KriegslokBR52
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Thank you. these rounded details are deffinitely challenging and much time is spent just fine tunning them to fit properly.
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KriegslokBR52
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Today it was finally time to build proper pilot for that locomotive. On one of train shows i came in contact with two very early pictures of #s 401 and 402 soon after delivery from Baldwin:
There's no author posted except "Baldwin Locomotives", so i'm assuming it was someone from BLW making promotional shots. Anyway i think those solid prows at the front are cool looking. Problem is most pictures available of these machines are either during, or post WW II. All of them show wooden step going across under the pilot. Not having any measurements i put steps on the pilot first as those seem exactly the same as on factory delivered Western Maryland machines:
Next using this picture and having basic height dimentions as per Western Maryland version i eyeballed the rest on a scale drawing.
Here is that solid prow just about ready to solder in:
And overall shot with some details still to do:
Mean looking
Still a bunch of details to go on that pilot; hand rail, uncoupling bar and what looks like some kind of pins up front in triangular clevices. More to come.
There's no author posted except "Baldwin Locomotives", so i'm assuming it was someone from BLW making promotional shots. Anyway i think those solid prows at the front are cool looking. Problem is most pictures available of these machines are either during, or post WW II. All of them show wooden step going across under the pilot. Not having any measurements i put steps on the pilot first as those seem exactly the same as on factory delivered Western Maryland machines:
Next using this picture and having basic height dimentions as per Western Maryland version i eyeballed the rest on a scale drawing.
Here is that solid prow just about ready to solder in:
And overall shot with some details still to do:
Mean looking
Still a bunch of details to go on that pilot; hand rail, uncoupling bar and what looks like some kind of pins up front in triangular clevices. More to come.
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