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I no longer have money or an airbrush so the Bachmann tender it is.I also have no job or other source of income.I had to up my bid on the Atlas 0-4-0 so I have to see if I have any surplus items in my fleet to sell so that I can buy an L1 cab.The 0-4-0 will leave me with $2 to my name. Finding and buying the Bachmann tender for $10 at Bedford is what got this project back to the forefront of my mind.In the diagram the tender looks longer than the engine itselfIn the photo it looks to be a bit shorter than the engine, so going by eye, the Bachmann tender would work.-Cody F.
Not sure if you would be interested, but you could use an 0-6-0 shell from minitrix. its plastic, had a belpair firebox and not sure how close the cab would be. you would definately have to splice it. You can get the 0-6-0 shells and K4 minitrix shell castings from Jeff at PRR-parts.com.
Hate to contradict, but the Minitrix B6 shell is definitely not plastic. It's metal, and not inconsequential to cut. Not impossible, but not as simple as cutting plastic.
You can outsource this painting project to me. You pay shipping. I have never had much luck with painting by hand. But try it and see if it works for you. It may be less apparent on an N scale dirty steam engine than it would on something long and smooth. Plus, you'll be working with flats which are much more forgiving. Or, I hear Tamiya rattle cans are pretty amazing.
Cody,Violating "Rule #1" with regard to engineering drawings and scaling from the diagram, I get a distance of 39" from the rear edge of the firebox to the rear wall of the cab. Adding that to other specified dimensions, the overall length of the locomotive is 26'-6" from pilot beam to rear wall of the cab. The diagram gives an overall length of the tender as 26'-3", or about the same length as the locomotive. For comparison, the Trix tender measures 26'-10" over end beams. The truck centres, however, are only 13'-1" compared to 14'-8" on the diagram.As others have said, the Trix tender sounds like the best bet.Cheers,
Cody, you may want to join the N-Scale PRR Yahoo Group if you haven't already. Jon Vincent's A5 turned out really nice! Details and pics are here:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PRR-n_scale/photos/album/1152390462/pic/listCourtesy of Jon's Yahoo A5 image gallery:
That's a really nice model, but the boiler seems a bit "light" compared to the A5s.
A5s had a very limited distribution... Most seem to have been found in Philly with a few in Altoona and a handful of others.The tiny tender assured that it rarely moved around the system; I suspect it deadheaded if ever it did.