07-04-2012, 01:54 PM
Since my home layout is just a 6ft x 1ft shunting layout I can't give an opinion on pulling power...I hope to bring it to the club layout next Sunday and give it a test on a big layout.
sailormatlac Wrote:I wouldn't say "lazy", but efficient! The model is fairly similar to CNR engines, so I guess the lazy way to CNRize it would be to add a CNR triangular number board, the classic red "license" plate, adding a wood coal bunker extension and (maybe) a little bit more piping to dress up the boiler like the real thing. A bit of white paint on the running board would do the job. Maybe on the drivers, but I don't know an easy way to do that neatly! (Maybe Wayne!?). Sounds like a good 1 evening project.
What are your thought about the pulling power of this engine?
doctorwayne Wrote:It looks like all of the CNR Moguls which were originally Grand Trunk locomotives had four digit numbers, but they were re-numbered with three digit ones when the CNR was formed. Later, the handful of survivors got two digit numbers, freeing the three digit ones for diesels.
Incidentally, CNR's 6018 was a U-1-b Mountain, built in 1924 and scrapped in 1958.
Thanks Wayne!
What about the 3 digits ones? I know that QRL&PCo #22, was supposed to be repainted in CNR livery and get #429 back in 1953 (which didn't occured). I don't have access to anything here during lunch break, but I recalled there was a few other mogul number below this one.
Matt