Accucraft's 2-8-0
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Wow. A 19th century 2-8-0. It is brass and steel...and beautiful! I wonder how long it has been since their was a mass produced brass locomotive in On3...or for that matter, a new brass On3 locomotive for way under $1000.

I hope they follow up with a DSP&P version, as they did with their large scale version...with a Nesmith stack and Baldwin green paint.

She'll take 18" curves in On30 and 24" in On3. They are offering her in both modern and old versions. I'll start saving...I sure hope that this means a Mason Bogie could be on the way (they've offered one in large scale)...but I doubt it. A Florence and Cripple Creek locomotive would be the next most logical prototype...they operated on the D&RGW, RGS, Southern Pacific, Uintah, and a variety of others.
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DSP&P in On3? No time like the present for some photos to be posted. Let's get the narrow gauge forum cooking!

I'd be very interested in seeing the Bachmann Fn3 2-6-6-2T, in On30!
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Those 2-6-6-2s really have my eye as well...especially the On3 ones.

My main DSP&P layout is in the future. My current pike...which is going to begin receiving scenery is going to have just a little flavor of colorado railroading in general...a curved wooden trestle, a canon scene with a stream, a fishing stop on the stream, a small western town, and some other misc scenes.

The Alpine Tunnel district (slight chance of a change to Boreas, Fremont, or Kenosha Pass) is at least 5 years in the future.

Right now, I'm mostly interested in building up the roster to approx 12 passenger cars, 2 business cars, 25 coal cars, 5 flat cars, 20 boxcars, 4 way cars, and a few reefers and stock cars. Currently, I have 1 coal car, 1 boxcar, 1 way car, 1 flat car, 1 lime car and a business car near completion. 1 coal car, 1 stock, and another boxcar are mid-construction. A few others are in the early stages. Most of the other stock is pre-scratch building (and not accurate for the South Park) so I don't count it.

Lime car (I've built trucks for it)....
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26' South Park Flat car (now essentially complete)
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Way car
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Baggage Car
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Stock Car
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Pay Car
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Mogul #40
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Layout under construction
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Misc Cars
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23' Colorado Central Flat
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27' Coal Car Type A
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26' B&S and 27' UP built Boxcars (both South Park)
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Baggage & 2 coaches (the coach sides are, shy of the window panes & name ovals, done)
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Thanks for the overview of your projects and layout Goldth Your layout room reminds me of the 3rd floor bedroom where my uncles used to set up their lionel trains for me and my brother when I was a kid - with the slanted ceilings!
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Nice job and by the way what a mess in the layout room, err just like mine. Icon_lol
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wgrider Wrote:Nice job and by the way what a mess in the layout room, err just like mine. Icon_lol

Cheers

Actually, the bench work was to replace a scene which looked much more like a post-catastrophic natural disaster zone. It is a bit cleaner now. The bench work is 2' tall (I know, absurdly low...but the roof made me do it). I first laid the mainline on foam, and everything you see in the room was in the middle. I built up the bench work and slid everything but the guitar rack and marshall stack under it. Once the basic scenery is in place, it'll look pretty nice. (and I'll gain trackage rights to the other half of the room to solve a problem: only 1/4th the sidings I need for my roster).
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Great Modeling Thumbsup

Hope to join the ranks of scratch building rolling stock in S and O scales(including On30)
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#8
That's a really nice start you have going there. I was just wondering - how wide are your curves? Are you planning on running any really big locomotives like Ks, or sticking with 2-8-0s like C-16 and C-19s?
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Lighthorseman Wrote:That's a really nice start you have going there. I was just wondering - how wide are your curves? Are you planning on running any really big locomotives like Ks, or sticking with 2-8-0s like C-16 and C-19s?

Thank you.

No big locomotives for that layout (or D&RGW). The only big engines that really tempt me are the EBT mikes (but I'd prefer the prairie) and the Uintah mallets which regularly negotiated what would be 24" radius curves in O scale.

My primary locomotives for this layout will be moguls, and possibly a Porter-Bell 0-6-0, a 2-4-0, and a South Park Cooke 2-8-0.

My plans are to build up a roster based on the South Park of 1884...Cooke moguls, Brooks moguls, Baldwin C56 and Cooke 2-8-0s, Mason Bogies, and a Dawson & Bailey locomotive. Those are mostly for the future layout when we buy a larger home. I also have some odds and ends...a few 1870s D&RG locomotives, a Hawaiian 0-6-0, Colorado Central 0-6-0s, a CC Cooke 2-6-0, a CC 0-4-0, a C&S 2-6-0, a C&S B4E 2-8-0, an EBT 2-6-2, and either a RGS or F&CC 4-6-0. By the number, you can tell that this is the 40 year plan.

My min curve is 27"R, and thank you for checking, since that would cause trouble for the ubiquitous Ks that almost everyone runs. My Cooke 2-8-0 (under construction) is comparable in size to a C-16, with a very similar wheel spacing. The C-16s, C-19s, and all C&S 2-8-0s had either a 4'1"-3'2"-4'1" or 4'2"-3'1"-4'1" wheel spacing...the only exception to this is that BLI's On30 C-16 has a novel 3'4" spacing...and it looks atrocious!

Prior to the modern era of the D&RGW, they had such a variety of power. All D&RG locomotives in my future are probably of the early period...2-4-0s, the 2-6-0s with 4-wheel tenders, the Fairlie, a Class 42 4-4-0s and the not-so-old, never built 3' 2-8-8-2. My least favorite early locomotives are probably the Class 60s (C-16s)...but I'll take one of them over ANY modern Rio Grande locomotive.

I'm just thrilled about Accucraft's Class 60... I'm certain that the Bumble Bee 268 is what they expect to pay the bills on this...but they are the first C-16 producer since Kemtron to offer a 19th century version...another modern C-16 I could care less about...this is the 4th C-16 in On30/On3 to come out in the past 10yrs...so Accucraft Worship Less common 19th century products won't exist until the more popular ones (C60s and C42s) create/demonstrate the market. C-16s/C60s have one other major benefit...they provide a source of drivers for my DSP&P/C&S 2-8-0s and DSP&P Brooks 2-6-0s.

(Clarification for anyone not familiar with the Rio Grande's history...the Colorado/NM portion was originally the Denver & Rio Grande Railway...it became the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad in the 1920s. In D&RG days, locomotive classification was based off of the locomotive's weight...tractive effort during D&RGW days. Class 56 = C-14, Class 60 = C-16, Class 70 = C-17 or C-19. The locomotives of the 19th century were essentially different locomotives from their 20th century counterparts. In general, by the late 30s, most 1880s locomotives had new frames, new boilers, new cabs, new stacks, sometimes new drivers, sometimes new domes, new headlights, new pilots...essentially new locomotives).

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