Fixing old stuff

[nachoman]

Here is more of a unique one.  The boiler came from my first MDC HOn3 2-8-0 kit.  I left it in the sun to dry after painting, and the sun was strong enough to warp the cab, and put hairline cracks in the smokebox.  I found a new boiler on Ebay, and this one sat in my junk box for 20 years.   The drivers I ordered from Athearn parts right after they bought MDC, knowing those parts would quickly become unavailable.  They said they had a few sets.  The tender is from an IHC 4-4-0 that sat in my junk box for years.  I cut it down for HOn3.   The cab is from an old Bachmann 0-6-0 that I bought at a train show when I was 14.  The thing ran about a week before the axle sleeves cracked.  The frame I designed and 3-d printed.  I also 3-d printed a new smokebox front.  

Yes, it runs, but needs some fine tuning.  Just no place to run it at the moment, so getting it to run smooth is low priority.