Chuckpak full of WIN

[Dave V]

Just for a single, self-loathing moment, I caught myself wondering what a Hiawatha 4-4-2 would look like in Brunswick Green (DGLE) and T1-style keystones and pinstripes.

Then I smacked myself.

[Sokramiketes]

Wouldn't have been too outlandish in the fictionalized version of events that was in Model Railroader's 50th Anniversary edition (January 1984), when a couple of MR staffers supposedly found 4-4-2 No. 1 in an old enginehouse in the northern part of Wisconsin, rebuilt it, and operated it, sending it all over the country.  In reality, MR built HO, N, and O scale models of No. 1 and sent them around the U.S., L'il Puddy-style, and many popular layouts of that time were featured with the Hiawatha Atlantic hauling excursion trains.  PC cars wouldn't have been too much of a stretch in the early 1980s, if you buy into that alternate version of the Hiawatha timeline.

That MR issue is still one of my favorites.

DFF

Dave-

We restaged some of those shots on the Cumberland Valley.  FVM posted the photos on their Facebook page!

[eric220]

Just for a single, self-loathing moment, I caught myself wondering what a Hiawatha 4-4-2 would look like in Brunswick Green (DGLE) and T1-style keystones and pinstripes.

One word: hawt.

Then I smacked myself.

As well you should have.

[Bob Bufkin]

I'm just waiting for someone smart person to redo a 4-4-2 in Photoshop or other software into other RR paint schemes.