MDC/ROUNDHOUSE locomotive rebuilds

[cnrglen]

Thanks Matt.
I'm really getting into these older locomotives now. I pretty much finished this one off this morning.

I assembled the locomotive yesterday and today added the details.

I added the headlight, upper numberplate, and air hose to the front as well as the marker lamps.

I had to fabricate a new drawbar for the tender as it had a larger mounting hole that the original. I know that the tender trucks are incorrect but I'll leave them the way they are until I find some better ones.

The bell is the casting that I repaired. I have yet to weather the engine but it will mostly just receive a light weathering, concentrating mostly on the smokebox, ash pan and running gear. Both Canadian Pacific and Canadian National kept their engines looking fairly good right up to the end of steam operations.

Lastly I added the bunker extension and the coal load. The coal load was created with a piece of high-density foam as a filler and then covered with woodland Scenics mine-run coal, held in place with diluted Matt Medium.

Now that this project is pretty much done I can show you the next loco in the shop:

I'm planning to build A Canadian National 2-8-0 N-5-A class.
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Specifically a 2600 series, as it has the most similarities to the MDC locomotive's valve gear.