Double Radius Turnouts

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We had the same calendar, then. I bought it specifically for that one photo. What a monster that beast is! If only BLI would get enough orders that they'd stop putting its production back five or six months at a time, as they have done since 2010.

 

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Does anyone recall the photos from the time the Union Pacific "Union" Class 4-12-2 #9000 was moved to its current place in California in 1954?...

Crandell,

The correct name was "Union Pacific" type, like the SP's 4-10-2 three cylinder locomotives were known as the "Southern Pacific" type. A "Union" type was the monster 0-10-0 switchers used by the Union Railroad for pulling cars up a very steep grade that went from IIRC a river car ferry, up a steep embankment into the main yards of the Union Railroad. While the grade they pulled cars up was even steeper than Saluda in NC, because it wasn't on a main line, it wasn't counted.

 

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Thanks for the correction, Carey.

 

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We had the same calendar, then. I bought it specifically for that one photo. What a monster that beast is! If only BLI would get enough orders that they'd stop putting its production back five or six months at a time, as they have done since 2010.

What! you didn't get one of the MTH ones Crandell?

 

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Uuhhhh....................................................................................................................................................................... No.

I can live with blind drivers and lateral clearance mechanics in the drivetrain of the BLI version, but I just can't accept the toy-like/goofy/disappointing articulated front frame and cylinders. Yeah, I know, we all suspend belief in this hobby to an extent, but I simply can't get myself past that one. I'll do without, perhaps forever. I wouldn't be able to run a nice brass one unless my curves were in the 50" range or thereabouts...I think. Can't afford brass anyway.