A few years back, I found a Tyco Gerenal kit in mint condition at a good price, so I bought it. I planned to make a whole progress topic, but I got excited and accidentally finished it.
I finished this a couple years ago, and just realized I hadn't even posted it! So here it is (finally).
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Darth Santa FeI got excited and accidentally finished it.
Accidentally eh?!?
Nice job on the wood pile!
4-4-0 Generals don't do well in my collection. They get sacrificed to provide fodder for other projects. This, plus the tender, is about all that is left of an N scale 4-4-0 that I'm turning into an HOn30 tow motor. Some of you have seen this before:
Even the side rods had to go
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Nice job. Do you have any Civil War era cars to go behind it?
David Starr www.newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com
hon30critterNice job on the wood pile!
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Should you wish to use this model for something distinctly after the Civil War, the book "Northern Pacific Pioneer Steam Era" has several photos of a group of steam engines remarkably similar. They were built starting 1879. There's even a shot of one with a cross-compound air pump on its right side, along with a very interesting special appliance. One, anyway, made it to 1905.
Cary made a conversion boiler that was a bit bigger/heavier. It's on the last page of this document:
http://modelrailroader.net/pdf/cary_body.pdf
One was sold on ebay in March for not a lot of money.
Ed
Since you have a really good tender drive, did you fill the boiler and cab roof with weight enough to get some tractive effort out of her?
You might also consider applying some brass paint to the crosshead pump.
Very nice cosmetic job - much nicer than the 1:1 scale replica I saw in Chattanooga.
Chuck (Modleing Central Japan in September, 1964)
It looks great to me. The brass dome is very impressive. I am glad to hear it runs good as well.
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-Kevin
Living the dream.
Thanks!
tomikawaTT, I didn't add any weight, but I may consider it eventually. It does have a traction tire, and already runs very well as is.
4-4-0s are before my period of interest, but there were a bazillion of them over the roughly half-century when they were as common as dirt. This is a partuiicularly beautiful one.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
Here's the video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VRLgIM1L6g
Darth,
Always a pleasure to see your videos. That IS a nice running loco. It's difficult to force myself to really believe that, when the prototype was built, it was pretty much the most technically advance machine in the world. And quite the behemoth. At least, on land.
Wood pile looks excellent, too.
Yes, very good!