While flipping threw a book on baldwin locos one caut my attention, a 0-6-6. The caption said they took an old shay frame centered the boiler and added a set of drivers to the front, mounted on a pin. and a passanger truck in the back. It was intened for passinger trafic. Any recomendations on how to build this in F scale.
Ok, this sounds like a Single Fairlie Locomotive. You would need some form of 0-6-0 chassis to start with and then build your 6 wheel bogie. The main frames can be made of ply covered with ABS. Have a look here: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sheila.capella/cabbage/welcome.html Look at the section marked Kitchen Sink Engineering. I make all my own models myself, have fun and welcome to the wonderful world of scratch building!!! regards ralph
alternatively use shay components on an LGB chassis with coach truck at rear tho the parts could prove expensive
For the chassis I was goong to fab one out of steel plating, (the scrap bin at work is over flowing) I thought this so this way it would have a good weightand have proper grip to the rail. I found two motor blocks and I don’t know which one to use, the LGB or the Bachman block, which one would you recomend?
Hia buddy. What locomotive did the LGB and Bachmann motor block come from?
What’s up.
I found both on ebay for dirt and was woundering which to buy, but its of little use becouse I lost where they were and then left for a week, (in hence I need an acount on there so I can hit the “watch this item” button and recive emails about them) don’t you LOVE techo-nology, becouse it despises me.[banghead] Oh and to top it off I crushed my thumb chooping wood.
Progress, An old bach. big hauler provides the running works, now all I kneed is a passanger truck, and a lot of work.
Can you post a pic of the original 0-6-6?
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Ill try. Ok, first find the page in that book…
…then take a picture of it…
…then somehow load the thing in here.
Like this
click on picture to enlarge
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There is a survivng 0-6-4 at The Henry Ford Museum
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Thats a Mason Bogie built by the William Mason Co., not a Baldwin, but it does match the description given in the title post.
Heres a pic of the Torch Lake RR 0-6-4 (also Mason built) preserved at the H. Ford Museum
if your interested in building a Mason, heres everything you’ll ever need to know.
Click here and open the 2002 Mason class links:
http://www.mylargescale.com/articles/masterclass/
This is a list of finished models so far:
http://www.mylargescale.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=24556
I’m planning to build a Mason using a Lionel 0-6-0 as a base. This class is the best guideline to help.
vsmith Yeah, I couldn’t find a Baldwin yet…but I’m still looking!
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In my experience most Single Fairlies (patent) are smaller than the versions made by Mason (no patent). 0-6-4 is a “standard” configuration for the Irish GSR at Inchcore which I think were the largest number built in the (then) United Kingdom (ie before partion). I would recommend you look at the Kitson Meyer type of locomotive 0-6-6-0 for your basic design calculations -I am afraid I cannot find the Baldwin locomotive that you are describing. The nearest thing that I have to it is the (in)famous CYCLOPS of the GWR -but that was never a carriage hauling loco. But, it is definately on the list of locos to build…
regards
ralph
Thanks guys, Thats the exat picture I saw. Whoever buit that in an ALCo. book must have been confused. Why Lionel? I thought it was the wrong guage.