Eastern Railroads

[bob turner]

So no fair posting anything that could not be found east of the Mississippi? I shall start with New Haven:

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[Seaboard Air Line Fan]

I'll play, but need to take some better photos.

Never saw any electrics down here in southeastern Virginia, but the Virginian Rwy had a bunch up in the mountains.

Bob, do you still possess all the engines you've posted photos of or have you gotten rid of any? I have plenty but I'm still fighting the urge to buy more.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Maybe Bob will show us a pic of his D16...................

[Seaboard Air Line Fan]

Here's a fresh snap of my Lionel 4-8-2 that was modified/painted into Seaboard Air Line Mountain #240 with scratchbuilt Vanderbilt brass tender:

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I used a piece of brass bar rail to make the tender body.

All my steamers have been converted from 3-rail to 2-rail, and Battery/RC control. They still have the pizza flanges but hey, 1 step at a time!

So, are we limiting this to engines only???

[ScaleCraft]

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So..this is the "Eastern Railroads" thread.....and here is an example. 1939 to be a bit more precise.

[HHS]

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George Stock built Reading I8.
Hugh

[J. S. Bach]

I shall start with New Haven:

I have two of those; one painted in the same scheme and one painted black and lettered "D&IM"????? I do not know why but it is. Note that each has a different drive, also. No pictures as they are packed away right now.

[rogruth]

I'm sure that Eastern Railroads would be severely criticized by todays midelers for the screws on
the trucks even if everything else about the cars was perfect.
Dave, is that your car? A real piece of model railroad history. I would not change anything about it.

[bob turner]

I guessed at George Stock before I saw this. He was a good builder, and an exquisite hand letterer. How about some close ups of the locomotive?

[ScaleCraft]

I'm sure that Eastern Railroads would be severely criticized by todays midelers for the screws on
the trucks even if everything else about the cars was perfect.
Dave, is that your car? A real piece of model railroad history. I would not change anything about it.

yes...even with the raw ore couplers and CTC resistor across one set of sideframes.
In with four or five wood boxes of ScaleCraft freight cars on it's way to the dump. Seriously.
I never told the HOBBY SHOP OWNER who gave me the boxes of "junk" what I found. Moron.

[ScaleCraft]

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L1s Mikado.
Built this decades ago.
Not a fan any more of eastern roads, altho I was a PRR fan in my early years...then I found Northern Pacific.

[rogruth]

Dave,
Is that a modified Lionel?
If so, what was it?

[ScaleCraft]

Dave,
Is that a modified Lionel?
If so, what was it?

Research showed me long ago that PRR standardization used the same boilers on K4's and L1's. That bit of trivia rattled around my skull for a long, long time.
After I had switched to NP, I remembered it during a night of booze and debauchery....oh wait...while listening to Mantovani.
Since I had an abundance of Lionel 675 boilers (K4 wanna be's?) after converting all mine to 225E non-Belpaire boilers....I decided I needed to find a Turbine chassis.
I decided I wanted an early non-MagneTraction with tyres on the drivers....drivers, rods, frame, gears, motor and E-unit...and I would pay ten bucks. ALL the TTOS and TCA folks I knew laughed their hineys off.
So, one day, at a local TCA meet, first sale table, I see..an early, jackshaft 671 chassis.....no lead or trail trucks..frame, drivers, rods, dead level horizontal motor, meaning jackshaft and two driven drivers...and e-unit...and I looked at the tag...ten bucks.
Paid the man, and went and locked it in the boot of the car.
So...a buddy of mine, retired toolmaker at Boeing, and a gunsmith....milled out the firebox of the 675 to accept the 671 motor and chassis...made the pilot steps from photos....had a broken smokebox front (markers broken off), filed it smooth, mounted replacements back on the smokebox as PRR did...found a tender that worked better than others for the job...fitted up main rods and valve gear.....paint and decals...and it's all Lionel (except for the pilot beam and steps), and a 2-8-2 like Lionel should have made from Lionel parts 50 years or more before they finally did.
Pulls like you would not believe.

[rogruth]

Nice!

[bob turner]

I was going to work my way down - New Haven, NYC, PRR - but PRR has a special place:

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