this is my first switcher and I paid $17
wow oooooo eeeeeeeee
check this thing out its missing the valve gear
cant wait to strip her
I know I paid a lot
K
Budliner - Looks like it might be a Ken Kidder item from around 40-45 years ago. Based largely on Japanese tankengines, these imports were widely available from the mid 1950’s until perhaps 1970 in the early days of brass in America and served as an introduction to modestly price brass engines to many of us. Incidentally, IMP did almost precisely the same loco, which they called “Little Jimmy” and which was supposedly made out of zamac rather than brass, way back in 1954.
Odds are, at $17, you paid close to the price this item originally sold for!
CNJ831
I’d agree its almost certainly a Ken Kidder 50s era Japanese import.
Just a couple of things …
… it isn’t saddle tank - its a side tank. A saddle tank is where the water tank is wrapped over the boiler.
… you say it has the valve gear missing. Its not quite clear from your pics what’s there and waht isn’t but I’m not sure it does have anything missing (unless its the connecting rods). Several of the ones I’ve seen for sale never had outside valve gear anyway, and I’m not sure there ever was an actual prototype.
You paid such a lot for it you better take it back and get a refund[;)][:P]
ah not a saddle
I get some great info on this site thanks for giving me info
when I get it in the mail I will get a better shot of the rods
0-6-0 sounds like it may have had some power to it
did they ever use a tender
I will try to search for side tank
ken kidder is funny sometimes they get a good price and somethimes they sell cheap
look a few more shots
K
Most (but not all) tank engines run without a tender - that’s the whole point they can run just as well in both directions and don’t need turning.
Looking at the pics it looks like the connecting rods are missing, but that it never had any outside valve gear. Fortunately in a model loco the conn rods are merely cosmetic, at least the side rods (which are functional) appear intact.
Ah, the elation of your first…I just aquired a 0-6-0T kit from New Zeland Finescale, with a new pilot and minor domestication changes it becomes a standard Baldwin model!! Can’t say I paid seventeen dollars for the priviledge of ownership however, but it is the only one in S available… I have one similar by Lambert…I purchased it directly from the factory, then located within walking distance of my residence for the pricely sum of $49.00 in the late seventies… Congrats, now that you have unleashed the gods, more will follow Dave
Your loco may have been imported by Ken Kidder, but it was built by Kawai, a storefront supplier in Tokyo. I bought one just like it (except for the headlight) from their shop in 1964.
I’m not aware that it has any known prototype - Kawai was noted for producing rather generic models, properly representing Japanese practice but not a match for a real locomotive. Originally, it had piston rods, crossheads and main rods which appear to have vanished from yours. In spite of the presence of air tanks, it also came without an air pump - an oversight I’ve rectified on mine.
Theoretically, that loco, with that layout of cylinders, would have had valve chambers in the cylinder saddle and Stephenson valve gear located entirely within the frame. Hence, no visible valve gear.
Incidentally, welcome to the wonderful world of HOj. Your model is 1:80 scale and represents a 42" gauge prototype - sort of.
Chuck
hey tkt
is it taboo to run other scale
sofar 00 hoj and a few on3 all run on my track
people run if its not there HO
thats a new one for me hoj
42 gauge thanks you gave me more clues to this great little swicher’s life
K-
I cant fix my citco sign >