I really like the Bachman 0-4-2 in On30. Does anyone know of an HO version is, or was ever in production? If not are there any suggestions on kitbashing one? Thanks for the help.
An 0-4-2 industrial switcher in HO would be a SMALL engine. Your best bet is a major kitbash of one of the B&O Docksiders. Right now, the best one available is the Bowser version, with the full valve gear kit. I’d only use the frame, motor, and valve gear, scratchbuild a new boiler out of 1/2" OD (or smaller) PVC pipe, and add a Precision Scale trailing truck and cab. I’d use Bowser & cal-Scale for the other details, as well as lots of piping (little engines like this need a lot of character!)
I would tend to think a 2-4-0 would be more common than an 0-4-2 and any 2-4-2 or 4-4-2 could be converted. The Bowser PRR 4-4-2 has been converted to many other engines over the years due to the fact the boiler is nearly solid metal. IT is worth considering.
Back in the 1960’s Athearn made a 0-4-2,it was nicknamed the “Little Monster” .I also have a HOn30 O-4-2 Imade from a kit. Joe G.
After thinking about it, if I can’t aquire one that is powered, I’ll kitbash/scratchbuild on that is unpowered, weather it extreamly heavily, and set it among some weeds outside my roundhouse. I think that would make an interesting scene. To add to the scene I can make it look like it was stripped of everything that could have been useful on another locomotive. I also think a powered one would look good shuffling cars at the tiny ore mine that I’m working on.
Jason,
If you’re going to kitbash/scratchbuild, you may want to review some of the 6 articles cited by a keyword search at the Index of Magazines:
http://index.mrmag.com/tm.exe?opt=S&cmdtext=0-4-2&MAG=ANY
It would appear you have a choice between a Vulcan and a Baldwin. Good luck.
Bob
NMRA Life 0543
The Athearn 0-4-2T was taken from a set of drawings by Linn Westcott in an old Model Railroader. There were also brass versions of that same locomotive.
The funny thing: Westcott just for fun had included in the drawing an idea he had for a model railroad herald. It was totally imaginary but both Athearn at one of the two brass importers included his lettering on their models thinking it was authentic!
The museum in North Freedom WI used to have a 2-4-2T that was a little like the Dockside with pilot and trailing wheels. Years later the Crab Orchard and Egyptian Railroad in Illinois bought that engine, removed the tank from the boiler and equipped it with a real tender and put it to work hauling mainline freight! Including piggyback trains! This is in the 1970s. I cannot recall who the politician was who borrowed that tiny locomotive for a campaign train.
The 0-4-0 and 0-6-0Ts made by Mantua would lend themselves to adding a trailing wheel and it could be a fun project.
Dave Nelson
Jason,
Some of the components of Kemtron’s HOn3 “Teakettle” 0-4-0 saddletank still survive in Precision Scale Co., Inc.'s HO and HOn3 Steam Locomotive Catalog # 3. For example, HO-31154 early wood cab, 31155 cab floor with tanks, 31132 fuel bunker, 31420 saddletank smokebox with stack base, and I think, 31186 HOn3 cylinder block, plus of course, bell, whistle, domes and pilot. The kit had a zamac frame and a Lindsay motor, so you would have to scratch build a frame and boiler wrapper and find suitable drivers (Greenway Products ?). Just a thought. One might be advertised on eBay.
Bob
NMRA Life 0543
Honest, honey, I really WAS at the political rally. No, I didn’t get any pictures of the candidate; I ran out of film. But you should see the photo I did get !
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Did someone mention an 0-4-2?
Made by Orenstein & Koppel around 1900.
Regards
Ed
I know one person said it would be a major kit bash to make a 0-4-2, but in truth, you could get a model power )-4-0 tank or tender engine, and put on a trailing truck from an odd source, screw it on and, WALA, you now have an 0-4-2. A person on flickr used parts from an old athearn 2-8-2, and now has a 2-4-2T, and thanks to him, I’m going to make my self a 2-4-2T.
The politician would be former Illinois governor Jim Thompson. But I think his campaign train used CO&E’s 2-8-0.
It looks to me that the rear axle on the 0-6-0T is set a little too far back for a trailing truck to make sense–perhaps a lead truck instead? Or maybe the fuel bunker could be enlarged rearward–then a trailing truck might look more “right”.
Ed