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Post by superbirdvh on Dec 31, 2012 21:12:42 GMT -5
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Post by URR566 on Jan 1, 2013 7:25:02 GMT -5
Love the Bessemer and EL power, great looking layout, even without scenery, can't wait to see more!
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Post by BleBob on Jan 1, 2013 19:18:20 GMT -5
Looks good Bob,
Please keep us posted on updates.
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Post by trainmanble on Jan 5, 2013 14:21:23 GMT -5
Hey Bob, thought you said it isn't much, looks real good to me
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Post by superbirdvh on Mar 26, 2013 21:19:35 GMT -5
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Post by URR566 on Mar 27, 2013 22:41:09 GMT -5
Great looking equipment. Keep up the good work!
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Post by nate on Mar 30, 2013 0:44:24 GMT -5
Bravo, Bob!! It is so good to see the younger generation of Bessemer fan taking interest -- and tangible action to model -- the steam and passenger heritage of the B&LE. In the scale model world, it is easiest (due to model availability) to capture the road's heritage in the era of Mr. Beaver's orange and black paint on Dr. Diesel's invention.
So, it is especially noteworthy when someone who could not have personally witnessed either steam or scheduled passenger operations on the Bessemer acknowledges that there indeed were locomotives that burned for fuel to boil water some of what was also carried as freight, and that some of the revenue generators sat upon seat cushions vs. resting on hopper pocket slope sheets.
I look forward to seeing more of your terrific model projects and creative photographic records, thereof.
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Post by nate on Mar 30, 2013 10:18:32 GMT -5
I'd venture to say that in your #17, Bob, you might just have the only 1/87th scale B&LE E5B 4-4-0 in all of Mercer County! Built by Alco-Pittsburg (no 'h') in 1905, the same year that the ERIE replaced the west truss of their two-span bridge over the Shenango River, next to the Bessemer's Shenango Yard. That engine lasted for 31 years. It was scrapped in 1936, in the midst of The Great Depression. Consider this: the classic 17-stall Greenville Roundhouse in the shops complex in Hempfield Township was still a half-decade into the future, when she arrived on the property!
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Post by URR566 on Mar 30, 2013 16:54:19 GMT -5
Nate, the 17 and sister 4-4-0 number 16 were sold to the Union Railroad in May 1935, and were renumbered as URR 400/401. A photograph of the 401 (Bessemer 17) went through the dreaded evilbay a few weeks ago.
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Post by ceastlick on Apr 14, 2013 17:00:17 GMT -5
WOW! everything looks great! Where did you get the decals for the passenger cars??
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Post by superbirdvh on Jun 3, 2015 20:19:19 GMT -5
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Post by bessemerbob on Jun 3, 2015 22:57:38 GMT -5
Look'n good Bob
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Post by URR566 on Jun 4, 2015 17:42:27 GMT -5
Oh yea I like that. You have me red white and blue with envy. Thanks for sharing!
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Post by tunnelmotors on Jun 4, 2015 18:53:21 GMT -5
Wow that's amazing, nice work!
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Post by superbirdvh on Jun 7, 2015 9:18:56 GMT -5
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