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Now that's a very pretty Iron Horse!
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What details did you add to it, and which ones came from Athearn? Is the tender an Athearn product? What about the smokebox air compressors? I also notice there is still an air compressor mounted on the side of the boiler (or is that a feedwater pump?) I am always glad to see others detailing steam locomotives. It looks great - those smokebox compressors are a unique look.
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Back in the early '70s as a teen I had a black light poster of a steam engine that included the inscription, "Deep in the consciousness of every American lies the image of a steam locomotive". I think that just might be true! Despite being a diesel fan and modeler I am always captivated by steam and the photos of steam locomotives posted here. Thanks Les and all you steam fans.
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nachoman Wrote:What details did you add to it, and which ones came from Athearn? Is the tender an Athearn product? What about the smokebox air compressors? I also notice there is still an air compressor mounted on the side of the boiler (or is that a feedwater pump?) I am always glad to see others detailing steam locomotives. It looks great - those smokebox compressors are a unique look.
All I did was move the headlight using a brass CalScale . Add the flying pumps,Feed water tank, number boards and bell from a Riverossi, change the tender to a Mantua Vanderbuilt. I painted it with Polly scale engine black. I also used Polly scale oily black on the drive rods, I can't remember the correct name for them. A few years ago I would have done a lot more and still might try to later but heath reasons make it very difficult now. As far as the compressor on the side goes in the photos I have it is there. So I don't know.
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I have added a before photo to the original post so you can compare the before and after.
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The Mantua vanderbuilt, is a good representation of the 12VC tender. Bachmann was marketing the 16VA tender. I was able to get two of those, some years back. I'm thinking of adding the booster engines on the trailing trucks, when I get around to actually doing the conversions to C&O Ks.
I like what you've done, looks great! The "flying pumps", and Elesco tank, really "toughen up" the look of those engines.
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Those "flying" pumps and the Vanderbilt tender really identify that as a C&O loco, Les - nice work!
Kevin is right, though, about the air pump on the side of the loco - it should be a cold water pump for the Elesco feedwater heater. They do look somewhat similar to a cross compound air pump.
Here's a photo that shows the pump and some of its associated piping. At the extreme left of the photo is a cross compound air pump:
This is the front end of the same loco, showing the balance of the feedwater heater piping. While the routing of the piping varied from one railroad to the next, with some of it sometimes hidden, the connections are generally universal.
Adding all of the piping can be a chore, and your loco still looks good without it, Les. You've captured the C&O "look" very nicely and she should run and pull better than the original version, too.
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Dang, Wayne. That's some awesome detailing. I am hoping to "finish" a brass steamer I started for the upcoming challenge. Actually, I should just commit to finishing the tender. After all, i am a procrastinator!
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Thanks, Kevin.
I've found that procrastination, coupled with my poor memory, usually means that projects get put-off for a couple of weeks, and are then totally forgotten. I've got shelves and boxes filled with all sorts of stuff I don't recall starting or even what my original intention was. Occasionally, I come across one that looks promising in some way, but, should I decide to work on it, there's no guarantee that it will bear any resemblance to whatever it was that I originally intended.
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Wayne -
Thanks for adding those photos. One question - in the bottom photo, where does the lagged pipe that runs along the right side of the loco go to (or come from)?
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Andrew, that pipe comes from the loco's steam dome, and terminates in a fitting on the smokebox front. In service, it was used to provide steam to a Barber-Greene Sno-Loader, a device that picked up snow, dumped it into a tender and melted it. Used mostly in yards, I'd guess, where there was limited room to use a plow. Here's a scan of a photo from an unknown source:
...and here's a clearer look at the pipe in question:
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doctorwayne Wrote: ... all sorts of stuff I don't recall starting or even what my original intention was. ... should I decide to work on it, there's no guarantee that it will bear any resemblance to whatever it was that I originally intended.
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With all of my moves from one state to another, back and forth across the country for a promotion within one company or a new job with another company, there have been times when all my stuff was in transit or in storage and I was in a motel waiting for stuff or a place to live and to beat the boredom of mindless TV, I'd buy some interesting kit, a new XActo w/#11's, a tube of Amboid and another of Goo, some Plastruct bonding agent and start a new kit. When unpacking after this last move, I was amazed at some of the partially built (but carefully packed) freight cars and structures that I will have to work into my overall track plan, now that I realize that I have them.
Maybe I'll pick one of the older ones to finish up for the Procrastinator Challenge!
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