Rare Erie

[PRRThomas11]

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[Conrail Quality]

 
I'm not sure what you mean by this. If it's rare, then by definition it must be hard to find. And if it's hard to find, you cannot locate it just by asking online. Searching through piles of junk at a train show is how you find rare stuff.

[Chris333]

Well if you find a N scale triplex, that would be rare! 

I find the only way to get nice Erie equipment in N scale is to build it myself.

[PRRThomas11]

Thats really good.

[Inder]

Chris,

How was the coal fed on  engine 355?

Do you have before and after shots?

[Chris333]

Inder,

It is a called a "camelback" you can see a guy on the tender deck with a shovel. The fire box door was under the rear awning. The model started as a Model Power 4-4-0 like this one:
http://www.hobbysmith.com/photos/Model%20Power/n_4_4_0_NP.gif

Then I moved the motor into the tender since it no longer would fit in the locomotive:

Added some details:


and added paint:

http://picasaweb.google.com/ErieChris333/Models/photo#5076403849532188386

The real 355:
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/el/loco/erie-s355abd.jpg

[PRRThomas11]

What did you use to make the cab and tha details? Did you use balsa wood or plastic? What about moving the motor, how did you do that? What kind of glue did you use? I'm getting interested now. Thats an amazing model!!

[Chris333]

To try and sum it all up. The boiler is a brass tube. The cab side are 2 layers of .005" brass sheet. The front and back of the cab are styrene. The wooton firebox was formed from .015" aluminum. Some details are from a Atlas 2-6-0 and the rest are RLW http://www.republiclocomotiveworks.com/ castings. I usually just use ACC for glue.

The stock motors flyworm was removed and I used NWSL  http://www.nwsl.com/  1.5mm shafts and universals to transfer motion from the tender. The shaft is supported by 2 bearing block from a old Atlas diesel.

I resized this photo till the drivers were the same size as the model and base all other dimensions off of it: