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to negotiate minimum radius curves on small layouts. It had a die-cast boiler and cab, lacked skirts and came as a one-motor kit priced at $49.50, $59.50 with two. Bowser continued to produce it


after Penn Line closed, a much


longer run than the prototype. Like the S-1, it was too long and exotic for either to have been attempted in tinplate. For the last of our streamlined mod-


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els, we will look back to our cherished tinplate heritage: the sleek, 1934 stain- less steel, three-car CB&Q Pioneer Zephyr, a revolutionary diesel-powered passenger train quickly cloned as the BM-MEC Flying Yankee. It was a collab- oration between Budd with General Mo- tor’s Electro-Motive Corporation’s Win- ton 600-h.p. diesel. In 1973, Nickel Plate Products offered a plated brass model in HO of the Burlington Zephyr which made a historic speed run in 1934 to Chicago’s “Century of Progress Exhibi- tion.” The power unit included a bag- gage-mail compartment, while the New England version had passenger seating there. Jay Doblin’s book, One Hundred Great Product Designs, 1970, included it with other American classics. Lionel and American Flyer made toys of them. Chicago-based Flyer opted for the CB&Q version, and Lionel, the BM- MEC Flying Yankee. Fortunately, scale modelers were able to relive them decades later in accurate brass to either run or proudly display, a wonderful op- portunity for an adult to own a missed tinplate pleasure. All prototypes here were exciting in their eras. It just took time to make it possible for adults to properly enjoy them.


GRAND TRUNK HERITAGE By Philip R. Hastings


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long for most PRR turntables and curves, and was assigned a flat route between Chicago and Crestline, Ohio. It left service in 1944 and was scrapped in 1949. It was typical Raymond Loewy, having followed up on similar ideas ex- pressed in his K-4 Pacific cowling. In 1965 Gem Models imported Olympia Models’ unpainted brass HO S-1, which was priced at $199.50. A 1966 ad showed it painted “deep green” and selling for $225.00. With a long distance streamline tender, it was an impressive 20 inches in length. The 1942 PRR T-1 4-4+4-4 Duplex with long distance streamline tender was intended for service between Chica- go and Harrisburg. It had impressive Loewy styling, with sharp prow and rakish swoop from the headlight back to the running board. They were futuristic


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in appearance but had inadequate boil- er and grate areas. They were slippery. Skirting on the first two locomotives made maintenance difficult and was eventually removed. (Later locomotives lacked the skirts.) Rigid wheelbases were incompatible with sharp curves. Poppet valves caused trouble, and the later ones had reliable Walshaerts valve gear. The prow became blunter on later copies, undercutting Loewy’s sleek look. The first two had three 1949-style, round “Buick fender” portholes in the skirting


hiding the cylinders. There


were 51 T-1’s, with most stored by 1949 and scrapped by 1958, an expensive failure. It has been suggested, the T-1 may have pushed the PRR to dieselize. An early model was Penn Line’s 1950 version. The prototype had a rigid frame, but Penn Line’s was articulated


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