Scale Wild West 4-4-0 engines?

Great pictures.

Smr trains also made the Virginia and truckee 2-6-0 locomotives. Probably the closest to the wild west scale locomotives out there due to the prototype being operated in the wild west.

Imagine my pleasant surprise to find these plans published a few years before Lionel released their General sets, the cars were obviously based on these plans and they match up almost exactly. The plans are from a 1957 copy of Rolling Stock Manual of HO And O Gauge Car Plans. It’s a really neat book.

@StudeDude posted:

Imagine my pleasant surprise to find these plans published a few years before Lionel released their General sets, the cars were obviously based on these plans and they match up almost exactly. The plans are from a 1957 copy of Rolling Stock Manual of HO And O Gauge Car Plans. It’s a really neat book.

Kits for these cars were also produced by Robico - 4 different cars in all

@mwb posted:

Kits for these cars were also produced by Robico - 4 different cars in all

Wow thanks for the heads up on that, I will need to try to find some of those!

@StudeDude posted:

Wow thanks for the heads up on that, I will need to try to find some of those!

Confess that I have not seen any of these for quite a few years - seriously vintage kits that I believe also had pre-painted sides, and came with a pile of metal castings.

So after reading this, I decided to put my modeling skills to use.  I decided to try to model a scale 4-4-0.

I'm using the dimensions of a Bachmann 4-4-0 which is pretty close to scale - I measured the drive wheels and they matched a drawing I found of the same vintage engine.

I plan to kit-bash the frame of an MTH Railking 2-8-0 cutting up and repositioning the wheels as the wheels are pretty close to what I need (16mm HO = 29mm O) and the 2-8-0 ~30mm or so).  It will take some time to figure out how to do this, but there will be some cutting involved.

I just finished the Cab which took about 4 hours to do.

So here is what I'm basing the engine off of:

Here is the equivalent not-scale Lionel version:

Here are the pictures of the completed model of the cab:

Here is a loose comparison.  The Lionel Cab is 55mm long and the one above is 35mm.

This will be a slow process, but I will keep y'all up to date.  I plan to do the tender next as it will be pretty easy all things considered.

I'll keep everyone updated as I keep getting parts designed/modeled.  Once I finish, I will package up the model .stl files so they can be put in the modeling section of the forum.

Here are pics of the Lionel Brass hybrid  4-4-0 compared to MTH 4-4-0

All pics by me from my collection.

Those are great pictures for comparison!