Here is a few pics of the “Big Blow” I sent to get painted. I was going to paint it but just didn’t have the time to get to it before the Open House at the club. This guy does great work. All it need now is windows and crew.
HERE IS SOME PICS BEFORE PAINT
PAINTED CABOOSE
(POWERED) TURBINE UNIT WITH TURBINE REMOVED
ALL IT NEED’S IS GLASS & A CREW
HE EVEN INSTALLED THESE SMALL CONNECTIONS FOR CONSTANT LIGHTING FOR ALL UNITS & BOTH TENDERS.
WOW
Wow. [bow] I’d be afraid to run it.
8500–
That is one HUNKER of a locomotive-- UP Turbines and their 4-12-2’s just fascinate the heck out of me. I take it just the first unit is powered–seeing that the scale turbine has been removed from the other unit. Just a question–does it pull as much as it LOOKS like it does?
Seriously, that’s a BEAUTIFUL loco, and your friend did a spectacular paint job on it. Enjoy!!
Tom [bow]
BOTH units are powered. The front unit has 2 motors in it, the rear only a single motor because of the Turbine unit. The front unit in the one pic you can see the duel motors. The middle unit has a motor which connects to BOTH trucks. I wouldn’t buy a Turbine like that with only 1 powered unit. I added Kadees to it once at the club. I wanted to see if it ran ok before sending it to paint. It hauled 66 hoppers and 19 89" Tri-Level Enclosed Auto Racks up the grades and all around the layout without slipping a wheel. Both units are very heavy. And extreamly quiet also.
That is first class. Maybe I send everything to this Fella to be painted and retire the workbench lol.
That is fine workmanship.
I can almost hear the Roadmaster: What?! No Glass? No Crew?!
This guy charged me $515.00 for everything. Including constant lighting (which he had to drill small homes in the bottoms of each unit for wires) & installing all 6 bags of details that came with it (pic below). I wouldn’t have even considered it for that much, maybe double.
Definately 1st Class. Where did you get the connectors?
Hopefullyb you will send us pics of her on the tracks!!
Fergie
I have no idea, he bought and installed them. Pics will surely follow when it is put on the club layout. I am also going to give videos also.
Very nice
The connectors look like Miniatronics from the Walthers site anyway:
Did this train come as one set or was each individually purchased??? is it old or new???
It was bought as a complete unit. It never on a piece of track. I think the build date was 98. I could be wrong though, it is a newer model.
I want an N scale Big Blow so bad…But I don’t have the money for anything brass right now. They are so good lookin’…
It’s things like this that make me want to have an extra $10,000 to spend.[}:)] GAH!!
It really is a very nice looking piece of art.[:D] I myself would have left it as unpainted brass, but that’s just me. I like shiny things.
Tom,
You will love this one
I wish someone would make UP 80, the last turbine built
oh yes. HO or N?
Overland did issue a model of the coal turbine, #80, in HO scale. I saw one at my LHS in the mid nineties.
The B unit was huge, you’d need 36" radius curves to run it.
Overland did make a Coal Turbine #80
8500–
Thanks for the shots of the 4-12-2–that’s one really FASCINATING loco. I really admire the fact that you’re totally unafraid of going after brass, especially after hearing so many posts on this forum that brass is only for ‘collectors’ and sound and run like coffee-grinders. 'Taint so. Modelers like you and I–and some others-- who HAVE to buy brass and run them because it’s the only way we can get authentic locos for our respective prototypes know that when you get a good-running brass model, it’s going to run for years and years and if anything goes wrong, all we have to do is get out our screwdrivers and start ‘tinkering’ instead of sending it back to the mfr for a replacement.
Just wanted to let you know that I like your style!
Tom [:D]
Actually I don’t have one single bad running brass model! Yes I got a few which were bad, but now all run great because ALWAYS there were only little issues like a little play on certain places or other kind of alignment.
I assume that those many posts that brass models “run like coffee-grinders” come from people who never did own a brass model.