What happened to the Lt. Mountain 4-8-2

[Hoople]

Paul, I can't read the road number, but if that is SP, I stand corrected.

All I got were pictures of the semi-streamlined engines when I searched:

Southern Pacific 4300 class mountains

[Les]

What is the history behind calling them "mountains"?  Were they first used in the mountains?

[RAM]

Les Yes

[SteamGene]

The complete story is that the Mountain came from the C&O's run between Charlottesville, Va and Hinton, WVA.  They went to the 4-8-2 to end doubleheading Pacifics and called it the Mountain as it went over the Blue Ridge and the the Alleghany Mountains.
Gene

[Paul M.]

Hoople,

it's SP 4314.

the 4-8-2 is picture #28 on this sight:
http://users.snowcrest.net/photobob/spl.html

[Paul M.]

bump

[Guilford Guy]

They are nice engines and I could have sworn I saw some on sale at MB Kleins. I've seen several at the club and have been tempted to buy one. For now I have an old Bowser/Mantua 4-8-2 lettered for B&M. Anyone wanna trade

[RAM]

W hat is a Bowser/Mantua 4-8-2?  Bowser makes one but not mantua.

[Guilford Guy]

Then it must be bowser. It had a tender similar to mantua's pacific.

[Ozzie]

Just a point from a non-US based modeller.
i dont know if the Lt.Mountain is prototypically decaled or not.
To my foreign eyes it looks great, it reflects my perceptions of "big" US locomotives and runs very very well.
Besides I can mark it to suite my road easy enough and those that can and do pick the discrepancies are not invited to visit.
The theme of my layout is enjoy!!