Bowser Casey Jones Kadee Coupler Questions

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I had two Varney boilers, but no chassis' or tenders, so mounted the boilers on Bachmann Ten Wheeler mechanisms, and used the Bachmann tenders (shortened and narrowed), along with cabs from Bachmann Consolidations...





Wayne

Nice! Are the detail parts from the Bachmanns, too?

You've managed to kill two (or three) birds with one stone:

1. The Varney's almost complete lack of detail
2. The Bachmann's inability to pull its own shadow

If you manged to couple the excellent Bachmann mechanism with the Varney weight and didn't have to spend $80 on brass detail parts, I'd call that a win.

I have a Pyle Headlight casting and a Precision Scale Frisco numberboard, so I think I'll go ahead and grind off the headlight and install those. It will be a stand in for one of these: