Does anyone know where I could get some measurement drawings or blueprints of the Delaware and Hudson Challengers? Specifically, their tenders?
I'm trying to design a model of DH 1517's tender as she exists today, as CP water tender #35508. Most of it could probably be done from photos, but there is a curvature at the top, and that would be a lot easier if I had blueprints or drawings.
I'm willing to pay money for this too.
Thanks in advance!
My usual resources came up empty on this one. Acting on a hunch I checked out the 1961 Model Railroader drawings of the D&H 4-8-4 of about the same vintage and its tender was quite different.
The photos I found of the D&H 4-6-6-4 showed a tender which, to my eyes, looked very much like the old Mantua tender that they attached to their cast metal 4-6-2 and 2-8-2 starting in the early 1950s and used for decades after that. Depending on the age of the kit, those tenders were cast metal or plastic. The D&H tender MIGHT have been welded because the sides look smooth, but it would be an easy matter to remove the rivets from the Mantua model.
It would be at least a reasonable approximation that could be used until better information becomes available. Best of all, you see those tenders at almost give-away prices at swap meets.
Dave Nelson
Try this group on Yahoo or the Bridge Line Histirical society
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http://dhbridgeline.org/
Ron High