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Hi irate squirrel [#welcome] I would say you have already taken the first step in deciding that is what you want to build. I would write to the Southern Pacific RR and see if they can give you a General Arangement Drawing for it they may charge a small nominal fee for copying the drawing.. Warning General Arrangement Drawings are not always drawn to scale they are the Engineering worlds equivelent to an artists impresion. If it is draw to scale this will be on the drawing usualy but not always down in the bottom R/H corner Next lots of photographs of the diferent details on the locomotive are invaluable for working out what you have to make and what you can buy I would also suggest geting the Frame drawing this one will be to scale. It is a some what diferent locomotive due to the single drive wheel and care will have to be taken to balance the weight so the bogies are carrying the same amount of weight each but most of the weight is on the single drive wheel you will be relying wholly and souly on that for drive and tractive effort it is unlikly to pull more than three or four cars which at a guess is about what I would expect the prototype to have managed As this is a real locomotive I would not make any decisions about what to use for what without studieing the drawings and loads of photos. For the simple reason there will always be some[censored] who will come and say that bit isn't right or some other pettie minded critisisam regards John
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