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LAST EDITED ON Aug-13-02 AT 01:01 AM (EDT)
Is this an early verion of a Train Simulator? I always thought the gauges, etc... were attached to the back of the boiler/firebox, and the cab just kind of fit over and around the boiler/firebox. Can anyone explain this?
Mike Rector
NORFOLK & WESTERN
Precision Transportation
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Well, what you have there is the earliest kind of Kit. Basically when a railroad couldn't buy a whole locomotive, they'd get parts on a slow basis, and then piece together the locomotive when they got the time.Nah, Maybe it's just a stealth locomotive...we can't see the boiler and so on because it's invisible.
ok, all joking aside. Seriously? I'd guess that it's a mock up to get an idea of how something that's coming will work out. Or maybe even test fit the guages before they go on the actual locomotive.
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One clue is the paint job. The number and roadname are seen on the cab side. I am 99.9% certain the J's NEVER had this scheme. Not even the 600 (first one). They started putting Norfolk & Western on tender in the 40's. About the time of #600's birth. Previously, it was on the cab. So maybe it was built during the middle of this transition time period, and the scheme didn't make it to loco completion.
Mike Rector
NORFOLK & WESTERN
Precision Transportation
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