nebnoswal Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 Bachman, through their collectors club are releasing a limited edition N gauge 4F, in S&DJR Prussian livery. How genuine is this? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffalo Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 The 4Fs (Armstrongs) were always black. No 58 may well have carried something like this livery, but it was a much smaller 'Scottie', a Johnson design with 4'6" drivers built in 1890. Nick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted March 28, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 28, 2015 Five 4f built for S&DJR in 1922 by Armstrong Whitworth. They were numbered 57-61 and were delivered in plain black. This is a well known photo. The SDJR is close together on the tender sides. Highbridge spaced it out. So pretty as it is the 4f did not appear in blue. However I am sure a couple of the 3f did.... Rob Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Hughes Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 Even if they were in blue, I don't think the glow in the dark lining would have been applied. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted April 12, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 12, 2015 Five 4f built for S&DJR in 1922 by Armstrong Whitworth. They were numbered 57-61 and were delivered in plain black. This is a well known photo. The SDJR is close together on the tender sides. Highbridge spaced it out. So pretty as it is the 4f did not appear in blue. However I am sure a couple of the 3f did.... Rob If you want to see the whole shot, you can see it at http://www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/26349957/in/album/512561. While lined blue locos seem to have had wheels lined, especially in older photos, the lining wasn't as thickly applied as on this model. Mind you I am not a fan of the blue 7F 88. I know that the official photo showed 80 in lined photographic grey, but that's no excuse. If they wanted to paint something blue, they could have chosen a Jinty or a 3F 0-6-0, which I think both had some examples in blue. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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