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Announcing the USRA 0-6-0 Switcher Project
ROADNAMES PLANNED
Baltimore & Ohio, CB&Q, C&NW, CNJ, Grand Trunk, Maine Central,
Nickel Plate, NYC (Chicago Junction), Pennsylvania, Texas & Pacific, Union Pacific, and factory painted models with no lettering.
Other roads acquiring the USRA 0-6-0 – ACL, CGW, CStPM&O, CRI&P, M&O(GM&O), NKP, OSL, Pennsylvania, PCC&SrL, Pennsylvania LW, P&WV, Seaboard Airline, Washington Terminal, StL SF,TRRA
Beginning in 1916, railroads began ordering a total of 255 0-6-0 switchers built to the United States Railroad Administration design standards. After delivery, many railroads either modified the USRA design tender to an extended vision tender or supplied a replacement tender. Other than placement of the headlight, the locomotive remained the same throughout most of their useful lives.
River Raisin Models is requesting reservations for the USRA 0-6-0 steam switcher in DC scale and DC hi-rail brass. Our builder, Boo Rim Precision, will build these models to our usual high standards. He has worked with us to develop a project that will have multiple road names with the different appliances and tenders that are appropriate to the different roads. There will be at least two locomotive numbers available for each railroad version. Each version planned will be built if sufficient reservations for that road name are received. Modelers will have the choice of standard USRA tender or an extended vision tender. A few versions will have road specific tenders.
River Raisin will be importing these models for delivery in 2011. These models will include the features and quality that you have grown to expect from River Raisin Models. The models will come DCC ready with a 9 pin wiring harness already installed.
Special Pre-production pricing of $1299 (painted & lettered), $1199 (unpainted) is available until August 1, 2010. Pre-production pricing after August 1 increases $100 per model. Post-production pricing is $1499 (painted & lettered).
Reserve your locomotive with a non-refundable deposit of $300 per locomotive. For additional information please write, or call us at: (248) 366-9621, or email at info@riverraisinmodels.com.
Prototype Photos
We are still researching these locomotives and can use specific data and details for the different roads, especially the tenders. If you have tender drawings to share we can make these models as accurate as possible. Maine Central is not shown in a photo as we are still in search of good photos of MEC #175 & #176.
Here are some photos of the various prototypes.
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Baltimore & Ohio wth standard tender |
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Chicago, Burlinton & Quincy with extended vision tender |
Chicago, Burlinton & Quincy with standard USRA tender |
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Central New Jersey with extended vision tender |
Central New Jersey with standard USRA tender |
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Chicago & Northwestern with C&NW tender |
Chicago & Northwestern with standard USRA tender |
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Grand Trunk with standard USRA tender |
Grand Truck with extended vision tender |
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Maine Central with extended vision tender |
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NYC (Chicago Junction) with standard USRA tender |
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Nickel Plate Road with extended vision tender |
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Pennsylvania with standard USRA tender |
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Texas & Pacific with extended vision tender |
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Announcing the
Southern Pacific MT-4 & MT-5 Mountains Project
The pilot models for #4379 and #4376 are here. Here are a few photos of each.
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The latest Southern Pacific project from River Raisin Models is the Southern Pacific MT-4 and MT-5 4-8-2s (aka Mountains). Thirty one units were built between 1926 and 1930 -- twenty-one MT-4s between 1926 and 1929, and ten MT-5s between 1929 and1930. All with built by Southern Pacific in their Sacramento Shops. The Mountains were workhorses of both fast passenger and freight duties.
The 4-8-2 models that we are planning to produce (subject to sufficient reservations) are shown in the pictures below -- click on any one for a larger photo.
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MT-4 #4352 w/ 160-C-1 Tender Boiler Tube Pilot, Polished Cylinder Covers, Blue-Green Boiler Paint scheme, Polished Cylinder Heads & White Striped Drivers & Wheels, Red Cab Roof, Early Lettering Style (Southern Pacific Lines) |
MT-4 #4352 w/ 160-C-1 Tender Pressed Steel Pilot, Skyline Boiler Casing, Multiple Bearing Crosshead Guides, Daylight Paint Scheme |
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MT-4 #4353 w/ 160-C-2 Tender Boiler Tube Pilot, Skyline Boiler, Multiple Bearing Crosshead Guides, Universal Disc Main Driver, Daylight Paint Scheme |
MT-4 #4357 w/160-C-4 Tender Skyline boiler casing, Pressed Steel Pilot, Spoked Drivers, Multiple Bearing Crossheads and Guides. Black & Graphite Paint Scheme |
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MT-5 #4369 w/120-C-5 Pressed steel pilot, Clamshell Stack, Black & Graphite Paint Scheme, All Spoked Drivers |
MT-5 #4369 w/ 120-C-5 Tender Skyline Boiler Casing, Pressed steel pilot, Universal Disc Main Driver, Black & Graphite Paint Scheme |
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SP MT-4 4-8-2 - PAINTED
AND LETTERED
All models are also available painted
with no lettering (pricing is the same as painted and lettered)
PRE-PRODUCTION PRICE : $2,199.00 each
POST-PRODUCTION PRICE: $2,299.00 each
ALL UNPAINTED MODELS $100 LESS
Daylight Paint Scheme & Blue/Green Scheme is $75
additional
____ MT-4 #4352 w/ 160-C-1 Tender As-built (blue-green boiler paint scheme)
____ MT-4 #4352 w/ 160-C-1 Tender -Skyline boiler,
Multiple Bearing Crosshead Guides
(Daylight paint scheme)
____ MK-4 #4353 w/ 160-C-2 Tender - Skyline boiler,
Universal Disc Main Driver
(Daylight paint scheme)
____ MK-4 #4357 w/ 160-C-4 Tender - Skyline boiler,
Multiple Bearing Crosshead Guides
(black
and graphite paint scheme)
SP MT-5 4-8-2 - PAINTED
AND LETTERED
All models are also available painted
with no lettering (pricing is the same as painted and lettered)
PRE-PRODUCTION PRICE : $2,199.00 each
POST-PRODUCTION PRICE: $2,299.00 each
ALL UNPAINTED MODELS $100 LESS
All MT-5 Models are painted in Black & Graphite
Paint Scheme
____ MT-5 #4369 w/
120-C-5 Tender (1946 Era, clam shell stack, spoked drivers)
____ MT-5 #4369
w/ 120-C-5 Tender (1948 Era, skyline boiler, pressed steel pilot, Universal disc
main driver)
____ MT-5 #4376
w/ 120-C-8 Tender (1948 Era, skyline boiler, pressed steel pilot, Universal disc
main driver)
EXTRA TENDERS
River Raisin will produce extra
tenders if pre-ordered. $50.00 deposit
per tender required.
DEPOSITS ARE DUE NOW! If there are not sufficient reservations for all versions, some versions may not be built.
Reserve your locomotives with anon-refundable deposit of $300 per locomotive.
Once the project is committed to the builder, we will invoice you for an additional $300. River Raisin can tailor a payment plan to meet anyone’s needs. For additional information please write, email or call us at: (248) 366-9621, raisintwo@comcast.net.
More Information on the Southern Pacific MT-4 and MT-5 locomotives
Readers seeking additional information on the Southern Pacific Mountains may wish to consult one of the on-line SP related websites such as:
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Richard Percy's Espee Modelers site
and/or one the books with extensive treatment of these fine locomotives:
- Ainswoth, Jeff. Southern Pacific Steam, Mountains 4-8-2 Pictorial, Volumes 8 & 28
- Church, Robert J., The 4300 4-8-2 -Southern Pacific's Mt-Class Locomotives (Revised Edition)
- Diebert, Timothy S. & Strapac, Joseph A., Southern Pacific Company Steam Locomotive Compendium
- Dunscomb, Guy L., A Century of Southern Pacific Steam Locomotives 1862-1962
- Dunscomb, Guy L. with Dunscomb, Donald K. & Pecotich, Robert A, A Southern Pacific Steam Pictorial, Volume II
For all things Southern Pacific, don't forget to check out the Southern Pacific Historical & Technical Society.
The Southern Pacific Harriman Mikes and
Southern Pacific F-5 2-10-2s aka "Decks" are here!
The SP Harriman MK-5 & MK-6 2-8-2s (Mikes) and F-5 2-10-2s (aka "Decks") project has been delivered. Advance orders have been shipped. A limited number of these models are still available. Please see the In Stock page or contact us to check availability and place an order before they are all gone.
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River Raisin Models has 
assembled an array of Southern Pacific steam locomotives that will serve as a basis for your SP steam roster. Our builder is Boo Rim Precision. The project included all nine different versions with many different appliances and tenders to choose from. This is the most diverse project we have embarked on yet. River Raisin imported these models for
delivery in 2008. These models include the features and qualities that you have grown to expect from River Raisin Models. We are working with our builder to include a 9 pin DCC wiring harnes already installed. Read more
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MK-5 #3249 w/ 120-C-1 Tender (1952 photo) |
MK-5 #3272 w/ Whaleback Tender (1950 photo) |
MK-5 #3271 w/ 120-C-2 Tender (1946 photo) |
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Southern Pacific MK-6 2-8-2 |
Southern Pacific MK-6 2-8-2 |
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MK-6 #3265 w/ Whaleback Tender (1948 photo) |
MK-6 #3251 w/ 120-C-2 Tender (1953 photo) |
MK-6 #3269 w/ 120-C-3 Tender (1952 photo) |
Historic note: SP called the 2-10-2's "Decks". because they were rivals with the Santa Fe and they refused to call them Santa Fe's...
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F-5 #3727 w/ 120-C-2 Tender (1953 photo) |
F-5 #3734 w/ 120-C-3 (1938 photo) |
F-5 #3734 w/ 160-C-2 Tender (1954 photo) |
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Announcing Milwaukee Road's Rib Sided Cabooses
in two versions and both in S scale and hi-rail brass
No caboose on any railroad was more 
identifiable with the railroad that built them than the Milwaukee Road’s
“rib-siders”. The road’s welded,
rib-sided construction built by the craftsmen of the Milwaukee Shops, proved to
be lighter yet stronger than the more typical construction methods. Between
1939 and 1951, Milwaukee built 315 bay-window, rib-sided cabooses. Seven different varieties of the “rib-siders” were built over the years with modifications and improvements
added to the design. River Raisin has built two of the versions that operated during the entire time period
these cabooses ran. The cabooses lasted longer than the railroad did.
River Raisin has these models available in either the 1939 original or 1949 versions and also with scale or hi-rail wheels and couplers.
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