ondhand locomotive dealers that resold units and re-engined ones. For devotees of the GE 70 tonner, this book is a must. For modelers, it contains an almost endless amount of ideas on how to paint, detail, and cus- tomize a locomotive.–DAVID LUSTIG
Memories of
the Cab For- wards: A Per- sonal View, by Richard E. Lohse,
lished by The Southern Pacif-
ic Historical and Technical Society, 1523 Howard Access Road, Suite A, Upland CA, 91786-2582 (www.sphts. org). Hardcover, 300 8¹₂ ×11 pages; $75.00.
These days, my hobby interests skew to smaller steam locomotives, but when
pub-
I started in the hobby, too many years ago now to admit, it was the steam su- perpower that lit my fires. My local hobby shop had a demonstration lay- out–an HO 5′×10′ with a wild west- inspired boom town in the middle that featured industries served by an im- possible number of switchback spurs, all circled by an oval–and there was nothing more inspiring to an impres- sionable young modeler than seeing an articulated steam locomotive as long as my forearm patrolling the perimeter behind the layout’s protective Plexi- glas. Whether it was Union Pacific Big Boys and Challengers, Norfolk & West- ern Mallets, or Chesapeake & Ohio Al- leghenys, they all brought the drama of railroading to life in 1:87. I even owned a few examples of these engines in my time. For me, these were highly ques- tionable purchases since they were forced to bend around trainset-tight
curves while pulling a ten-car way- freight. Today, I would call the sight ridiculous, but at the time they looked positively wonderful.
Of all the big steam locomotives proudly displayed in the hobby shop’s glass cases, it was the Southern Pacific’s cab-forwards that I found most visually arresting. Unlike every other articulat- ed, this one was built backwards. As the name implied, the cab was at the front, with the stack just ahead of the tender. The cab-forward’s unusual configu- ration was born of necessity. Here is the short version of those events. The SP took delivery of a pair of 2-8-8-2 Mallet type locomotives. These went into service in 1909 and were based out of Roseville, California, where they did a great job of hauling freight through the mountains en route to Reno, Ne- vada, and points east. They also did a great job of asphyxiating their crews in
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