Start Foaming..Lets See the STEAM!!!

[carlso]

Marc,

You should be very pleased with that locomotive. The video, for first runs, shows some rad s curves in the crossovers and turnouts but that beauty took them in stride, even in reverse. Great job. That is a casting from ST ?

Carl

[mmagliaro]

That T1 is simply magnificent.  It is the best looking and best running T1 I have ever seen.  I've seen some nice
HO T1 models run, like the BLI one, but they are no match for that thing.  What a masterpiece.

Congratulations on some very smart engineering design and excellent construction.  Great model!

[TVRR]

Awe and avarice are the emotions that are uppermost when I looked at your new creation. Have wanted one for ages, nice to know that someone is creating them again. Five stars, sir.

[pjm20]

That T1 is a work of art! Show BLI! 

[victor miranda]

how does one write a post that says
I am dumbfounded.

nice T1 and I can only hope I get to meet it.

in the mean time I'll have to make my own

  God, I have a big mouth....

cheers!

victor

[superturbine]

so lift the shell enough for me to see the beautiful work you did on the chassis!

Well done my friend, well done!!

[Loren Perry]

If this isn't a testament to the virtues of a well-executed tender drive system, I don't know what is. Especially for a large, high-drivered passenger engine like the T1 Duplex. So many technical barriers have been overcome or simply eliminated, I could only attempt to list them all. You've achieved mechanical smoothness, scale speed, stability, ease of maintenance, pulling power, and good scale appearance - the marks of a superior locomotive in any scale. N-scale steam locomotive designers everywhere, please take note. Exceptionally well done, sir! Now let's see it detailed and finished to the same degree of excellence, please!

[peteski]

Very nice!

Fleischmann has been using this type of drive in their N scale steam locos since the early days of N scale (and they still do now).  Even with much smaller tenders in European-prototype locos, this type of drive works quite well (with multiple traction tires). A much larger tender like the one in this loco is even more conducive to this type of a drive system.

[Nato]

      'Wozzers!" Tender Drive eh! I will have to dig out the several small Flieschman steamers I purchased in the 1970's. My only complaint they had no slow speed. Nate Goodman (Nato). Salt Lake, Utah.

[Cajonpassfan]

The "little Hudson" 3452 by PRB is a most recent acquisition, just posing here. I got it at the Sacramento convention last week. It still needs to be DCC'd and converted to sound. It also needs more detailing, paint, and weathering. Still, a very nice loco, and while it's called "little" on the ATSF, it's basically the size and weight of the  much more famous NYC J's, with 79" drivers, less the weight of streamline sheet metal. The "big" 3460 ATSF class   Hudsons are a whole another story...
Regards, Otto K. [ Guests cannot view attachments ]

[rogergperkins]

B'mann dcc with sound relettered for Baltimore and Ohio; one of two.

[nscaleSPF2]

PRR H10.  Bachmann 2-8-0 mechanism, Mashima motor, Jason Smith boiler and tender shells, TCS decoder.  More info here:

https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=35967.0

[Blackout]

It took a little bit longer, but here some additional pictures of the T1.


Together with the S1 and the other T1.


Details of the loco


Top view.


And for anybody who forgot it, the tender drive.

Marc

Magnificence.  How much did it cost to create such an item?

[Nato]

         The first photo is of my Stock Con Cor Union Pacific 2-10-2 on the Wasatch N Scale layout in 2011 at the Evanston\,  Wyoming Roundhouse Festival. The rest of the photos show the kitbashing work by Bob Gilmore (UP 3985) recently made to this locomotive. I supplied a Con Cor GN S2 vandy tender for the project, Changes include relocated bell, UP style  cab with armrests, weathering wind deflectors on cab. Still ahead a Decoder install. As you can see the loki was renumbered. Scene's on my N Scale layout, photos by Bob Gilmore, "Thanks for all the work !" Nate Goodman (Nato) Salt Lake, Utah.

Thought I'd jump in here...This is a foob of course...the idea was to give it a UP personality with minimal mods.  The tender was pretty easy to do, with only mods on the front of it for cab clearance.  The bell got moved up to the top (and the hole plugged in the smokebox face), the headlight's hood was removed and the cab got its windows removed, etched wind deflectors and plastic armrests added.  New paint with Micro Scale UP Steam aluminum lettering.  I never could get the ubiquitous UP toolboxes to look good on the back of the tender so just the mounting brackets are there.  Needs a backup light, wind deflectors on the cab, and maybe rolled up canvas shades and cab curtains.  Maybe Nate will let me do that in the future?????? 
This was a fun project, except after it got reassembled, it wouldn't run!!  I finally took my 125psi compressor blower to it...and VOILA!!! ...it mysteriously ran like a top!   (Bob Gilmore)

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[Nato]

Reply, Nate Goodman (Nato).

Nate Goodman w/his N scale Layout Salt Lake City UT 001 by ngoodmanlgcy, on Flickr