N-Scale 4-6-0 Ten Wheeler

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Not, by any means, a project I am ready to dive into, but one which I think I may face:

For my era of my railroad of interest, the 4-6-0 Ten Wheeler was the predominate locomotive (Brooks, Rome, Baldwin, Rogers and Cooke). In N-Scale, there is not one 4-6-0 manufactured.

Has anyone built a shell and extended a frame, beginning with, say, an 0-6-0, or a Mogul to convert one of those into a Ten Wheeler?

Crews

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Bachmann/Graham Farish do loads of locomotives in UK guise of 4-6-0’s:

http://www.grahamfarish.co.uk/prod.php4?prod_selected=farish&prod=2

You’ll obviously need to source a shell elsewhere, but just a thought :slight_smile:

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And a good thought at that.

I took a look and the 4-6-0’s there, and they are closest to the A. Cooke wheel arrangement with the even axle spacing. I think I would have better luck turning a Mogul into a Baldwin.

I’m not sure this is a project I am up to unless someone else has gone before me in such a task. It is going to be difficult (if possible) to adjust driver sizes, not to mention building a shell that I would be happy with—the hands are able, but the eyes just may not be up to the task anymore.

Well, I never have been much a rivet counter, so I may just run what I can find.

Crews

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There a couple of problems with ‘converting’ a 2-6-0 or 0-6-0 into a 4-6-0:

  • Pilot truck - you need to move the cylinders forward to make room for rear pilot wheels. Lots of work here. Maybe removing the front driver of a 2-8-0 will work…
  • Cylinders/Drivers - the 4-6-0 spanned the saturated steam(slide valves) and piston valve eras. In fact, many 4-6-0’s were upgraded with new boilers and piston valves. Depending on era, you might be looking at two different chassis for kit-bashing.

Myself, I would wait until someone(like Spectrum) reduces their HO offering to N scale…

Jim Bernier

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I agree.

My first hint was in not finding anyone else who has done it on the various groups I have searched.

Even if I thought I could work out comprimises and create something close enough to be acceptable and pleasing to me, I do not need only one. Doing it once, maybe; repeating it multiple times would suck the fun right out of it.

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