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Here is a pic of my Bowsere PRR M1 under construction. Chassis is smooth rolling on a piece of glass, boiler detailing is coming alone nicely. I do plan to upgrade a few details, but not planning on a total superdetailing as the model gets handled quite often being transported from my home to the local club layout and back. Mine kit is an older one and has the extra boiler weight. So she should be an excellent puller. I have the headlight cored out for a golden white LED to be installed. She will be getting the optional long distance tender instead of the smaller tender. Cheers Mike
More pics. Got most of the stock detailing on the engine. I plan to upgrade the generator casting, add the claw foot marker lights on the boiler and pilot deck along we a few other major details that are missing on the bare model. The superdetail kit is no longer avaiable from Bowser in a single kit. I will start on the big tender tomorrow. I will build the stock short tender as a spare to park in the engine facility. Cheers Mike
You're going to be able to pull bad teeth, and a few good ones, with that beast!
I look forward to more progress photos.
-Crandell
She is one heavy beast, and there is room for more right behind the boiler face. I will max out the weight once I get the wire run for the headlight. I use the metal engine as one part of the circuit and just run the hot wire from the motor to the correct side of the LED. There is a 470 ohm resistor inline with that wire. The headlight is blinding bright and lights up the rails in the dark. Mike
Mike, that should be a real nice engine when you're done. Those M-1's always had a curious hump backed look to the boiler and Bowser did a good job of getting that right.
This one's gonna look great! Can't wait to see it finished. Too bad Bowser nixed the steam kits... I've wanted one of those since I was *yaay* high....
Charles, you can still get them. Bowser maintains a small stock of engine parts and will produce a few kits when they get enough backorders. You can go to
http://bowser-trains.com/holocos/holocos.htm, place a backorder, and hope you get lucky.
Or camp out on ebay like I did and buy your kit that way. I am always watching dealers tables for the signature green Bowser boxes when I am at train shows as well. I only gave $75 for my kit. I picked up a seperate sale long haul tender kit for $18 at the local hobby shop. When I get the $$ for parts, I do plan to get a spare set of main side rods for it as spares, My steam tends to get its wheels run off at club. Mike
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