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Re: Maryland & Pennsylvania RR NW2 Diesel Switcher #81
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lugnet.trains
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Date:
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Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:01:41 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Cale Leiphart wrote:
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Maryland & Pennsylvania NW2 Diesel Switcher #81
Originally formed in 1901 from several narrow gauge lines, the now standard
gauge Maryland & Pennsylvania RR railroad (Ma & Pa to its fans) traced a
meandering seventy-seven mile route to connect Baltimore Md. and York
Pennsylvania, two cities only forty-five highway miles apart. The line’s
surveyors could hardly have chosen a more picturesque route and was often
referred to as the “model railroad built to the scale of 12 inches to the
foot”.
The Ma & Pa like many railroads began to dieselize it line with the purchase
of an EMD
SW1 #70 and 2 EMD
NW2 Switchers #80 and 81. The
switchers suited the Ma & Pa’s tight curves well and served for many years.
In 1997 NW2 #81 was donated to the The Railroad
Museum of Pennsylvania and is the subject of my latest Train MOC.
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Okay, so I was just scrolling down through the images and thinking to myself,
“hum, nice interpretation of an nw/sw switcher” until I saw what you have under
the hood. Wow! It is hard enough getting the right detail on the outside of a
4-8 wide hood, to then get such a realistic engine under the hood too! Well, I
guess it goes along with your bay window caboose for being over the top inside
and out.
Only one minor suggestion- the hand rails seem too bulky. Perhaps using the hose
for the vertical and mech-arms for the horizontal would lighten it up?
And one minor request- more photos of the prime mover so others can cop... I
mean marvel at the detail (grin).
Very nice,
Benn
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