Heavy Mountain

[in_eden]

If there is to be another run of the Heavy Mountain, Bachmann should consider running B&O as a road name. Also Boston and Maine, as they each ran over 50 mountains, many of which were the same heavy mountains (B&O purchased them in 1952).
There is a lack of B&O steam out there... an even greater lack of prototypical B&O steam.
There has to be a market out there!

[brokemoto]

B&O built two heavy 4-8-2s in the mid-1920s as passenger power.

Two more freight 4-8-2s came in 1930.

From 1942 to 1948, there were even more 4-8-2s, all intended as freight power.

In 1947, B&O bought 4-8-2s from B&M.  B&M had ordered these primarily as freight power, but they were also useful as passenger power.

B&O subsequently discovered that the T-3s were also useful as passenger power.  They often pulled the mail and express trains.

None of the B&O 4-8-2s looked like the USRA designs, not even the B&Ms, which Baldwin built in the mid-1930s.

B&O did operate USRA power:  light mikados light pacifics and 0-6-0s.  There was also a class of copies of the USRA light pacifics as well as a class of USRA heavy pacific copies.  B&O also rebuilt several older pacifics into USRA heavy lookalikes.

I would not mind seeing some class T or class T-3, or even T-4, as B&M modellers could use the last, as well.

Higher on my list is a P-7 or P-1d and a Q-4.  Most of the last, even though they were mikados, did have steam lines and signalling devices so that they could be pressed into service as passenger power.

V-classes?, maybe in brass.

[the Bach-man]

Dear In,
We should have an idea about what items will be re-run within the month.
Happy Holidays!
the Bach-man