USA. 0n3 by Bachmann, the 2-8-2 and its BIG brother ... in a Florida lumber yard

[Rex42]

HI,

I have bought one of those real good runners by BACHMANN, a 2-8-2 with 4axle tender. What makes it a fine runner is the motor-gear relationship. But there is more to this steam engine: the owner has the choice of three ( 3 ! ) different types to model - a caol burner, an oil burner or a wood burner, even with the different smokestacks and top tender parts... Even the headlight can be altered.
For a long time I favored the oil burner, but now I have changed it over to a wood burner because i found a photo of its BIG brother: it worked in 1913 in a Florida lumber yard. The photo is tiny, but the real one  looks like my BACHMANN model: baloon stack, cab doors open, rear light atop the cab, tender loaded with wood scraps.
Now I have to google and find whereabout in Florida this part of Brandon locates.... maybe at the border of the Everglades?
Rex42
 
 

[3rdrail]

I was not aware that Bachmann made anything in On3, let alone a 2-8-2. Also, don't recall any Florida narrow gauge or lumber company having 2-8-2's either. Got any photos?

Bachmann does make a number of locomotives in On30, which a a prototype gauge of 30 inches vs. 36 inches or 3 feet for On3. But again, no Mikados.