EDIT on 03/29/15 at noon. I finished this (and really like the result) and report on the completed model in a posting farther down made this morning (03/29/15 at about 11:40 AM).
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I ordered an LC+ Hudson which should arrive early next week. I intend to bash it as I have four times now into a "scale-ish" loco, something that mixes well with scale 0-8-0s, Atlantics, etc. So far I have done four LC+ steamers that way.
Any suggestions on what loco? In order to bash it into a scale loco, the real-world prototype I would be modeling needs to have:
- six drivers, evenly spaced,
- 60" diameter or thereabouts
- a driver wheelbase of just at 12 feet.
- overall loco wheelbase of around 34 feet (I can fiddle this about two feet one way or another.
And of course I can play with the pilot truck, etc., as needed.
The closest match I have found is the ATSF 1800 class Prairie. I've made one model of that from the LC+ Hudson already
