Scratchbuilding Steam Locomotives

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Hi,

I’m looking for suppliers of N scale part for steam locomotives for scratchbuilding. I’m wanting to obtain a 4-6-0 in N scale but nobody offers it. Any suggestions would help.

Thanks,

Marv

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Any thing in the big Walther’s N scale catalog?

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Here is the link to the advice I received: Ten Wheeler

If you find a way, let me know.

Crews

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By the way, Marv, we are modeling the same era, same scale, and the same line (they meet in Sierra Blanca). I’m working on plans for the Texas & Pacific, 1903 (ish), with Forth Worth as the focus.

Crews

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If you are really into it, there are ways to kit bash them. I used a Grahm Farish mechanism to build this MoPac Ten wheeler. The shell is a kit bashed Atlas/Rivarossi light Pacific.

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Here is another way I did it.

This mechanism came from a Micro Ace Pacific where the motor end was cut off. The motor is in the tender with a drive shaft forward. The shell is from a Bachmann Consolidation.

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This is my most recent attempt.

I used an old Trix Pacific mechanism to build an SP 4-6-0. I had to do a lot of modifications to the frame to mount a new motor forward enough to fit under the shell I kit bashed from various other shells.

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Thank you for the suggestions. I’ve been thinking kitbashing would be what I needed to do.

Crew,

I’m working up plans to build the Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix line. It runs from Ash Fork AZ to Phoenix, through some of the most beatiful lanscape around. Having said that I can’t begin to do justice to the line havings less than 40 linear feet to work in. I will get the high points in.

Happy modelling,

Marv

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Russstraw:

This and the two which follow are excellent and would more than satisfy my own expectations-- very nice work.

I am so caught up in the historical research for track planning that such an attempt seems (and may be) years away, but your work is so good, I am saving the page to my disk for future reference. Thank you.

Rolling Stock is going to be a problem as well. In fact, I wanted to date my layout to a much simpler time, around 1880, but compromised for 1900’s, in part, for the availability of rolling stock that would at least represent what was used.

In a couple of years, I’ll probably be posting questions about that (or Marv will do it for me!).

Thanks again,

Crews