How many put locos together piecemeal like this? Been working on just finding the major parts for this mess. It is a 1939 5640 Hudson, 3/16ths O gauge. It started off with finding the boiler with mainrods in one auction for $15. Later picked up a prewar tender shell missing a couple of steps for $10, then got lucky on a tender framewith trucks for $20 or so. Last major portion was the motor and correct rear truck for a verygood price as well. Still had to steal a steamchest from another wreck and still need a boiler front. That said I now have an all original 5640 Hudson. So at this point all I did was bolt it together to make sure all parts fit and castings are solid. So far so good. Drivers turn smooth as well. So this represents my main method for ending up with many of these prewar difficult to find locos. Definitely not collector grade but again it is all original parts and once I go through it and polish up the plated parts It should be a keeper. Added the auction pictures showing the nice boiler auction and the motor and broken boiler auction contents.
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