Articulated fun

[railfanespee4449]

I want to make a freelanced articulated out of two scout engines (maybe a
2-4-4-2?) Could i cut up the engines to get a 4-wheel chassis with cylinders but no cowcatcher, a shell trom the body ect? think- a cheap articulated. i would not actually articulate the chassis, because i have 0-36 curves. Add a whistle tender, and there you go

[railfanespee4449]

Come on, does anyone have ideas or 2 old scout engines?
P.S. First Star!!!!

[cnw1995]

I'm a sucker for any invitation to give my opinion without actually knowing what I'm talking about....[:D]This sounds interesting and fun- as I imagine it - the 'front' Scout would lose its cab and wheels under it - the 'rear' Scout would lose its pilot wheels, 'cowcatcher', light and smokestack - and you'd cobble together some kind of link so it would be sort of articulated. What's not to like? You could probably cut this up relatively quickly with a Dremel-type tool. I don't know what you'd use (styrene and CA?) to close the rear end of the first loco and the the various holes in the front of the second one. Why not experiment with just double-heading it to see how it would go through your curves and how much power it would draw...

[daan]

If you want to make an articulated loco, you should find a body wide enough to allow the old boxstyled scout motors to swing. I guess it's easier to model those african articulated ones, the ones where the watertank is on the front truck, the coal load on the back truck and the boiler and engeneers house in between. The trucks are articulated to the front and end of the boiler. You could even use the original scout body...
Do a search on google on garrat-locomotives or east african railways, and you'll find a few nice prototypes..

[cnw1995]

Those Garrat types are really neat looking. Wasn't one reviewed recently in CTT or OGR - I think it was by ETS?