06-13-2012, 04:20 AM
Hello Gus
Are you the "Steamhead" that steered me to this site from Zealot..
If so, thanks a lot, there is more train info on here than the other.
Are there any NYC historians out there, I am rebuildinfg a NYC 4-6-4 Tenshodo about 50 yrs old, that I bought as a wreck years ago. It's running quite nicely fwd but noisy in reverse, so I suppose it's a canditate for a can motor and gear box.
My query is:
It was lettered for NP when I got it, and it has a an Elesco FWH added tothe smoke box front like an NYC 4-8-2.
All the piping is there so it seems to have been factory applied. But the original authntic FWH is also there sunk into the smokebox, as you would expect. I've relettered the tender for NYC as it is clearly a NYC Hudson, judging by wheel diameter a Boston & Albany J1, but now with a 6 wheel truck larger tender. It should be renumbered 5455 up.
I wonder if anybody knows whether the added FWH is authentic on the prototype, and if so a road number.
I don't want o take the added FWH off as the loco actually looks good that way, and as I'm not a NYC modeler (C&O pref)
I would leave it alone . I have a BLI J1d with sound for authentic.
Are you the "Steamhead" that steered me to this site from Zealot..
If so, thanks a lot, there is more train info on here than the other.
Are there any NYC historians out there, I am rebuildinfg a NYC 4-6-4 Tenshodo about 50 yrs old, that I bought as a wreck years ago. It's running quite nicely fwd but noisy in reverse, so I suppose it's a canditate for a can motor and gear box.
My query is:
It was lettered for NP when I got it, and it has a an Elesco FWH added tothe smoke box front like an NYC 4-8-2.
All the piping is there so it seems to have been factory applied. But the original authntic FWH is also there sunk into the smokebox, as you would expect. I've relettered the tender for NYC as it is clearly a NYC Hudson, judging by wheel diameter a Boston & Albany J1, but now with a 6 wheel truck larger tender. It should be renumbered 5455 up.
I wonder if anybody knows whether the added FWH is authentic on the prototype, and if so a road number.
I don't want o take the added FWH off as the loco actually looks good that way, and as I'm not a NYC modeler (C&O pref)
I would leave it alone . I have a BLI J1d with sound for authentic.