H.P.Products Challenger on ebay

[TheKnighTT]

Am I allowed to make y'all aware that someone is selling one of the rare H.P.Products Challengers on ebay?

I am in no way related to or affiliated with the seller. And I am not gonna bid on this one. Luckily for the purse, there were no Challengers in the Pacific Northwest.

[TiTan downunder]

Sorry if this temps your to blow your bank balance, but there were.
The Northern Pacific Z-6 #5100-5120 built 1936/37. The Z-7's # 5121-5126 all built in 1941 and the Z-8's # 5130-5149 built in '43/44.
All were scrapped at either Tacoma or Brainard in the late '50's with the last ones going in 1959 along with most of the big 4-8-4 Northerns.

Ian

[TheKnighTT]

And the Spokane, Portland & Seattle also got 2 oil-burning Z-8.
Thank you, Ian. I did not know that. I think I'll pass and give the bank account a rest. After a covid break my other hobbies claim financial attention.

[ConducTTor]

Link?

[TiTan downunder]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/295068674212?h ... Sw6Otiu5sA

[MacG]

@TheKnighTT: At steamlocomotive.com you get a good overview of the various North American steam locomotives. There, when you find the next rare model, you can look at which railroad company the prototype ran by.

@all: Good luck! I'm out on this old thing.

[TheKnighTT]

@MacG: That´s an enormous wealth of information, thank you. I am back in the armchair, no modelling. I just have to wait to get an H.P. Products 2-10-4 Selkirk.

I looked up the H.P.Products Challenger in the catalogue, while in my armchair. Ready-to-run for $85 in 1959, the way inflation went that would be $850 today.

[TiTan downunder]

Turned my NP Historical Society calendar page for the new month and this photo greeted me.

Ian