This started out as the original remote control battery powered engine, I shortened the smoke box by 1 set of rivets and shortened the boiler up to the last boiler ban. moved the steam generator to the center. Again as before I used cotter pins with pop rivets bases to make railing stanchions. Use to drive by an old Prairie up in Leesburg, Fl. when I covered that area, took pictures and did research on the engine. Unusual to see electrical wires run through the boiler grab rails but that was the way it was built, Shortened the tender by about an inch, trying to keep the engine /tender as short as possible. mounted the boiler on a LGB Mogul motor block and added trailing truck from a LGB 2080. Rope is copper wire strands twisted. If you notice the air tank on the back of the tender it is a cigar tube that my dad had. The fireman is screwed to the draw bar between the engine and tender and when the train is moving, he moves all around.
That's a really nice looking bash. Right now I'm fixing up an old Annie right now that hadn't been serviced since it left the factory. What did you use for the railing in the stanchions? Also, what did you use for the bell and whistle cables? Thanks.
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Did you read the text? all explained there, if you need individual pictures I will supply, Bill
My bad on the copper wire for the bell and whistle cable, I must have read your post too fast. In regards to the boiler grab irons, do you mean that you used electrical wiring through the cotter pins to simulate the boiler grabs? I asking what exactly did you run through the cotter pin stanchions on the boiler.
I started this model after a town in Brazil was trying to get a train run set up to go to a larger city near by. The old track was there and needed repair and the old station refurbished. The train is a Baldwin 4-6-2 steam wood fired built in 1925.
I did the build based on photos using a Bachman Big Hauler lower and upper the upper was modified to a more correct copy of the train that was being modeled
Texmac 1 your picture didn't post
yep not sure how it works on photos
Still no picture, need to have a URL and post it with the mountain icon
274: Bachmann boiler. Barry's Big Trains chassis
25: 10th anniversary chassis. Lehman Porter saddle tank for firebox. Flickering LED's. Short tender from Lionel battery op toy train.
5: inspired by Argent Lumber Co. cut down Bachmann boiler, scratchbuilt tender. Full cab interior.
LGB mogul chassis.
That's a great model !! Baldwin, as I'm sure you already know, had a great history in the export business. Many of their products survived in Central and South America, long after the U.S. Had dieselized. And cane fields in Cuba, as well ! The export engines have the Classic Baldwin look with a twist... and that's why they're so fascinating!!
Nice model!!
Paul
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