When someone posted this picture:Dewey the worlds smallest camelback
I realised that I had an LGB Toytrain drive would be perfect for a kitbash based on Dewey.I was able to use the time off I had from the flu to contemplate the project and think it thru. Go as far as adding the footplate, and this last weekend I built up the cab
Footplate added, screws at rear hold it in place
Footplate underside, it clips into the side of the LGB at the front
Cab front and back showing the strip plastic used to stiffen cab and pencil marks used to add cab paneling
Test fitting cab. I decided to only make the cab one window wide, it looked best given the boiler lenth
Cab built up, paneling added, its just strip styrene added over the cab panels, roof was cut down from the same failed project to boiler came from
Cab rear view, air tanks added on top of boiler.
Close up cab
Underside showing framing stiffeners
Engineer figure test in place
Overheated fireman test in place
Prepaint front complete
Prepaint rear complete
Next need to add the interior cab controls, then paint.
Have fun with your trains
Vic, what's next?????? good job.
Dave
The head is gray, hands don't work , back is weak, legs give out, eyes are gone, money go's and my wife still love's Me.
Rene Schweitzer
Classic Toy Trains/Garden Railways/Model Railroader
vsmith wrote: use them for bash fodder, or just sell them off. As it is I have too many engines, side effect of spare time coupled with an active imagination, and waiting 2 years for the stupid garage to get built.
How can someone have too many of something when it come's to train's.
dwbeckett wrote: vsmith wrote: use them for bash fodder, or just sell them off. As it is I have too many engines, side effect of spare time coupled with an active imagination, and waiting 2 years for the stupid garage to get built.How can someone have too many of something when it come's to train's.Dave
When its time to find a place to put it....
If its ugly enough, Vik will build it!
-Brian
altterrain wrote: If its ugly enough, Vik will build it!-Brian
I happen to think the mother hubbert is CUTE, I also am a fan of camel back's
you could of atleast extend the roof over the fireman so he doesn't get drenced in the rain, man vic yer tough on yer employees!!
user="S&G Rute of the Silver River" Say whats the tender from?
Say whats the tender from?
Its an LGB Toytrain item, still around if you look for them, but Marklin's announced that the Toytrain lineup is DOA under the new regime, so what remains is all there is. This is a really nice little tender for their Porters.
http://www.railfan.net/cgi-bin/trainthumb.cgi?railpix/sbrr
The link takes you where the pic came from, about 1/2 way down. Its narrow gauge, but how narrow isnt mentioned. It operated at the Lackawanna Iron and Steel shops servicing the blast furnace, most steel mills were 2' gauge for tight clearences so that would be my guess. I figure the engine would go in tender first, hence moving the cab as far forward as possible? Dunno, All I know is that it makes a nifety 3 footer.
While thats true for the bigger Wootan boilered standard gauge Camelbacks, where the grate area made the boiler so large there was no room for the cab left. The picture of Dewey shows what looks to be a standard size narrow gauge Porter type boiler, just like my LGB.
I suspect the shops at the foundry rebuilt Dewey as shown for one reason or another that has since been lost to history, probably something to do with its operations inside the foundry, maybe the cab was placed forward for better frontward visability inside a crowded foundry or shop. Dunno, but it does make a nifty model
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