my ESPEE MODELERS ARCHIVE

California's Railroad to the U.S. 1861 - 1996

11 units rebuilt

11 of the 12 MC-4's were converted to simple expansion and reclassed AC-2 between 1927-1938.

4028 was fitted with a tender booster to try to get more tractive effort, but not successful and so was quickly removed.

References:

• A Century of SP Steam Locomotives - Guy L. Dunscomb
• SP Co. Steam Locomotive Compendium - Diebert & Strapac
• Cab-Forward - Robert J. Church
• Cab-In-Front (The Half Century Story of An Unconventional Locomotive) - John.B.Hungerford © 1959
  • reprinted by PFM 1974

Modeling choices at the moment are:

• For N Scale:
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• For HO Scale:
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• For S Scale:
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• For O Scale:
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