P&WV 2-8-2 1053

[SkipGear]

Search E-bay for .127mm / .050"  pitch 50 pin header connectors, both male and female. I use them all the time and they will fit the Bachmann tenders. Just cut them down to the Number of pins you need...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/20Pcs-Gold-Plated-1-27mm-Pitch-Male-Single-Row-50-Pin-Straight-Pin-Header-Strip/172288953148?hash=item281d38cb3c:g:gOwAAOSwsYpZ-ycL

[nickelplate759]

Search E-bay for .127mm / .050"  pitch 50 pin header connectors, both male and female. I use them all the time and they will fit the Bachmann tenders. Just cut them down to the Number of pins you need...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/20Pcs-Gold-Plated-1-27mm-Pitch-Male-Single-Row-50-Pin-Straight-Pin-Header-Strip/172288953148?hash=item281d38cb3c:g:gOwAAOSwsYpZ-ycL

Hmm - I did that, but even though it's the right pitch it appears that the ones I bought are for smaller pins.  They'll plug into each other (I bought male & female), but not onto the Bachmann pins.  This is from the same vendor you pointed to - I'll try that, since it's inexpensive.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/10Pcs-Gold-Plated-1-27mm-Pitch-Single-Row-Straight-50-Pin-Female-Header-Strip/182219080699?hash=item2a6d1a83fb:g:~bcAAOSwH-dZ9Zb5

[ncbqguy]

Back in 2005 I did the artwork for the P&WV USRA Heavy 2-8-2.   It had the regular USRA road tender and I don't think I had a photo of the rear of the tender and had to guess on the lettering there....unless you are lucky photos of the rear of tenders are difficult to find unless there is a good shot of a roundhouse with the engines headed in as usual and not posed reversed.   The tender you are using would have 16 Tons of Coal and 12000 Gallons of Water.   From your picture I would say:

    16 TONS COAL
          1050
12000 GALLONS WATER   (or maybe without "COAL" and "WATER" on the lines)

Centered on the centerline of the tender with the roadnumber in a larger font.

From what I've seen on the web some engines were painted in Imitation Gold and some in White.

Nice job!!!

Charlie Vlk
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[SkipGear]

Just for peace of mind...one of the headers I have, plugged into a Bachmann C&O Vanderbilt Tender decoder board.

[nickelplate759]

Back in 2005 I did the artwork for the P&WV USRA Heavy 2-8-2.  ...

If that had gone into production (edit- in N scale) this project would never have happened.  I think I'm glad Kato never produced it - I've learned a lot (still learning, for that matter) on this project.

[ncbqguy]

It did go into production....it was BLI in HO.   I was gone from Kato by 2005 and doing my consulting thing.
If it isn’t a “major” road recognized outside the US they wouldn’t touch it.
 I don’t know how far into the road name list BLI will go.  In HO they hit almost all the USRA Mikado owners.
I haven’t done any work for them for over two years so have no idea what is next.
Charlie Vlk

[nickelplate759]

What is this HO of which you speak?

and

DOH!  I should have remembered that you have done work for BLI as well as Kato.

[nickelplate759]

Getting close!    Still have to add bell, class lights, whistle, handrails from smokebox to pilot and couplers.

[nickelplate759]

A few notes on the decorating:

Black is Tru Color TCP-171 Weathered Black, and graphite (smokebox and firebox) is Tru Color TCP-008 Graphite.  Oversprayed with TCP-017 Flat (clear).   The way the Kato castings disassemble meant no masking required at all, but I did hand paint the details on the smokebox front.

Decals are mix of heralds from a Rail Graphics HO set (out of print) by way of Great Decals (greatdecals.com), and several Microscale yellow alphabet and steam data sets.  Nearly every letter or numeral was individually applied - whew!

[mmagliaro]

Yeah!  Looks very good.  I like smokebox color.

[glakedylan]

very nicely done!
looking really good...


sincerely
Gary

[Lemosteam]

Agree with the others!  Looks really nice!

[nickelplate759]

A few more details added to the front.  I doctored the lighting and contrast of this photo to show a little more detail.  Still need the handrails to the pilot deck.


Blown up to this size, it's impressive how good Kato's die work is.

[mike_lawyer]

Seeing all these pictures of Kato Mikados makes me wish Kato would do another run of them.  Such a great engine, mine all run like Swiss watches.

[peteski]

Nice job Gerorge - that loco look amazing.
But the photo seems to have that "paint by numbers" feel to it.  I have noticed that effect in some photos taken by smart phones.  Probably something to do with the way they handle JPG compression.  Still, it clearly shows all those fine details (at a greatly enlarged size).