Canadian Pacific 2-8-0 Kitbash

[sailormatlac]

None of the photos in the link were taken from a straight on side view. As near as I could tell looking at them, the front truck of the tender has the front wheel just about even with front of the fireman's platform at the front of the tender. If you have a large radius, that will allow close coupling of the tender to the engine, I think you could model that feature without having operational problems. I would just mount the drawbar to the front truck mounting screw on the tender. Of course it won't work on anything much smaller than a 30 inch radius and might require an even larger radius. Of course the limiting factor on radius I think is how much space you have between the tender body and the back of the cab. Also the back of the cab being a solid wall, makes it difficult to do any sort of tight radius because a normal cab without a back wall might allow a tender to slightly encroach on a tight radius, no encroachment possible with your cab design on this model.

Hi Russ,

I'm using a CPR diagram to locate the truck. The front wheel axle is almost aligned where the tender wall starts on the fireman platform. My minimum radius is 24" at some points on the layout. So close coupling is out of sight for me. However, I think your idea about mounting the drawbar on the truck screw is a neat solution to this problem.

The solid wall on the cab isn't as low as the cab ladders. It won't take a lot of grinding to make room for the platform.

Thanks for your input, helpful and at the right moment!

Matt