PRR 4-6-2 Steam engine parts list

Model Railroader Prototype information for the modeler
1

I recently purchased an old PRR 4-6-2 engine and realized some of the side piping may be missing.

Is there a web site where I can look up a parts list for what might be missing?

Greg

2

Many different manufactures have made this model. Do you have any clue to the brand?? Is it Bowser, Bachmann? Several brass importers also sold the K4 over the years. Give us a clue.

CZ

3

Greg

If it is just piping you will probably have to bend and solder/ glue yourself. Check Bowser/ Cary and Greenway for special parts like air pumps and reverser.

Pete

4

I beleive it might have been made in Japan.

5

The other possibility is that it’s a generic model that happens to be lettered for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Most later Pennsy steam locos had a very distinctive “square” fire box area of the boiler. Can you post a picture?

6

For three pages of PRR K-4 plans and photos, including good views of the fittings and plumbing on both sides, check Model Railroader Cyclopedia, Volume 1; Steam Locomotives. It’s plan 78, starting on page 139.

In addition to that plan, and a whole bunch of others, there’s a longish chapter that explains what all that plumbing (and the rest of the fittings of a steam locomotive) do for a living.

Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)

7

Bowser has discontinued their steam locomotive kits but parts and superdetailing sets may still be available. With some tinkering even a brass import could be detailed using Bowser and/or Cal-Scale parts. Try here

http://bowser-trains.com/holocos/k4/k4.htm

http://www.bowser-trains.com/Main%20HO.htm

http://bowser-trains.com/hoother/calscale/calscale.htm

Dave Nelson