Start Foaming..Lets See the STEAM!!!

[UP4-8-8-4]

    AH, nstars, that full skirted version of the T1 is great !
Mines the deskirted version.

One of the ones i'm still after ------------------- 

Nice pics of your other steamers as well.


Ernie

[UP4-8-8-4]

I like the distance from turn table lip to round house door that the Heljan now
Walther's round house allows, i.e. the 7 + inches.  I like to be able to display engines on that track.

     This is a very early pic of my roundhouses before the extention of the four stalls on the large one and the addition of the small stalls on the small one and painting them.
Shows just how much more distance there is using the Heljan roundhouses compaired to the Athearn ones from the Athearn turntable edge.





Ernie

[wazzou]

Shows just how much more distance there is using the Heljan roundhouses compaired to the Athearn ones from the Athearn turntable edge.

Ernie

 
I'm sure you must've meant Walther's.   

[UP4-8-8-4]

 
I'm sure you must've meant Walther's.   

   WOOPS  , ER, I ment to say ------------------------ "WALTERS" !
SENIOR MOMENT ------------------------ 
I call them that every time, thanks for the correction.
Now to TRY to lock that in my memory.



Ernie

[UP4-8-8-4]

   Walthers, with an "H" ------------------ 
I can't spell either !
lol


Ernie

[draskouasshat]

It must be nice to model ATSF, UP or PRR where it seems all the locos share a common look. You can use one boiler to make another. Being a very frugal railroad, the B&O purchased only a couple USRA or USRA copy locos, most were built in house or aquired from other railroads and there is no family resemblance except for most have high headlights and a few common tender designs.

The one thing I am not seeing here is much C&O. C&O seems like it would be a great road to kitbash considering all the parts available in already produced locos. You have a Berkshire, two 2-6-6-2's, a Heavy Mountain and a few others that have many of the parts needed to build other loco's from. Once I get deeper into completing my B&O projects, C&O will be next.

Ummm, the ATSF didnt own ANY USRA steamers and all of their locos were built to theyre specs and then modified at Topeka. As for sharing boilers, i think not. Im not trying to be a dick but  making ATSF steam is by no means an easy task with mechs OR boilers(trust me, i know this).

[SkipGear]

I've just seen a lot of ATSF stuff based on parts for the Bachmann Northern. I know their smaller locos are one offs for the most part. The large ATSF locos seem to share cabs and some other parts. It's still more than anyone modeling B&O, B&M, ACL, Erie, or many other roads have to work from.

Many of the mainline B&O locos cabs for the most part had brakeman extensions, something that no one has modeled yet on a production loco.

[Chris333]

brakeman extensions

I don't think I've ever seen anything like that before.

[Lemosteam]

I made a photographic catalog of the RLW parts I have bought - it is in RailImages:

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/2063

I sent all of these images to RLW, for free, so that they could update their website.  I even sized them the same and applied the same naming convention so that all they had to do was to FTP the files to their server, but they still didn't use them.

Rasputen, thanks for the link!!  I was going to do the very same thing for them!  It's a shame because the castings are very nice and I like those folks alot.  Do you mind if I copy your images to my collection?

[superturbine]

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Great contributions everyone...... Let's keep it going!

[keeper]

Is this for US steam only? I could add a few German steamers (stock models) if you are interested.

Thomas

[keeper]

... like this one:



Thomas

[mmagliaro]

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Great contributions everyone...... Let's keep it going!

Keep it going???  Okay then...

My PRR T1

[randgust]

Nothing if not unique...

Wheeler & Dusenbury 47-ton Heisler #7 ("Bigfoot") parks on a hot July 1922 Sunday afternoon at the Endeavor shops while little Tionesta Valley & Hickory Class A Climax #101 is inside visiting for some running gear repairs.  Hopefully they'll both be back to work on Monday morning.

[Lemosteam]

God you guys are KILLING me with the T1 pics!  ARRRGH.  Help me superturbine!  I'm almost a green as Richie!