Frist time doing this so please bare with me. Brain tease, why back in either the 70’s or 80’s Model Railroader ran a article on how to modify a Mini Trix 2-10-0 to look like a Pennsy 2-10-0. I know I have the Magazine, have them all since 1973. The question is what years and issue was it. Can someone help me out.
Thank you
A search at PRR N Scale for “2-10-0” came up with 84 hits, and “2-10-0 Trix” had 24 hits. My hunch is this website will have more answers for Pennsy steam conversions you haven’t thought of yet – At least that’s why I’m a member.
Hello “Pacific,”
We haven’t had an article on the I1 Decapod, but Jim Kelly wrote one on converting the Minitrix 2-10-0 into an N1 2-10-2. Here’s the citation from our online magazine index, which you can reach by clicking on “Index of magazines” at the bottom of this page:
Building an N scale Pennsy 2-10-2
Model Railroader, October 1979 page 116
( 2-10-0, 2-10-2, “KELLY, JIM”, KITBASH, MINITRIX, PRR, CONSTRUCTION, N, MR )
If you go to the index and do a keyword search on “PRR 2-10-0,” “all magazines,” you’ll find the 2007 Railroad Model Craftsman article on building an N scale I1.
So long,
Andy
Isn’t the Trix N scale 2-10-0 already a PRR I1, complete with belpaire firebox? The one I had was, even though it had a different name on the tender. That tender might be a different story, IIRC. The 4-6-2 I had used the same boiler. I believe they also put aout an 0-6-0 with a belpaire, but I think it had cab issues.
The Minitrix 2-10-0 has a K4 boiler stuck onto a German prototype chassis. The stack is five scale feet behind the cylinders. To correct this, the boiler must be lengthened. The tender also has an unprototypical hole in the side for the tabs that hold the shell to the floor,
NTrak publishes The N Scale Steam Locomotive Information Book.which has a lot of valuable information on modifying N scale steam engines.
Interesting, I could have sworn the article in question was in MR. I guess I must be thinking about Jim Kelly’s article, I have that issue.
–Randy
Railroad Model Craftsman within the past couple of years did a three part article of modifying the Kato
2-8-2 into a Pennsy 2-10-0, must admit I was impressed with the intelligent approach to this extensive bash although I have no particular interest in N scale, gave me some ideas for similar S scale conversions.
Dave
The RMC article was in the Nov & Dec 2007 Issues. A number of different models were used to make the conversion.
Rick