Bowser Decapod

[leon]

I have reciently finished a Bowser Decapod kit and will attach some photo's of it here. Just wondering what you may think of the finished loco.

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Leon

[nachoman]

That's sweet work! does it run well?

[iis612]

Very Nice!!!!!!

[leon]

Yes. It does run good. I broke it in on a figure 8 for a few hours.

[doctorwayne]

Nice work, Leon

I removed the out-of-focus photos and replaced them with the better ones which you had sent to me, as per your request. Well worth the effort, in my opinion.

Wayne

[P5se Camelback]

Wow! I was sure that I was overly tired and my glasses were dirtier last night than I thought!

Now that I've cleaned my specs and I'm wide awake, that's a nice looking Decapod! Very nice job! Can't wait to see it at work, haulin' hoppers!

[Steamtrains]

Gotta love that Pennsy heavy steam....That tender looks bigger than some engines...
Very nice.....

[Schraddel]

A very nice done work.

Lutz

[leon]

Why am I not authorised to see the pictures of this locomotive?

[leon]

OK! I wasn't logged in.

[EM-1_7600]

VERY nice work on the Bowser Decapod in Pennsy!!!!!

Now, I'm gonna post one too!

Tell me whats different with mine, from yours! (Or anyone else for that matter that knows!)





I'll say tho, This is NOT gonna be a PRR model.. I'm making it a Western Maryland I-2, 2-10-0 #1111 "Four Aces" as they called it in Hagerstown Rounhouse!

[doctorwayne]

Your locomotive's boiler looks a lot like the one used on the Tyco/Mantua Mikado, while the tender appears to be Bowser's Pennsy "Long Haul" tender.

Wayne

[EM-1_7600]

Wayne,
You would be right.... This is how the locomotive will become a Western Maryland I-2. The boiler of the Mantua "heavy" series of 2-8-2 boilers, were almost perfect for the Western Maryland's I-2's, except one thing! The sand dome needs to be moved closer to the smoke box edge! Other then that major modification, the rest is in the detail work on the die cast shell itself!

The tender, is actually perfectly sized, the only thing needing done there is to cut the "fold" off the coal bunker sides, and make it straight up and down without the angled in top flap.....Then add the underside frame work, and you have a I-2 tender for the Western Maryland!

Interesting to say the least,m BUT a good project to do!

I'm also doing a Western Maryland J-1 as well, which is much more involved then this one!