GN Yellowstones

[jaijef]

Did anyone make GN Yellowstones 4-8-8-2 in HO scale?
Were they green?
Did they have flying pumps on the front?
thank you in advance
jai

[Petey]

According to Drury's book, North Amer. Steam, the GN, did not have 2-8-8-4s.
Denis

[pjb]

The 2-8-8-4 was first built for Northern Pacific , and they applied moniker. They were simple arcs and in other iterations were as high a horse power locomotive as were made according to some authorities. These would have been the Missabe Road's 2-8-8-4s which did not burn the crappy coal used by NP. Second rate "Rosebud" coal and lignite kept the NP locos from achieving potentials. THe Southern Pacific had 2-8-8-4s with conventional arrangement that burned coal in the Southwest and numerous oil burning "cab forward", versions tha operated on their coastal lines and in Nevada . These would have had the wheel arrangement reversed of course.
The only other North American 2-8-8-4s were the smallest of the clan and were the coal fired ,B&O's 'EM-1' class, built during WW2. In narrow gauge the Brazilian 2-8-8-4s were about the most powerful narrow gauge mainline locos ever built. All of these were simple articulateds.