This is a Whimsy project I posted a year ago or so. I finally started working on it again. It is based upon a Varney project many years ago. I am using a HO Mantua 0-6-0T, parts from PSC, Yardbird Trains and a Bachmann oil tender from an older 0-6-0 loco.
The loco as all driver pickups, and all tender wheel pickups. A DZ125 decoder in the loco. Just installed real very thin glass from Clover House in the loco windows frames. Still a lot of detail work is needed.
Rich
Looks interesting! How are those pickups working out for you? I’ve always dreaded using any engine with only a couple pickups spaced close together because of stalling. Do you have right(left) rail pickup on both the engine AND tender, or the more common engine right, tender left?
The pickups are working very well. Look at one of the photos, you can see two small diameter wires between the loco and tender. Those would simulate the steam pipe to heat the oil and the other to deliver the warmed oil to the loco. Pickups both rails. As I said in the first message, all tender wheels pickup both sides. Look at the one truck photo. I got the idea from Harold M who is now posting here about scale 55n3 I think it is.
The loco with the original two drive pickup on the left side was so so. I did not like the the two driver pickup so I designed my own from similar ideas I have seen on the 'Net. That helped quite a lot. Adding the tender is the best improvement.
Rich
Rich:
That is just clever as all get-out! [bow] And since historically, the first ‘cab-forward’ was a little narrow-guage 4-4-0 built by the North Pacific Coast railroad (which inspired the basic “Idea” for the SP locos), you’re really not as ‘fanciful’ as some others might think.
VERY neat looking little loco!
Tom [:D]
For those not familiar with the loco he mentions, go to the below link.
http://www.ironhorse129.com/Projects/Engines/NPC_21/NPC_No21.htm
Rich
Way to get into the spirit of model railroading.
Me likee! Very clever Rich. I’ve got a Roundhouse 0-6-0 saddle tanker that runs better in reverse than forward. Ya got me thinkin’…
Lou