Ferocious Switchers?

Yes those switchers fronts look as if they came from MAD MAX: BEYOND THUNDERDOME!

There's just something about an Elesco feedwater heater:

Jim

I would also like to have an operating model of the famous IHB "worlds most powerful" steam switcher. Those IHB 0-8-0s had three cylinders, plus a front truck tender booster! I seriously considering getting one of those plastic, un-powered O Scale model, and just have it sit on a roundhouse garden track. They really were GREAT looking 0-8-0s.

Someone with far better computer skills than I, should post some photos of them.

Here are some scans of an article in the August 1977 Railroad Model Craftsman magazine. It was my introduction to what you could do with the AHM 0-8-0 and weathered steam in general. It also inspired my first fling into 2-rail O scale.

The article was by Randy Hartner with photography by Tim Jackson.

By the way, US Hobbies imported a beautiful, smooth-running brass 0-8-0 that was the basis for my first 2-rail O scale switching layout - wish I had kept it....or at least taken some photos.

Jim

Here is that US Hobbies 2-rail O scale version:

Jim

This thought above, posted, sent me to look at an 0-8-0 , not IHB, that had been blown out at York, and I will be asking questions about it on another post.

Believe me, if it isn't a model of the IHB 0-8-0, which has NEVER been produced in 3-Rail, it will look NOTHING like the huge IHB U4 class 0-8-0 pictured above.

Hot Water:  Not modeling the IHB, so that is not important.  Just trying to get a "family resemblance" to locos I like.   The road I model would never had the massive switching needs of the IHB.  The IHB 0-8-0 had two pumps on the left side...I am mulling

over putting them on the smoke box, so....

One thing that makes that plastic model look huge and ferocious is that it is 17/64 scale.

Opinion.

I had two of them.  Nine dollars and ninety cents each.  Detail you would not believe.  Plastic.

Well, yes there ARE two pumps mounted on the left side, but only the rear pump is an air compressor. The forward pump is the Elesco Feedwater System pump, and would NEVER be "mounted on the smokebox" due to its requirement of pumping preheated water, from the exhaust steam, into the boiler.

Contrary to the original poster's claim of "flying pumps", the IHB U4 Class 0-8-0s did NOT have "flying pumps".

I didn't closely look at the AHM models on the net, or dig out my, buried somewhere, AHM model, but was thinking of the C&O and its "flying pump" appearance on some locos. One of those C&O locos, I think the Pacific by MTH, but not the Mikado, has been done in three rail.  Photos posted immedately in response to my post made it clear the IHB loco, with its Elesco, did not have "flying pumps". While Grande, SP, and even NdeM articulateds had the Elesco and "flying pumps", my repage of the 1941

Locomotive Cyclopeda doesn't show even one stinkin' small export loco as having

that arrangement, which was the inquiry intended in my original post.  However, that

very thick book only shows photos of relatively few steamers.

Not the best picture, but the only one I could find at the moment. A guy in our modular club uses one of them as a static display next to his train museum:

I believe they made a motor kit for these too, though I don't know how well it would work.

J White

Dan Henon in the March/April  1984 issue of 'O Scale News' wrote:

"CORRECTION     In the last issue I stated that the Rivarossi material was 7mmm/ft and especially mentioned the IHB 0-8-0.  Well comparison with of this engine with prototype drawings in the 1941 Locomotive Encyclopedia show that the Rivarossi model is an exact 1/48th of the real thing.  The FM C-Liners are too."

But he goes on to say "However the European passenger cars and freight cars are built to 7mm/ft or 1/43.5." 

    This statement is not correct;  they are 1/45.

[ Incidently, I copied his quotes just as they appear in the magazine.  I was given a bunch of old OSN's and OSR's ( the latter the predecessor of OGR as we know it ) at York which is how I ran across this.  I already had most of them -- but "every magazine is new until you've read it thirty or forty times".]

Best, SZ