Thanks  for all of the pointers and go to's, very helpful.

ok, thanks for the tip about Mantua. I will check that out.

I forgot to say the photo of the drover's caboose was taken in Libourn, mo in 1962, probably not long befor it's last days.

I do plan to kitbash some caboose/s with a Bachmann wooden (plastic) passenger car to build a drover's caboose.  The one I plan to build is on railnet picture.net by Steve Patterson. It's a prototype Cotton Belt drover's caboose pulled by a VO1000 diesel.  I was able to get the picture but it is also copyright protected....so I'm alittle spooked to post it.  This may have been the caboose my mom rode on...don't know for sure, but it would have been pulled by a Baldwin 2-6-0 (D3?) in your posted photo, or one like it.  Wouldn't that be a hoot if that caboose and the 340 mogul was the train she rode back then?

Thanks.

Wow thanks for all the help. Yep, that's the photo of the 340 in Malden I couldn't copy or print it.  Aslo, thanks for the tip about the Mogul in Pine Bluff Museum.

I may just go ahead and get an Alco 2-6-0 for now.  I've never tried kitbashing on a locomotive and as much as I would like to stay authenic I would probably mess it up.

...so,ok Bachmann we have some takers here including myself.....when can we expect to see delivery on a Baldwin D3 2-6-0 mogul?

Many thanks for the help. I'll check out Bachman's Alco 2-6-0. Close may have to count in this case.  I want to model a cotton belt short line (Wyatt portion) that hauled bales of cotton from Wyatt, MO to Malden, MO and connected up with the St. Louis & SW Railway or Mopac.  That Cotton Belt short line pull a few box cars and a drover's caboose that my mom and older sibblings rode on many times to see her folks in Lilbourn, Mo (close to Malden). I grew up there on a small cotton farm near Wyatt, the 2-6-0 was before my time but I remember the VO1000 ( I have the HO version of that) very well that replaced it. One track from Malden to Wyatt and on to Birds Point.  There was a turn table coming into Wyatt.

Thanks again.

Thanks. I should have noted the photo is located in the on-line book Cotton Belt Locomotives by Joesph Strapac, page 74.

Just curious if any HO scale models of the Bladwin D3 2-6-0 were ever manufactured, or can they be kitbashed from other models?

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I thought I could copy/print the photo but it must be protected in some way.  I goggeled it as "Cotton Belt Locomotive page 34" and the Locomotive 340 is at the bottom of page 74.

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New to the board here.  I've been trying to find a HO scale Baldwin D3 2-6-0.  I have a picture (1940's )of the protoype number 340 in Malden, Mo before it went t0 the scrap yard. I think it was a Cotton Belt short line unit that may have run from Bird's Pint , to Malden, MO.  I looked into what Backman produces but didn't find one.

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