Locomotive Workshop Welded tender kit has arrived!

those kits are atrue Craftsman kits.     They are not for the faint of heart!

I had a friend who built the 4-4-0 kit and got it running nicely and painted NYC.   

I have a set of the Baldwin Shark bodies that I have built and powered once, and then repowered with the wonderful old Weaver single motor drive.    

I also looked at an RS1 kit once, but it looked like it was beyond my skill level.

Yes but I am a expierenced scake model and scratch built a rail tank so I should be able to figure it out!

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Thanks!

  They are not for the faint of heart!

 

Understatement of the month award!

Trucks test fitted.   [url=https://postimg.cc/V5mW3tQ4][img]https://i.postimg.cc/v862x7PR/20200828-131905.jpg[/img][/url]

Thanks.  I was not going to go there - they keep trying to sell me aircraft batteries.

If you are going to make a Mikado Dreyfuss, you might just as well have Pullman trucks under your tender.  The Santa Fe used them in the very early Mallet and Mikado days.

Yes not so much into accuracy..just will work with what I have on hand.Added a truck bolster made out of brass tubing with a plastic insert.  [url=https://postimg.cc/tYkbhwFy][img]https://i.postimg.cc/8zQCVV5F/20200828-152707.jpg[/img][/url]

Try the adhesive route...see if it works!    [url=https://postimg.cc/9r0pXqX2][img]https://i.postimg.cc/MKbrDyhn/20200828-173146.jpg[/img][/url]

Starting to look like a tender...the brass panel will slide back and off should truck service/replacement become necessary.. [url=https://postimg.cc/dksh1TCv][img]https://i.postimg.cc/NMTmd6fy/20200828-214819.jpg[/img][/url]

One advantage of the abnormally thick tender floor was the ease in which the ladder was assembled.Just[url=https://postimg.cc/Hc6sX2K6][img]https://i.postimg.cc/sxrQFHJC/20200829_202216.jpg[/img][/url] put it in the vise!

I fitted a piece of textured plastic to simulate a coal load .it is removable.  [url=https://postimg.cc/PC0m7NYM][img]https://i.postimg.cc/Pq52Pwq0/20200830-091126.jpg[/img][/url]

Just have to add the draw bar and the coupler abd she is done! Decals were a bit tricky!  [url=https://postimg.cc/hQfS2jtq][img]https://i.postimg.cc/C54zLnyd/20200902-213030.jpg[/img][/url]

Draw bar installed.   [url=https://postimg.cc/k6fQ90gM][img]https://i.postimg.cc/RhzX19rt/20200904-144856.jpg[/img][/url]

Went with a Kadee O scale coupler.Small compared to O gauge but they mesh.Might install the other Kadee in this Atlas O scale boxcar...[url=https://postimg.cc/5XXbmLCs][img]https://i.postimg.cc/g2DjmKkb/20200904-145049.jpg[/img][/url]

That's one of the (many) cool things about that old standby, the Kadee #805; they will "mesh" with pretty much any other type of coupler: Lionel "lobster claw", Scale Craft, Roundhouse, Austrian Atlas (as shown above), Walthers dummies, etc.  

Mark in Oregon (home of the Kadee coupler...)  

True!

Put diwn a loop of 0-_72 track and gave it a Try ...smoith running at low voltage...https://youtu.be/TRCyMD6TsEE

@mwb posted:

Understatement of the month award!

Kinda like that old cartoon where the guy opens a freight car "kit" and there is a block of wood inside!

Simon