Dressing Up An MDC/Athearn Steam Loco
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It certainly looks better but that tender is all wrong. I guess the motor is in the tender so it's not easy to fix that problem. The tender is way too short and the coal bunker leaves no room for water. I guess there's no other tender you could use unless you could pull off that body and at least get the coal bunker to water ratio right.
Bob S
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It's been done before.
http://www.modelrailroadforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7046
The loco in the old post has been tweaked again to resemble GBW 92 more closely.
The cab is made from an old Bachmann switcher cab, with the high arch roof from a Bachmann Reading I-10 2-8-0. The extra sand dome was lathe-turned from a 6.5mm cast bullet. The boiler with it's odd dimensions now more closely resembles GBW 92. The superheater pipes and Universal Valve Kit (a bolt-on piston valve kit) will be modeled with bits of styrene. The tender shell was cobbled together with bits of styrene to add length and reshape. It will go around the 10" radius curves on my test loop with that close spacing with no interference. It's still a work in progress, with much more tweaking to do.
This one has been completely reboilered with a Bachmann switcher body. A lead "saddle" sits over the frame for weight-on-drivers, and it will pull the paint off the bulkheads.
I'm working on putting the motor in a Bachmann old-style USRA switcher tender with Kato caboose trucks for pick-up. It's not rocket science, just time consuming. And I'm running out of Bachmann carcasses to cannibalize.
Resp'y,
Bob S.
http://www.modelrailroadforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7046
The loco in the old post has been tweaked again to resemble GBW 92 more closely.
The cab is made from an old Bachmann switcher cab, with the high arch roof from a Bachmann Reading I-10 2-8-0. The extra sand dome was lathe-turned from a 6.5mm cast bullet. The boiler with it's odd dimensions now more closely resembles GBW 92. The superheater pipes and Universal Valve Kit (a bolt-on piston valve kit) will be modeled with bits of styrene. The tender shell was cobbled together with bits of styrene to add length and reshape. It will go around the 10" radius curves on my test loop with that close spacing with no interference. It's still a work in progress, with much more tweaking to do.
This one has been completely reboilered with a Bachmann switcher body. A lead "saddle" sits over the frame for weight-on-drivers, and it will pull the paint off the bulkheads.
I'm working on putting the motor in a Bachmann old-style USRA switcher tender with Kato caboose trucks for pick-up. It's not rocket science, just time consuming. And I'm running out of Bachmann carcasses to cannibalize.
Resp'y,
Bob S.
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