Adam, Yes some logging RRs had them. Chehalis Western had 2 of them # 492 & 493. Weyco had one unit that ran out of Vail #481. Weyco also had one that was based at White River as their unit #1, which later got transfered to Vail and re# 714. The Columbia & Cowlitz had one unit and I think it was #701, but I may be wronf about that. Here is a picture of the White River unit I took last year at Snoqualmie. This is the last Weyco FM unit in existence. Ryan
I always get mixed up on my H-##-## designations, but yeah, that's cool. Thanks for the information. This looks like the sort of thing the Tillamook and Astoria Terminal Railway needs, too. I love the cabs on these things - so reminiscent of the steam era.
Adam, I am not sure what the external differences were between the H10-44 and the H12-44 were. I do know though that all the Weyco owned FMs were originally H10-44s and were rebuilt to H12-44 specs at Vail. I am not sure if the CLC was ever rebuilt to a H12-44 or not.
AS-616 ,that would be nice.These FM's are a must to. If Atlas or others come out with any of the others you plan on printing I think the rest of us should pay you for starting the ball rolling. LOL! Thanks for doing these. Rick
What would one use for a chasis for a AS-616? Trust me if someone would make one, I would be up for 2 of these as well. Then I could make a ITT Rayonier log train.
I guess an H20-44 is out of the picture. Looked like an end cab switcher but with an odd wheel base of 27 feet, sort of between a switcher and a road engine. But nothing else matched it. These things replaced 2-6-6-4's on the P&WV. Not very successful as only 96 were built. 2000 horsepower in a switcher body in the 1947-1953 era was thought to be a bit much.
UP used them in helper service on Cajon and Cima Hill whe they " dieselized" in '47. When traffic picked up during the Korean war, steam came back in the form of 4-8-2's, 4-10-2's and 2-10-2's and ran circles around them. Still, I'd love to have at least two of them.... Otto K.
Now... I don't want to jinx your project... but... the chassis you are using is an Atlas VO chassis... and according to Charlie Vlk... its almost a perfect match for an FM H10-44. It would be a no-brainer for 'Atlas' to create the same model. Since Altas has the VO-1000 mechanism which fits the shell you are printing... it's possible that they may already in the planning stage to make the same model you are creating. :~0 That would really be unfortunate for you since you also created some S-2 models too and Atlas and Bachmann have announced both S-2 and S-4 models. A couple of years ago I bought some resin shells for E5A and E5B diesel to be used as engines for some CB&Q Zephyrs. Recently Kato announced the Silver Streak with E5 power... which may render my resin shells unnecessary (still may want to make my own though).
Originally Posted by Inkaneer I guess an H20-44 is out of the picture. Looked like an end cab switcher but with an odd wheel base of 27 feet, sort of between a switcher and a road engine. But nothing else matched it. These things replaced 2-6-6-4's on the P&WV. Not very successful as only 96 were built. 2000 horsepower in a switcher body in the 1947-1953 era was thought to be a bit much. Yeah, they were not much in the speed department but unlike the western roads the eastern ones did not need speed as much as they needed pure lugging power, especially in coal country. The 2-6-6-4's were high drivered power on the N&W but on the P&WV they sported smaller drivers. Open topped cars [coal hoppers] and track with curves and grades plus relatively short branch line track were not made for speed. Right now the model manufacturers have pretty much done all of the most popular locomotives. Now comes the hard decision time do they delve into the less popular ones or do they improve on the ones already tooled maybe adding DCC or redesigning the chassis for plug and play DCC.
Would 28' be close enough? I have a Life-Like FB-1 that my son machined down for me to use as the chassis for a C-415. it is now just the width of the motor. Might be close enough. Cheers Steve
For the H20-44 t may be possible to pull a Ron Bearden and cut down an Atlas RS1 chassis to get the truck placement right, though I do not know how well it would work on the ends of the chassis. Looking at the shot of the RS1 chassis on Spookshow's website (Thanks Mark!!!) the chassis should fit once cut down but it would put one end of the chassis in the cab of the unit. B ( Looks like I will need to do some more digging...
Hmm - so I'm almost ready to order my updated H-10-44 shell. That said, I'm having a bit of trouble getting the cab interior correct. Do any of you guys have/know of where I can find (on the internet preferably) a few decent pictures of an H-10-44 cab interior? Heck even photos of a model in a larger scale would help. If not it's no worries, I can certainly run with what I have; that said I figured that I should ask anyway... Thanks in advance
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