N&W Pacific = Pensy K4?

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You're right, Gary.  Adding weight and replacing the drive train were all 
that were needed to make it a fairly good performer.

Sam Putney

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> Westside- and not bad for Samhongsa at that time period.

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> Gary Rolih

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> Key produced a brass model of the N&W E3 (ex-PRR K3) in the early '80's, I

> believe.  It was an early Samhongsa model and not one of their better

> efforts.

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> Sam Putney

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>> These were former PRR K3 pacifics that N&W acquired around WWII if I

>> remember correctly; there have been articles in the Arrow on the 

>> prototype

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>> and how to model one.

>>

>> Jim Brewer

>> Glenwood MD

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>>> Hanging in the lounge at the Raleigh, NC passenger station is a

>>> photograph of an N&W pacific (probably #503?) at Durham, NC.  Looking at

>>> the photo, it struck me how much like a Pennsylvania K4 Pacific it 

>>> looks.

>

>>> With the exception of the distinctive tender, I could almost believe I

>>> was looking at a Pensy engine.  Did the N&W and Pensy share locomotive

>>> designs, or is it merely a case of accidental similarity?

>>>

>>> I took a photo of the photo, and can send it if it would help, though 

>>> the

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>>> quality isn't the greatest.

>>>

>>> Kenneth Rickman

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