Scale Craft 2-8-2 Mikado

 "And plenty of Tinplate to either sell or bash."

I'll go start the popcorn........

Steamer posted:

 "And plenty of Tinplate to either sell or bash."

 

 

I'll go start the popcorn........

I seem to cause you to go through a fair bit of popcorn...

I will look.  They are common castings - I would just make your own lead truck.  I think the rear is a version of the Hodges, but not sure.

I have two - one is set up for either a 2-10-2 or a 4-8-2.  The other is sort of stock but can be set up as a Pacific.

As to the tender - I am not that avid a collector, so no Scale Craft Mike tender will ever darken my doorstop.

Hello Dennis 

The SC Mikado was the last of the prewar engines (1941)..which could make it the hardest one to find ..which could be a good thing  ....  arguably the least attractive .... SC seemed very inconsistent with it scale and detail of their engines ....  K4   17/64ths,   very nice   Hudson 1/4" earliest model quite nice ..later ones so so ,   SP Mountain  really good   , SP Pacific great .. Both big engines .  and then the Mike ...  ... all that cast piping crude ..and the tender a cast block .....SC was going through the ups and downs   beginning with Smith ... then helped by Elliott Donnelley ..then taken over by Elliott Donnelley....     please see link to more info and photos of the SC Mike ..in all it's glory    at 

http://www.modeltrainjournal.c...hilit=mikado#p324749

Well, there you are with that trailing truck.  It is a Delta, identical to the SP Mountain and Pacific.  If you cannot find one, look me up.

Oops.  I only have two photos.  A screwdriver and fifteen minutes in the sunlight should enable the Pacific and Mountain versions, along with an unusual tender off of an ATSF Mallet.  Anyway, here are two low resolution photos:

Those are two different tenders - one scratch, the other MG.  Also a note on boiler tapers:  My ATSF Steam book shows most Mikes, Mountains, and 2-10-2s with considerably more boiler taper.  I found photos of each type showing very slight tapers, so I am getting away with these models.  That's my story, and I am sticking with it.

I guess that is not so unusual - I am convinced that the PRR used two different tapers on the M1 Mountains.  When I do my M1, it will be with the more pleasing and gradual early taper, and an eight axle tender.

The Weaver M1's do seem to have a really pronounced tapered section, I agree.  Those look great Bob. Here are a couple of more shots of the SC Mike.  And the brass Alco from the same lot.  Am I right in thinking that's a Kemtron Alco down there? Or did CLW do one also?

Looks like a Alco RS1. Kemtron only did the RS3 and RSD with 6 wheel trucks. Central Loco Works offered drives as well as All Nation for those locomotives.  That looks like a Locomotive Workshop unit, he used white metal for the ends as well as other details. His photo etchings weren't as nice as the Kemtron's but once painted made a respectable looking unit.

Cool, Thanks for the info guys!  I didn't show them, but there are power trucks for the Alco also so I guess I'll see  if there is enough to put it back together.  I have a poorly built Kemtron GP7 as well that needs a lot of love.  Someday...

I took some time this evening to get some better photos.  Found a note to myself in the 2-10-2 that said it ran like a watch in 2008.  I remembered setting these two up to convert with two screws each, but that was apparently not the case - the cylinders, valve gear and hangers, and main rods go back and forth between the Mountain and 2-10-2, and the rear mount on the Pacific mechanism is four screws instead of one - there is a spacer for the Mike frame that needs to come out.  so a 15 minute photo session took 45 minutes.  I needed to do it - my original photos were very low resolution.  Herewith the conversions, and an additional Mike photo with the interesting Mallet tender:Sorry about the stubbed toe on that tender.  You cannot tell, but I figured the running boards were too narrow, so each casting has an additional 1/16" added to all running boards.

Thanks Bob!

The Die cast ends on this RS1 could either be a a Locomotive workshop kit or that English guy Gilmaur kit.

http://www.gilmaur.com/

http://www.gilmaur.com/contacts.htm

Dennis, looking at your first photo... TWO worm gears?  Are both of the last two axles geared??  Thanks!

Hi Ted, no one the rear is the coil spring drive or coupling. It looks sort of like a gear but it is not. Only a single gear drive. It runs quite, just shiwed up last night.

I’ll look at the RS1 morse closely tonight ans maybe we can figure it out. 

prrhorseshoecurve posted:

The Die cast ends on this RS1 could either be a a Locomotive workshop kit or that English guy Gilmaur kit.

http://www.gilmaur.com/

http://www.gilmaur.com/contacts.htm

It’s a Locomotive Workshop. I have one on my workbench right now. 

Has the parts to make it into an End can switcher as well. Photo etch is a bit rough in spots. 

Winner winner Chicken dinner!  That is it.  My drive units are Central Loco Works.  Are these any good to keep and use?  I'm guessing my frame is something else?

Dennis Holler posted:

Winner winner Chicken dinner!  That is it.  My drive units are Central Loco Works.  Are these any good to keep and use?  I'm guessing my frame is something else?

The frame is the stock LW. They came blank and need to be cut for the chosen drive. Mine had truck side frames but no trucks. 

Good score; I almost bid on that lot. Glad to see it went to someone more "worthy"... 

Mark in Oregon

PS: if you don't need that Flyer 307...  ...