Bullet Nosed Betty (Big & Small, edition 2)

Hello again DU'ers,

This is the second installment in a series of pics on the theme of 'big & small', whereby I post a pic of a scale model of a particular subject alongside the actual full-size object itself.

So with that in mind, here are a couple pics of Canadian National Railways U1f class steam locomotive #6069 on display at Centennial Waterfront Park in Sarnia, Ontario.

These engines were built by Montreal Locomotive Works in 1944 & were known informally as "Bullet Nose Bettys" due to their distinctive cone-shaped smokebox covers.

Posing with the full-sized Bullet Nose Betty is my 'O' Scale model of CN Bullet-Nose-Betty #6079.

In the first pic it was a challenge to get the entire full sized locomotive in view with all the trees in the park and the fixed focal length lens I was using. I ended up under a pine tree which cast a shade on my model necessitating the use of a flash:



Front View:



3/4 view:



In this last pic a local CN freight arrived to switch the Cargill plant on the waterfront. My model is in the foreground at the right side of the photo:



The photos are from a recent trip my wife & I took throughout Southwestern Ontario.

Hope you enjoy! Cheers, Pete

(On an unrelated note, the youtube video of our spring 2022 Trans-Canada train Odyssey on VIA's Canadian reached 100,000 views):