Canadian National U-2-g 4-8-4 Northern Trueline Trains

[Guest CPRAIL3000]

Just a link to a couple of images of my Northern on the layout. Great looking beast.

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nirailfan/8366086028/in/photostream

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nirailfan/8366083048/in/photostream/

[CraigZ]

Well that is lovely, isn't it?  Plastic?  Brass?  Hybrid?

[trisonic]

What he said!

Though if it braked hard the coal would surely kill the crew in a landslide............

 

Best, Pete.

[Guest CPRAIL3000]

Plastic

[Guest CPRAIL3000]

Just a few more images of this beast.

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nirailfan/8367290889/in/photostream/

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nirailfan/8367293541/in/photostream/

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nirailfan/8367296233/in/photostream/

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nirailfan/8368366722/in/photostream/

 

Working on a video now.

[Guest CPRAIL3000]

Here is the video.

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nirailfan/8368472790/in/photostream/

[sjgardiner]

Though if it braked hard the coal would surely kill the crew in a landslide............

 

Best, Pete.

Only if it could get through the solid steel wall on the back of the cab! The CN Northern's were mechanical stoker fired with fully enclosed cabs. In service, if you knew the bunker was full, you wouldn't have opened the main access hatches between the cab and the tender! Piling coal high like that was common in service as can be seen in the shot of a U-2-d from 1949, when you select view all sizes and view larger, coal piled higher than the cab can be seen. http://www.flickr.com/photos/51896204@N08/7467273126/

 

As for the TLT model, i love mine as it's a model of our U-2-g at the Toronto Railway Museum, though it hasn't ever really gotten a chance to run properly and mostly lives as a display piece in the living room of our apartment: http://www.flickr.com/photos/55976115@N00/5653515094/in/set-72157625008990515

 

Someday i'll have a layout with a run designed to let her stretch her legs out.

 

-Stephen

[davknigh]

Just to reinforce what Stephen had to say, here is a view of the rear of the cab of CNR 6167.

 

 

Cheers,

 

David