Throwing my hat into the ring. Minitrix 2-10-0 / I1SA improvements

[Coalcracker16]

Dave I do have some Camden & Amboy packaging & items still in the Train Room somewhere. I do not want to hijack this thread from the original posting
regarding the PRR 2-10-0;s, so I will start a new post regarding those items. If I can find the items, take pics, and figure out how to attach them, You will see
what we mean by quality of the products from back in the day compared to now.

[Dave V]

Dave I do have some Camden & Amboy packaging & items still in the Train Room somewhere. I do not want to hijack this thread from the original posting
regarding the PRR 2-10-0;s, so I will start a new post regarding those items. If I can find the items, take pics, and figure out how to attach them, You will see
what we mean by quality of the products from back in the day compared to now.

Not a big deal, I don't want to make work for you! Those are long off the market anyway. Was just curious. I would assume the tender kit was a short tender to fit on the Minitrix chassis?

[Coalcracker16]

Actually Dave it was the long tender that was a splice of two of the short tenders. If you look at Lee's Model, that is the one. Also the Boiler shell which luckily was a tad beefier,
had the feedwater heater molded onto the Fireman's side. It still needed some work and a little bashing to make it right. The owner of the business, whose name escapes me now,
did his best back then to give us PRR material to work with. It's just that some castings had many almost un-repairable flaws as mentioned earlier.

[pmpexpress]

I'm unfamiliar with the C&A kit... Does anyone have a picture of what it looked like?

While the following photos weren't the greatest ever taken, they will provide some insight into what the unassembled Camden & Amboy Models kits looked like.



Camden & Amboy Models K-212-A Long Distance Tender Kit



Camden & Amboy Models K-212 Modified I-1 Engine Shell with Long Distance Tender Kit



Camden & Amboy Models K-212 Modified I-1 Engine Shell with Long Distance Tender Kit

[muktown128]

I may have some C&A long distance tenders and/or shells somewhere in my train room.  I picked up a bunch of Pennsy stuff years ago when I picked up a HCD layout in Central PA.  The haul included a model of the Lewistown, PA station and some I1 locos.  The I1 locos may have used C&A shells.  I was able to coordinate the trip to attend the N-Scale Weekend event in Bedford. 

[Dave V]

Actually Dave it was the long tender that was a splice of two of the short tenders. If you look at Lee's Model, that is the one. Also the Boiler shell which luckily was a tad beefier,
had the feedwater heater molded onto the Fireman's side. It still needed some work and a little bashing to make it right. The owner of the business, whose name escapes me now,
did his best back then to give us PRR material to work with. It's just that some castings had many almost un-repairable flaws as mentioned earlier.

That's exactly what I did to create my 210F75. It rides on the trucks from a Con-Cor J3. The shell is a pair of Minitrix tenders spliced with a frame extended with styrene. I scratchbuilt a doghouse and then added Gold Metal Models Trainphone antenna stanchions.

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Although the long tenders on the I1sa class were the 16-wheel 210F82, my home-built 210F75 looks sufficiently the part that I'm not going to sweat it. Based on the photo, looks like I wouldn't gain anything with the casting.

[Coalcracker16]

Thanks for doing the legwork on the C&A Packages muktown28. That's the one, I also have a two pack of H30a covered Hoppers that I can't do anything with
except make the Wreck loads or scrap. BTW, do you have picks of the model of the Lewistown Station ?? I would be interested......
Dave your Tender looks nice. Good work !!!

[muktown128]

Thanks for doing the legwork on the C&A Packages muktown28. That's the one, I also have a two pack of H30a covered Hoppers that I can't do anything with
except make the Wreck loads or scrap. BTW, do you have picks of the model of the Lewistown Station ?? I would be interested......
Dave your Tender looks nice. Good work !!!

@pmpexpress posted the pics of the C&A packages. 

I'll work on digging out the tenders, I1's and Lewistown station and try to get this done before I leave for N Scale Weekend in Altoona next weekend. 

[Dave V]

Thanks for doing the legwork on the C&A Packages muktown28. That's the one, I also have a two pack of H30a covered Hoppers that I can't do anything with
except make the Wreck loads or scrap. BTW, do you have picks of the model of the Lewistown Station ?? I would be interested......
Dave your Tender looks nice. Good work !!!

Thanks!

I know the question wasn't directed at me, but my old Lewistwon station was built by our own DKS (who is no longer active here) from a pair of Walthers Water Street Freight Terminal kits. The station (and layoput) now live with @eric220 .

[Coalcracker16]

Muktown128, I appreciate your digging those items out for me to look at. I am heading to Altoona as well. I am bringing some items for sale.
One item is a PRR G5 Project that I bought at a show. The chassis is a sweet /cherry Graham Farrish 4-6-0, It is connected to a cut down Atlas
Rivarossi tender base and a cut down Minitrix tender. There is a modified Trix Boiler shell too. I actually just wanted the chassis for making a
Camelback but I have so many irons in the fire right now, I feel like Lemosteam. The cylinders are too small anyway for that bash, but I get
what the guy was trying to do. Anyone interested ??? Anyway, I look forward to your post and pics.....

[sirenwerks]

In the darkness of moving boxes yet to be open I have one of these locos (minus tender), and I will never use it... Somewhere a Pennsy fan dies.