I’m trying to find who makes DRGW narrow guage mikadoes, I know the model exists, just who makes it?
The mikes, once converted to standard guage, will make perfect additions to the motive roster of the Apple Valley Road.
thank you for your help- littemon
P.S. check out “Apple Valley Road” in the layouts and layout building section, I’d like( no, NEED!) your opinion!
Except for brass imports, I’m not aware of any HOn3 Mikadoes. But given the number of standard gauge Mikadoes available, why do you want to do this?
Just curious
Paul
Didn’t MDC make narrow guage mikado kits some years back?
I’m curious also. Converting an HOn3 steam loco to standard gauge seems a lot more trouble than it is worth. You may want to consider modifying a standard gauge HO mikado to meet your needs. Bachmann, Athearn, IHC, BLI all produce mikados of varying appearances.
Dale B.
They make Consolidations and Shays in HOn3, I checked my Walthers catalogs from 76, 86, and 92 - no Mikadoes.
Enjoy
Paul
I want to convert the mikes to standard guage because of their small size and the “cool factor” of it especially the outside frames and oversized snowplows.
thanks any way, this might be a one way road to a lot of broken mikadoes.
thanks- Littemon
“I want to convert the mikes to standard guage because of their small size and the “cool factor” of it especially the outside frames and oversized snowplows.”
Note that the outside frame design is probably unique to narrow gauge (at least I’ve never seen a standard gauge engine thus designed). As narrow gauge locomotives got bigger they could become unstable with their narrow frames, so moving the frames outboard of the drivers helped prevent the things from tipping over. If you regauged a narrow gauge engine to standard, you’d end up with the drivers back outside the frame again.
The D&RGW’s last class of outside frame mikes, the K-37s, started as standard gauge 2-8-0s of class C-41. The change to 3-foot gauge moved the drivers inside the frames. The K-36 class were built new as narrow gauge engines but likewise were basically similar to a standard gauge consolidation design.
Conversion kits have been available for the MDC outside frame consolidation, but no US prototype outside frame mikes have been offerred in plastic. I do hear that Broadway Limited will produce On30 versions of the D&RGW classes K-27 and K-28.