Small Baldwin 0-4-0 tank loco in 1:16 scale

[Scratchman]

Here's a photo of the Baldwin shop switcher being moved to a new location on a truck. I will be modeling both the loco and the truck but I will start another thread for the truck latter.



The drawings and some other photos are from Ron Knepp's Flickr page.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/knepp736/

These drawing give the basic information for the core of the loco with very little detail. I am looking for information on the back head detail, injectors, lubricator, water glass, throttle, and whatever else. For the brakes I'm going with one set of shoes on the front of the rear wheels with one brake cylinder down in-side the frame near the rear axle or is it on the right side of the the fire box up above the cab floor. With all the photos and drawings sitting in front of me I can not get my head around the valve gear. The cross section showing the valve gear makes no sense to me when you compare it to the photos and to the side-view drawing. I have been working  on the scale drawings and started the boiler, water tank, and the cab. Hopefully I will have some photos later today.   

Gordon Birrell

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77318580@N00/

[Gordon Ferguson]

Gordon,

will look forward to seeing this develop, funnly enough I was tempted to put my little crawler on a truck

[Ray Dunakin]

I'm looking forward to this! That little loco is one of my favorites and has been on my "must do, someday" list ever since I first saw those pics.

[Scratchman]

Ray... it made my day when I first saw that photo.

Gordon... thanks for posting the photo. That truck looks like it could handle two of those little crawlers.

Gordon Birrell

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[Scratchman]

Here's two photos of what I have got finished.





Gordon Birrell

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[Chuck Doan]

Oh Boy!

[TRAINS1941]

Holy rivets, Batman!!!  He's at it again.

Jerry

[Scratchman]

Rivets.... I've been using Grandt Line rivets and nut bolt castings for many years. I've used all three sizes of rivet on this work. The 032" down on the ash pan, the 043" on the water tank, the 063" on the cab and boiler. In my modeling I all so use a lot of hex nut bolt casting # 128 on the smoke box front.  I love all of these castings, no clean-up and I've never seen a bad one. the rivets come in round and conical head . Google in Grandt Line  go to there site click on Augmentables. for all of there hardware.

Gordon Birrell

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[finescalerr]

This is going to be a good one, Gordon. By all means keep us posted! -- Russ

[Malachi Constant]

What Russ said ... this thread is already quite riveting.  -- Dallas

[Chuck Doan]

Rivetman is what we should call you! I bought some Tichy rivets for my project and recently looked at them-a lot of flash! I shall look at Grandt Line; I can't be cleaning a thousand of those suckers!

[Ray Dunakin]

Wow! I'm always amazed at how quickly you build these incredible models, and always impressed by their quality!

[JohnP]

Gordon, the first post was July 24, then the progress photos on July 25. Please don't tell us you accomplished all that in less than 24 hours!

This loco is wonderful. It would make a nice live steamer in 7/8ths or a big/small loco @ 7.5" gauge.

John

[Scratchman]

Thanks guys for your comments. John, I have spent around 15 hours on the drawings, and 15 hours on  construction time. I Started this work around five weeks ago.

Gordon Birrell

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[PuckHog]

 
  Hello Gordon,

    As usual for you,  outstanding buillding!!

           randy