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Bachmann 4-8-4 Northan w/52′ Tender
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The 4-8-4 was first used by the Northern Pacific Railway in 1925 and the type was thereafter named “Northern”. Most railroads used this name, but a number adopted different titles, including Confederation (Canadian National), Golden State (Southern Pacific), Niagara (New York Central and NdeM), Pocono (DL&W), Wyoming (Lehigh Valley Railroad), Dixie (NC&StL), Big Apple (Central of Georgia Railway), Greenbrier (Chesapeake and Ohio Railway), Western (D&RGW), Potomac (Western Maryland Railway) while the RF&P gave each of its three classes a separate title: General, Governor and Statesman. Northerns were in use until the conversion to Diesel. Most were out of service by 1960.
Although locomotives of the 4-8-4 wheel arrangement were used in a number of countries, those developed outside the Americas included various design features which set them apart from North American practice. The United States, Canada and Mexico were the home of the American 4-8-4, and scaled down examples of the type were exported by two American builders for metre gauge lines in Brazil.
For more information use Google. Search 4-8-4 Northern. Also on Wikipedia.org
Thanks Ken for all the information, on the questions I had. I know you and others have so much knowledge and information that we who are new to model railroading need and require to do a good job on our layouts.
Thanks again.
Louis
If you are talking about the Bachmann model of Santa Fe’s 3780 it was the last steam locomotive to operate on the AT&SF. It made it’s last appearance on Tuesday, August 27, 1957 as a helper unit.
There’s a bit on the Santa Fe 4-8-4’s here: http://www.wheelsmuseum.org/stagner.html
Bachmann’s other Northerns are merely repaints of the same shell, some with Vandy tenders. Since you specified “with 52′ tender” I’m guessing you are referring to the N scale version since the HO scale version doesn’t say how long the tender is. For what it’s worth, the newest versions are the best runners.