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Published: 2017-08-28 23:53:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 582; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 2
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Mogul #18, a well kept, coal-burning 3ft gauge machine of the Cooke Locomotive Works, plods along tall grassy plains somewhere in the folds of time, probably in the early 1890s. In tow are some of the line's individually unique freight cars, and at the very end, Waycar #1 trails the consist, its lanterns recently lit as the sun continues to lower in the sky.Did some model stuff lately, and felt like doing a little bit of photography. LGB 2-6-0 #18 burns coal after a repaint and sound installation, and the waycar in the back, inspired by the yellow waycars of the DSP&P, has functional track-powered marker lanterns.
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Tis an LGB mogul, as stated. 1985 first generation 2018D. LGB's first moguls were iconic for emulating the DSP&P RR's 2-6-0 moguls, www.rmweb.co.uk/community/uplo… www.ross-crain.com/dsp/plandsp… famously depicted with congdon coal smokestacks, to which many model/toy companies have copied. The ironic part is that the models were given a pile of cordwood in the tender, in an overseas assumption that large spark arrestors = wood burning. (some truth to this, but the Congdon stack was a UPRR design for their coal burning locomotives; docs.google.com/viewer?url=pat… )
Bachmann's two moguls are prototypes far apart from the Cooke prototype LGB used as design inspiration. Their spectrum 2-6-0 is an older spaced-driver 1870s-ish design, while the mining/logging industrial 2-6-0 was built up from their old 2-4-2 models and represents a squat, non-specific prototype likely built after the turn of the century.
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Wow, you really went all in on this. My opologies for not reading the description, and I'm more of a Maine two-footer guy. I actually made a couple small parts for WW&F 9
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