I have restored my 35 yr old Tyco 4-6-2 to operation. It is maked to the Union Pacific road number 4073. I never cared about it as a kid but now I am starting to think more like a protoyper if that is a word.
Just wanted to know if my loco wheel configuration I got as part of a set as a kid is correct for the UP.
Ill start to look into how accurate the model is, which I dont expect much, but will run it for old time sake anyway.
Keith
I should have looked a bit before posting, this is a modern version, http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mantua-349006-HO-4-6-2-Pacific-w-Long-Haul-Tender-4073-Canadian-Pacific-Engine-/300850617003?_trksid=p4340.l3484
and I see the same one under diff road names on ebay. So I guess the road number is not particularly accurate
UP rostered a systems total of 118 light Pacifics and 91 heavy Pacifics. Revelent numbers for your purposes would be light Pacific 2860-2909 & 2800-2859 for heavy of which 14 received two tone grey paint or a brief period towards the end of their careers. Your wheel arraigment is correct, but not the model as a whole, this best represents a heavy but requires a infusion of UP specific details. Much easier to model and more accurate would be the surplus USRA light Pacifics of which UP aquired several in the twenties with broken frames at a bargin basement price and retained in service until the end of steam operations abit with much rebuilding/upgrading which largly erased all traces of their linnage, one even aquired the oversized tender from a war baby ex C&O 2-8-8-2 when these went to scrap in 1947!
I have one of these USRA examples in my collection, kitbashed in early eighties from a Model Power pacific the only affordable/obtainable example at the time, mine is detailed to represent a late in life appeareance and features that aforementioned ex C&O tender and signiture “Sweeny” oversized stack.
You probably knew this, 4000 class numbers were occupied by the 4-8-8-4 big boys.
Hope this helps
Dave
The Tyco 4-6-2 is modeled after a B&O engine:
The tender is different, but note the little box thingy below the sand dome.
That noted, it’s your railroad. My Tyco 4-6-2 is lettered for Western Minnesota (fictional). I changed it a bit, adding a slope front cab and a Belpaire firebox. Removing the boxes was too intimidating to try. It’s a nice looking loco. If you’re a Belpaire kinda person.
Ed
It’s a stretch, but could make a passable 2800 series heavy, at the bare minium it would require removal/replacement of the turrent manifold, pilot mounted air pumps and shield and relocation and replacement to duel air pumps under the right running board and a BL feedwater heater under the left, If the coffin system if chosen, it would require the smokebox to be extended and the Elesco would be an easy install for either configuration , running board ladders would be removed and installation of a Pyle non visor headlight with UP number shield centered on the smokebox front, bell placement could be atop the smokebox front or on the boiler, train number indicator boards are mandatory. One could accept the too great a boiler diameter girth and lack of noticable boiler taper or locate a long out of production Cary replacement boiler that’s much closer to being correct. The tender would require replacement. Ok, who’s up to the challenge?
Dave
Mantua did make steps for the front pilot that didn’t include the “box”. Not sure if new owner Model Power still sells parts, but in the old days I replaced the pilot assembly very easily. Think it cost $3-4.