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Frisco 4-8-2 #1501
Hey all! Do you remember the Frisco 4-8-2 Mountain I built a while back? Well, it’s back. I’ve rebuilt it from the wheelbase up. I was never satisfied with my original model, due to my personal family history with it and getting to help with the restoration of it over the summer. I’ve spent the past 4 months completely rebuilding the locomotive, and now I’m able to share photos with it. Decals and white wall wheels were done by the amazing OKBrickWorks
“Steam locomotive 1501 was once part of a proud stable of thirty such engines on the Frisco Railway system. Built in 1923, the handsome modern machine was the pride of the fleet until dieselization of the system in the late 1940s. The 1501 was part of an initial order for fifteen locomotives placed with the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Eddystone, Pennsylvania in 1923. The order was the Frisco's response to delays in passenger service due to the tortuous Ozark territory west of St. Louis. The oil-buring locomotives were a type nicknamed "Mountain", which has a wheel arrangement of four lead or pilot wheels, eight driving wheels, and two trailing wheels under the cab (4-8-2).”
Frisco 4-8-2 #1501
Hey all! Do you remember the Frisco 4-8-2 Mountain I built a while back? Well, it’s back. I’ve rebuilt it from the wheelbase up. I was never satisfied with my original model, due to my personal family history with it and getting to help with the restoration of it over the summer. I’ve spent the past 4 months completely rebuilding the locomotive, and now I’m able to share photos with it. Decals and white wall wheels were done by the amazing OKBrickWorks
“Steam locomotive 1501 was once part of a proud stable of thirty such engines on the Frisco Railway system. Built in 1923, the handsome modern machine was the pride of the fleet until dieselization of the system in the late 1940s. The 1501 was part of an initial order for fifteen locomotives placed with the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Eddystone, Pennsylvania in 1923. The order was the Frisco's response to delays in passenger service due to the tortuous Ozark territory west of St. Louis. The oil-buring locomotives were a type nicknamed "Mountain", which has a wheel arrangement of four lead or pilot wheels, eight driving wheels, and two trailing wheels under the cab (4-8-2).”