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Hi Dave,
I love the kitbash! Very nice detailing.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Great work Dave. The lay out tour was excellent! NICE!
Mike.
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dehusman I recently got my kitbashed 2-8-0 camelback in service. It is a model of a P&R class I1-e camelback after its rebuilding in 1900, my layout is set in 1903. The engine started out as a Roundhouse 2-8-0. The boiler is actually off an older MDC 2-8-0 and has a styrene Wooten firebox. The cab is the Round house cab modified with more appropriate windows. The stack, domes, air pump and headlight are bras castings from PIA and Cal Scale. Piping and handrails are phosphor bronze wire from Tichy. It has a Tsunami decoder in it. I made a littee video of its operation and construction: Kitbashed Camelback 2-8-0 - YouTube
I recently got my kitbashed 2-8-0 camelback in service. It is a model of a P&R class I1-e camelback after its rebuilding in 1900, my layout is set in 1903. The engine started out as a Roundhouse 2-8-0. The boiler is actually off an older MDC 2-8-0 and has a styrene Wooten firebox. The cab is the Round house cab modified with more appropriate windows. The stack, domes, air pump and headlight are bras castings from PIA and Cal Scale. Piping and handrails are phosphor bronze wire from Tichy. It has a Tsunami decoder in it.
I made a littee video of its operation and construction:
Kitbashed Camelback 2-8-0 - YouTube
Dave, very nice work on that loco. Interestingly, I was just looking at your website a few days ago. Very interesting layout, great work there as well.
Sheldon
Nice work on your locomotive, Dave, and your layout looks to be rather nicely-done, too.
Wayne
Dave,
Nice job!!! The loco looks great. One of my favorite odd beasts. I really liked the consist and the other rolling stock on the layout as well.
Guy
see stuff at: the Willoughby Line Site
John-NYBW I've always been curious what the fireman's position was on a camelback and how he communicated with the engineer.
I've always been curious what the fireman's position was on a camelback and how he communicated with the engineer.
The camelback design was obviously developed without employee/user input. The fireman was stationed at the rear of the loco standing beneath that not-very-protective canopy. Worse, he's standing on the front portion of the tender and trying to shovel coal into the engine firebox... the tender and engine usually swaying in different directions. Like trying to feed an uncooperative infant.
Other than climbing up to the engineer, they couldn't communicate as far as I know. I often wonder if any used "voice tubes" a'la the steam ship method to connect the bridge to the engine room.
The engineer didn't have a good position either. The space between the boiler and the cab wall was cramped. Some note that the alternate term for camelback - "mother hubbard" referred to "mother hubbard's cupboard" in describing the engineer's space.
Another issue is that the engineer is also is sitting right above the whirling siderods, so if one were to break, sections of the rod could come up through the cab floor. This would be rare, and more likely to occur on a high speed passenger loco as opposed to a slower freight engine.
Jim
Excellent work.
I've wanted to add a camelback to my roster but don't have the skill to do what you've done so I keep browsing on ebay. I just got beat out of a nice one a few weeks ago.
Beautiful modeling - both the loco and the scenery!
I've got a couple locos yearning for a Wooten firebox, and your video just might get me off the couch!
Thanks for sharing!
Great job on the loco Dave! Nice background too, by the way...
Simon
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