Bullfrog Goldfield #12

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Been working on modifying a Bachmann 4-6-0 to resemble Bullfrog Goldfield #12. It consists of a re-wired Bachmann Vanderbilt tender attached to a Bachmann 63 inch driver chassis with the superstructure coming from the Bachmann low boiler 4-6-0. The Vanderbilt tender is designed to run behind their 2-8-0 and hooking it up the the 4-6-0 leads to a dead short. It has a Loksound Decoder and speaker inside the tender, which wasn’t that easy to put inside there. For those that are not familiar with completely obscure pre-WW1 Nevada mining railroads the Bullfrog Goldfield RR ran from Goldfield to Rhyolite, Nevada. Now I have an engine to pull my Alkali Express.

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Nevin:

I LIKE!! Good kit-bash–Roundhouse used to have a Vandy that it sold with their “Harriman” 4-6-0 and 2-8-0 kits way back when, that was just a tad shorter, but the Bachmann looks really good. I know you’ve been modeling the T&T–or at least you were. Any photos of those locos?

Nice work. [tup]

Tom

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After I weather it and dull it down, a bit it will look better. I’m still modeling the T&T. The T&T gained control of the BG RR after the LV&T was shut down by the Federal Government during WW1. Here is a pic of T&T #9.