Back to work on the K-2

[wm3798]

Here she is clunking around the layout a bit...






There's still a few more details to add, most notably a bell, also the number plate on the front of the smoke box.  I also need to weather the oil bunker and put some spills and stains on it.

The running quality of the old Rivarossi drive isn't horrible, but it's no match for the Bachmann connie either.  I'm hoping to get my hands on a set of the old passenger car lettering I did years ago (a friend of mine has a set buried in his work bench...) so I can do the cars in time to run the train at the Beano Museum in December.  I think N trak conditions are ideal for this baby.

I don't think there's too much more steam in my future...  Diesels are just so much easier to work on and operate... but this was a fun project.  I basically took it on to challenge myself to do it as well as I could.  I'm very happy with the results.

Lee

[AlkemScaleModels]

Here she is clunking around the layout a bit...






There's still a few more details to add, most notably a bell, also the number plate on the front of the smoke box.  I also need to weather the oil bunker and put some spills and stains on it.

The running quality of the old Rivarossi drive isn't horrible, but it's no match for the Bachmann connie either.  I'm hoping to get my hands on a set of the old passenger car lettering I did years ago (a friend of mine has a set buried in his work bench...) so I can do the cars in time to run the train at the Beano Museum in December.  I think N trak conditions are ideal for this baby.

I don't think there's too much more steam in my future...  Diesels are just so much easier to work on and operate... but this was a fun project.  I basically took it on to challenge myself to do it as well as I could.  I'm very happy with the results.

Lee

Great work. You should package it into an article for Kirk or N Scale Mag.

BCK

[wm3798]

Aside from the oil bunker, I followed an article by a guy named David Lloyd that was published back in the 1980's in a European hobby rag, which was re-printed in the WMRHS magazine...  I updated it with the DCC installation.

I'm also terrible about taking good progress shots.  I take a lot of progress shots, but they're typically not very good, plus when I went back to fix mistakes, I didn't reshoot.

One of these days I'll do that.  It would probably be more useful to do an article converting the pilot of the Bachmann 2-8-0 to look more like a WM prototype...  That old Rivarossi job is nice, but the drive is hardly state of the art and outside of the occasional hit on eBay, it's not readily available.  Good thing it's a passenger engine, because it works best at top speed!

But thanks just the same!  Maybe next time!
Lee

[up1950s]

Lookin' great Lee , and that layout is an eyeful also .

[wm3798]

Thanks, Richie!
Lee