If anyone has these locos could I please get a coupler (loco pilot coupler to rear tender coupler) length in inches? I have a wye that will only turn locos (no cars) and need to know if they’ll fit. Can’t find the length online anywhere. Also still looking for more Blueline or Powerhouse GN glacier green Mikados.
I’ve finally gotten all of my track laid and need to start expanding my roster. Thanks!
Actually you’d only need the wheelbase, not the full length of the engines…unless you mean one leg of the wye is so short the engines might not fit?? Even then, it would be only from say the front wheels to the back coupler or vice versa.
Stix, normally, yes, but this leg is going through a coved back drop corner into a room corner so I do need the length to the rear tender coupler to know if it’ll back into that tight 90 degree corner space. I’ve got 14" to the back drop cove and I think I could (maybe) fit 17.5" of loco in there. My fallback “default” road engines will be Mikados for the most part so no problem for those. I’m trying to get a cab forward and maybe the above post’s locos in there if it’s possible before I cut a tunnel portal into the back drop.
You would think the Bachmann 2-10-2’s specifications would be on the Bachmann website, but they aren’t. As I recall, the 2-10-2 is around 16 inches overall. Mine is packed away and not accessible at the moment, so my recollection is the best I can do.
I can’t help you with the other loco.
Edit:
On second thought, 16 inches doesn’t seem right. You should probably disregard that. I think that is the space I was planning to allow on an engine track, not the engine itself.
The Bachmann 2-10-2 is 13 1/4 coupler face to face. The Broadway Limited M1 4-8-2 with long haul doghouse tender is 15 1/2. The Bachmann heavy mountain 4-8-2 is 13 1/4 with long tender (coal) and 13 1/2 with vandy tender oil. All are with the drawbar in the longest hole position between engine and tender. Now an FEF or 4-8-4 is 16 to 17 inch Rivarissi or Bachmann. Hope this helps.
Bob
I was surprised that the BLI M1 was so long, I have the BLI UP Mt-73 4-8-2 with the Vandy tender and it measures 12 1/2" .
The tender alone is 7.5 inches. for the Mia and M1b.
Bob
I just dug one of mine out of storage and got exactly the same thing, also in the last drawbar position.
Great. Thanks for the additional confirmation. Looks like it’s a contender then.