C&EI, MP could interchange with about any other railroad (except the BCR and RFP!).
I do not have numbers, but the MKT was very not happy when MP/UP merged.
The eastern roads interchanges at the Mississippi, Western roads at El Paso and Omaha, with some at Pueblo.There were also differences on commodity. Oil out of Texas might to heavy one month east through Memphis, next month north to Seattle on the C&S/CBQ.
And thousands of crossings with an interchange track.
Pick a favorite!Sounds like a fine idea for an Eagle article, traffic patterns over the years.
Thomas
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