Yellowstone Locomotives 2-8-8-4 DM&IR

[Dakota Northern]

Dear ToadFrog&White Lightn

Give me a few days and I will post a photo of the Yellowstone Kitbash.

[Dakota Northern]

My humble apology to all the Garden Railroaders, on the Yellowstone article.  I saw the "Kitbashing" section and I punched it.  I hope you will excuse me for the mistake, I have only 20 years of education!  In Dakota you need to deduct a fourth of that for the reality check.  I will do my best to move the article to the HO Guage Section.

[wgnrr]

Hey DN,

 Sorry, you're in the wrong forum. We are the large scale outdoor railroading guys. Post HO stuff over in the Model Railroader forums.

-Brian 

 

I think you are in the wrong forum, unless I am blind...We are in the Model Railroader group...

Phil

[twhite]

DN--

Interesting idea for a kitbash.  However, if you look at the M-3/4 Yellowstones and the AC Cab-Forwards, they have more than a passing 'family' resemblance (both built by Baldwin, while the Big Boy is an ALCO product) and very similar boiler details (front hung pumps, feedwater heaters).  Even though the AC has a smaller boiler diameter, the sand domes and piping are very similar to the Yellowstone, as is the general cab configuration (the Big Boy has a more 'open' cab--square instead of slanted-- larger, more 'square' sand-domes and concealed piping).   Though the Missabe Yellowstone wasn't 'based' on the AC's (it was instead based on the Baldwin-built Western Pacific 2-8-8-2's), it would seem to me that there is more 'resemblance' between the Missabe and the AC than there would be with a Missabe and a Big Boy, without a LOT of kit-bashing of the Big Boy superstructure. 

However, I'd be very interested in seeing a photo of your kit-bash.  It sounds REALLY inventive!

Tom  

[markpierce]

Hey DN,

 Sorry, you're in the wrong forum. We are the large scale outdoor railroading guys. Post HO stuff over in the Model Railroader forums.

-Brian 

Brian,   to the Model Railroader general discussion forum even if you are lost.

Mark

[Texas Zepher]

I would love to see a picture of that.  While I do have a brass Yellowstone (M4), I've been thinking of building a few such as you described to extend the fleet.

[altterrain]

Hey DN,

 Sorry, you're in the wrong forum. We are the large scale outdoor railroading guys. Post HO stuff over in the Model Railroader forums.

-Brian 

[Anonymous]

Have a picture?

Toad

[Dakota Northern]

We lived near Duluth MN for ten years.  Every trip into Duluth was past several major railroad yards.  Both Superior and Duluth have ore docks and ship taconite.  The most famous of the ore trains from the Iron Range were pulled by theYellowstone Locomotives.  I have modeled scenes from several of the cities and towns where I have lived.  I have built an ore dock on my HO Layout.  I wanted some authenticity to the scene, I wanted a string of ore cars pulled by DM&IR locomotives.  I kitbasked an SD40 diesel and a Yellowstone.  Since I could not afford the Yellowstones on the market which are all brass, I kitbashed my own.  I took a Rivarossi Cab Forward (2-8-8-4) using the chassis and bottom half of the boiler and placed the upper half of a Monogram boiler on top. It is the  Monogram 1602 Kit. With a couple of alterations, I have what is close to a Yellowstone look.  I am also using the Monogram centepede tender for the Yellowstone.  What makes this model compatable with the Yellowstone, it has a flat boiler front.  It also has a DM&IR decal which I will use.  The DM&IR did not run any Big Boys which the Monogram kit suggests by giving the model a 4-8-8-4 wheel configuration.