Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Wordless Wednesday #47

NKP Mikado 633 still with her Elesco Feedwater Heater heads north on the Warrenton wye to Mingo Junction, 4-15-1950

4 comments:

  1. Chris,

    Awesome blog. I grew up in Adena and love the old pics of trains on the tracks in town. It really makes me wish we had digital cameras in the 80's.

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  2. Thanks for stopping by! I wish you had a digital camera back then too, would make my research a little easier!

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  3. Great photo. It might just be the angle this photo was taken, but that looks like quite a large tender for a Mikado. It could very well be that they really did put a bigger tender on this particular locomotive different from the one you would normally see on it. Broadway Limited Imports has a nice looking 2-8-2 in NKP #685 and it looks like their tender is quite a bit smaller than the one depicted here.

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  4. That type of tender on the 633 is often referred to as the "Berkshire" tender, a little different but similar enough to use one for modeling purposes.
    The 633 is a Light Mikado whose numbers went up to the 669. Starting at 670 to 689 were the ex-W&LE Heavy Mikados. The Broadway Heavy Mikado is a excellent engine and you're right the tenders are too small. I believe the bigger tenders from the 2-6-6-2s were swapped and rebuilt even larger at some point before the NKP lease.

    All that and more will make a good post when I get into reworking a few of my steam engines for the layout.

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