scratch built steam locomotive turn into a 0-10-0

[ryeguyisme]

This locomotive was bought marked in sleepy valley marking, I tried doing some research to see who might be the original owner and failed. The pictures above shows the engine plopped on a new old stock varney chassis because the original sprung chassis disintegrated due to age. I posted a topic on this forum about converting a brass engine to run on a spectrum chassis and the topic of this came up whether to keep it an 8 driving wheeled switcher or consolidation or turn it into a full blown heavy switcher 0-10-0

The boiler and tender were SCRATCHBUILT, and I was so impressed by it's character I purcased it for about $100

I opted to use a spectrum decapod chassis just because its simpler that way.

I took the boiler and the vanderbilt tender it came in and tried stripping the paint off as best I could. I used acetone and paint thinner and it wouldn't come off, it only loosened it up.

So I took a rotary tool with a fine metal brush attachment and used that to clean it up and it came out pretty good, the engine had alot of paint gunked on it and the inside of it had lead weights, a prewar lightbulb and tons of dusty buildup.






And then I prepped the decapod chassis to fit the new boiler and eliminate shorts as well as taking out the pilot and shortening it:



Then I was looking at comparisons and different tenders to use:

[J3a-614]

Rye, with that 2-10-0 mechanism under it, your 0-10-0 looks to my eyes a lot like the version that the C&O had:

http://daveayers.com/Modeling/images/CnO_0-10-0.jpg

http://www.northamericanrails.com/yahoo_site_admin1/assets/images/C__O_0-10-0_140_-_Copy.129115808_large.jpg

http://cohs.org/repository/Archives/cohs/web/cohs-23892.jpg

http://cohs.org/repository/Archives/cohs/web/cohs-29790.jpg

For comparison and inspiration, some other 0-10-0s:

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern (New York Central predecessor):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lake_Shore_%26_Michigan_Southern_0-10-0_Decapod_locomotive_4598_(Howden,_Boys%27_Book_of_Locomotives,_1907).jpg

Duluth Missabe & Northern/Duluth Missabe & Iron Range:

http://www.brasstrains.com/Classic/Product/Detail/036663/HO-Brass-PSC-Duluth-Missabe-Northern-DM-N-S-6-0-10-0-90-with-Booster

C&O model; this page comes up in a greatly enlarged version on my computer; it's so enlarged, you don't know there is a large collection of photos to the right, and that you have to scroll over to see them:

http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/7554221

Have fun.

[Desertdweller]

I think you got a good deal for $100.

Congratulations for saving this old girl by taking this project on.  It seems like few people are willing to tackle a project of this type anymore, although it looks pretty straightforward.

I guess it just depends on whether you want to wind up with a free-lanced loco or a model of a specific prototype.  Either way, you are going to wind up with a nice model.

Les

[electrical whiz kid]

An 0-10-0...Must have been a real bear on that yard trackage without ponies. to guide 'er through the turnouts..
Rich

[jonathan]

I like it alot! (sic)

Just an opinion... I think whatever tender you choose, I would lose the doghouse.  Don't know why.  I think it looks better without one.  In fact, the original vandy tender, may be a bit of a basket case, but with some work, it might look the best.

Great stuff!  Nothing like a loco project to stir the fun juices.

Thanks for sharing.

Regards,

Jonathan

[J3a-614]

Electrical Whiz Kid is right about that long wheelbase being hard on the sharp curvature of most rail yards; that's why 0-10-0s were rather rare.  C&O had only fifteen of them, compared with scores of 0-8-0s, including some built as late as 1948.  

Jonathan likely knows the B&O had two (class U), both rebuilds of Big Six 2-10-2s; the machinery was from the former road engines, while the boilers were new (the original boilers, and a lot of other parts, went into a pair of 4-8-2s).

http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/bo950s.jpg

http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/bo950sa.jpg

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/bo/bo-s951o.jpg

http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/bo951sa.jpg

Where the boilers went:

http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/bo5501s.jpg

http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/bo5501sa.jpg

I would also agree with Jonathan about taking off the doghouse on the tank; that's something you normally wouldn't see on a switcher.  Those shelters were installed to provide a seat for a head-end brakeman.  No head-end brakemen on a switcher, or at least not brakemen (or conductors) having the time to sit down for any extended time!  On the other hand, Rye's tender booster would be right at home on such an engine in slow speed hump service, as would be the cut-in coal bunker (for rearward visibility) on his DM&IR tank.

Should be an interesting loco when it's done.

[pdleth]

Keep the tender that has the booster and add a stake for it Switch the truck to have the booster in the rear and you'll have a B&m mud sucker for sure

[J3a-614]

Always fascinating to find out about a locomotive I didn't know about, in this case Flory's IC 0-10-0s:

A page on IC predecessor Alabama & Vicksburg; those Baldwin 0-10-0s look to have been the largest power on the road--and the other engines are good lookers, even if not so large:

http://www.msrailroads.com/A&V.htm

What looks like one of the former A&V engines in later years, with modifications by the IC; interesting, these engines apparently had Young valve gear.  This was a version of Walschearts that used linkages and cross shafting to drive the gear, rather than using eccentrics.

http://transport.castlegraphics.com/displayimage.php?album=34&pos=16

Another former A&V engine; this is one looks like one of the converted 2-10-2s:

http://transport.castlegraphics.com/displayimage.php?album=34&pos=17

Included simply because it was so fascinating--a general link to the page with those IC engines.  Looks like the site may be worth some explorations later--wonder what other roads are on it:

http://transport.castlegraphics.com/thumbnails.php?album=34

From another source:

http://www.yesteryeardepot.com/IC3602.JPG

http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr0001/ic3605.jpg

More IC steam:

http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr1331.htm

NYC variation again; check out the bay windows on the cab, something I though dated to diesel days:

http://www.forecyte.com/images/nyc7190.jpg

http://www.railarchive.net/nyccollection/nyc7190_tdr.htm

http://www.railarchive.net/nyccollection/index.html

Have fun.

[J3a-614]

Thanks, Flory, you've got to check out a new post I just put up, in the General Discussion board.  I've been running into a lot of old-time photo collections lately, and I think you and some others will be mighty interested in them.

Go have fun!

[ryeguyisme]

Keep the tender that has the booster and add a stake for it Switch the truck to have the booster in the rear and you'll have a B&m mud sucker for sure

Mudsuckers were 2-10-2's which I plan on owning one with a coffin feedwater heater someday, I've actually handle one before at my local brass dealer The Caboose:










And B&M also had a 0-8-0 with franklin boosters as both tender trucks



hoping to buy some of these in brass someday or do some kitbashing with them in mind 

[chucknlead]

Beautiful work!