HO Scale AHM/Rivarossi 5061 NKP Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 Berkshire Steam #779

Description: Beautiful train HO scale front wheel carriage is damaged but doesn’t affect drive-ability also the box is damaged. Could use as good service and cleaning. Runs great as the video shows. Sold as used, I’m no expert in grading of trains. Please look at photos for best description. I will be adding a video, please note that my set up is for testing purposes only on an extremely old transformer set up. I’m in no means a professional. Sold as is no warranty, refunds or returns Sold as is is used look a photos for further reference. Class S, S-1, S-2, S-3 (Locobase 52) Data from "Nickel Plate Installs 15 2-8-4, Fast Freight Locomotives", Railway Mechanical Engineer, Volume 108, No 11 (November 1934), pp. 387-392; and NKP 5 - 1950 Locomotive Diagrams supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange. See also Steamtown's Special History Study "American Steam Locomotives: Nickel Plate Road (New York, Chicago, And St Louis) No. 759", archived at [link] . (Thanks to Jackie Lien for the 5 April 2017 email pointing the S-2's weight differences; to Chris Hohl for the valve gear ID and his 22 September 2017 email reporting unlikely boiler pressure values for 177 entries. A Locobase macro caused the error . Also thanks to Barry Adico for his 30 September 2021 email noting the rear truck's bearings.) Alco delivered the first 15 S (700-714), works numbers 68646-68653 in September 1934, 68654-68658 in October, and 68659-68660 in November. Eight years later, Lima began producing three more sub-classes, which differed from the S class in little more than weight.: S-1 (715-739), works numbers 7860-7867 in June 1942, 7868-7874 in July, 8003-8007 in March 1943, 8008-8009 in April, and 8010-8012 in May. Weights were 252,100 lb (113,897 kg) on the drivers, 428,500 lb (194,365 kg) total for the engine. The boiler held four fewer 2 1/4" tubes, which reduced the EHS to 4,772 sq ft (433.49 sq m). Tender capacity remained the same and its loaded weight varied only slightly. S-2 (740-769), works numbers 8414-8428 in January 1944, 8663- 8670 in August, and 8671-8677 in September. Roller bearings on the driving axles and leading truck; friction bearings on the trailing truck axles. Weight rose to 254,300 lb (115,349 kg) on the drivers, 440,800 lb (199,944 kg) for the engine, and 361,700 lb (164,065 kg) for the loaded tender. S-3 (770-779), works numbers 9371-9373 in March 1949, 9374-9376 in April, and 9377-9380 in May. Weight on drivers 266,000 lb (120,656 kg), engine weight 444,300 (201,531 kg), loaded tender weight 364,520 lb (165,344 kg). Firebox had two thermic syphons offering a total of 98 (RME said 100) sq ft (9.3 sq m) of heating surface and two arch tubes with an additional 19 sq ft (1.75 sq m). Piston valves measured 14" (356 mm) in diameter, had 8" (203 mm) of travel, a lead of 3/16" (5.1 mm), and lap of 1 11/16"(42.9 mm). The NPS study notes that William Black designed several of the best-known and most highly regarded freight engines of the Superpower era. After designing the Erie's 2-8-4s, he moved to the Chesapeake & Ohio and drafted the lines for the C&O's T1 2-10-4s (Locobase 95), which would be duplicated by the Pennsylvania as their J1s. He headed the Van Swearingen Roads' Advisory Mechanical Committee, which oversaw design for the Chessie, its subsidiary the Hocking Valley, the Nickel Plate, and the Pere Marquette. The Nickel Plate's Berkshire design emerged from the AMC in 1934 as a "mathematically scaled-down version of the C&O's 2-10-4." The NPS account quotes Gene Huddleston's verdict that the S class was "the greatest 2-8-4 ever to take the rails" and the Age of Steam Roundhouse account succinctly states: "Designed to run comfortably at 70 mph [113 kph] across the entire railroad, the 'Berks' were finely-tuned machines that performed exactly as intended. " All of the S class had Worthington Type 5 SA feed water heaters, Elesco Type E superheaters, Standard Type MB stokers, and Precision Type F-3 reverse gear. See Railfan & Railroad, March 1994, for a long article by Rich Melvin in which he recounts excursion runs with 765 that demonstrate just how powerful this class was. Melvin underscores the slogan coined by Lima's Will Woodard to explain the SuperPower concept: "Horsepower at Speed." The article contains an excellent analysis of the strengths of a steam horsepower curve (there's more the faster you go) and diesel horsepower (there's plenty at the low end, but the system reaches its upper limit at a speed well below an equivalent steam engine

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Location: Littleton, Colorado

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