I'm usually the guy that comes up with a picture to prove everyone wrong. You know the guys who run around saying, "It never happened." Can't do that this time. I suspect if the NP used an FP7, it was likely one of two. Sorry, I can't prove it happened.
Thanks for your efforts. That gets me off the hook for trying to come up with photographic proof. I can now focus on finding those undocumented "barn finds" such as the elusive New York Central Hudson tucked away in a warehouse somewhere in Ohio.
If one is to be found, I'm sure it will be Roger Hensley or Jim Fitzgerald who will find it. Maybe there's one up in Ontario that the Central loaned to CP, and was overlooked with dieseization of both roads....?
If Kato does ever get around to making an NCL, it might be better if they don't see this: http://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/fileSe...imageType/LARGE/inlineImage/true/DSCF3563.JPG
Russell, Barn finds...LOL. I'm still looking for that illusive F7 in Daylight paint that SP ran over the Tehachapi Pass. Heard it was stored in the old train station but it burned down. Oh well! Now back to the subject at hand. I may actually be living up to my reputation! I may not be to far off from right or was that wrong? According to Wikipedia, Northern Pacific had two FP 7's #6600-6601. See: Railroads that ordered the FP 7 And the: Northern Pacific Roster How about a picture? I can get you to one: NCL, Northern Pacific with FP 7 on the point. See this old dog can still hunt, peck, waddle, flounder and eventually stumble into finding something on the internet. Good news. Sometimes!
There was ONE FP7 in the SP umbrella that was painted in Daylight. It was Cotton Belt 330/306 (renumbered in 1952), was repainted into bloody nose before being sent to California....
We've seen that one. Unfortunately, by the time that photo was taken in 1971, the railroad was no longer the Northern Pacific but had become the Burlington Northern. So, the rivet counters claim it doesn't quite count.
Dang! Well, don't stop with just the picture do check out the other links. They might count. Here's one more. Check out 6600-6601: http://www.thedieselshop.us/NorPac.HTML Right you are they did become part of the BN. The question is what were they before that happened? If that doesn't make you rivet counters happy, will a NP F3 do the trick? Do I get a free pass and question? Did any model making genius make a passenger F7 with a steam generator? Grin!
Regardless of whether an FP7 was used on the NCL, one is not needed at all to make the train and the existence of a Kato FP7 doesn't make an NCL more likely for any reason. Jason
That's going to make a bunch of those Northern railroaders real happy you said that. Hate to think what could happen if they take to the streets to protest. LOL
Although Jim Conway has more recently changed his philosophy in regard to applying almost any paint scheme to almost any model, you just know that had Con-Cor been selling a GG1 a couple of decades ago it would surely have been available in NP Loewy two-tone green.
You got to love the work Jim Conway and the ConCor gang are doing. How about those Great Northern passenger cars? With Micro-Trains wheels, trucks and knuckle couplers. Wow! Living up to performance expectations. There are a number of custom painted NP passenger cars floating around out there. I've thought about building a NP passenger train but having just put together a close facsimile of a GN EB train I need to call it quits and pay off some bills.
You are correct. The photo is of an F-9. The Northern Pacific only had two FP-7's. 6600 and 6601 and they did pull the North Coast Limited from time to time. I saw an old photo that my uncle took many years ago, but they were in the older pine tree paint scheme in the photo taken in Livingston, MT.
Ah ha! So there was one disguised as a bloody nose. Yeah, I know I finally figured that out. Nice to know we are all in agreement...this time. Grin!
