Monday Mountain thread

[bob turner]

First, delighted that you guys like the store bought spoked wheels. That's why I keep my PSC passenger coaches well hidden - forces visitors to admire my carefully built and painted Walthers cars.

Jim - the model is scratch in 17/64, closely adhering to the SP Harriman Consolidation. Sometimes I wing it on the small stuff - the only tail beams I am really careful with are the ones that go with the early Hodges trailing trucks. I try to get major dimensions correct, then just add stuff. Same with rivets - I don't count them, divide by the length of the cab, etc. and I prefer cast iron drivers over the more accurate coined brass.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

First, delighted that you guys like the store bought spoked wheels.

I need to replace the wheelsets on a few of my CVRR engines with those spoked wheels - the photos I have show them there; just have not gotten to that detail

[bob turner]

A day early. You cannot say I am not holding my end of the conversation up. Yes, it is hot here - might make 85 today, but I will be behind a giant fan.

Done for Jim Seacrest. I will miss him, but maybe not some of his projects.

[rogruth]

Very nice, as usual, Bob.

[J. S. Bach]

A day early. You cannot say I am not holding my end of the conversation up. Yes, it is hot here - might make 85 today,

Made 97 here today.

[R.K. Maroon]

Since we have a few Consolidations posted already I will post up this one:



This is commonly known as a Megow model, but it was built by Scale Model Railways. Megow acquired the SMR operation from Jack Ferris around 1940. The ads called these from "Scale Model Railways, a Megow Plant". The boiler is cast, so my guess was this was SMR's answer to the Saginaw models, which also had cast boilers. The idea was to lower the cost for the manufacturer to deliver a ready-to-run locomotive and/or make the model easier to build as a kit by eliminating the solder work to attach all the detail to the boiler. Like any good 2-8-0, this is a little workhorse. However, as with a good number of early steam models, the worm is attached directly to the motor shaft, which is unsupported at the tip. This is not a very stiff setup for the gears, with the result that this makes a good bit of noise as it runs. The noise doesn't bother me (I would question my interest in doorstops if it did), but I would worry about premature gear wear if I ran this a lot with a heavy load on the drawbar.

Jim

[rogruth]

Jim,
Take the brains, leave the trains.

[Wolf]

Since it has been a while since any one has posted a Mountain (or Consolidation as were the last several posts)
I figured I'd step into the breech and offer a few views of my Espee Mike...


Cannot offer many details, seems to be a Lobaugh mechanism with rolled sheet brass boiler,
Lobaugh Vanderbilt tender. Came to me in the custom carrying case...

[bob turner]

It does appear to be a very nicely done Lobaugh. The tender has too many rivets to be either a prewar or postwar Lobaugh tender - it too seems very well done. How about some close ups of the mechanism, tail beam, and tender.

Thanks for posting - looks like you have a winner!

[E7]

Since we have a few Consolidations posted already I will post up this one:



This is commonly known as a Megow model, but it was built by Scale Model Railways.
Jim

Jim, That one's a "peach"!

Rich

[Wolf]

It does appear to be a very nicely done Lobaugh. The tender has too many rivets to be either a prewar or postwar Lobaugh tender - it too seems very well done. How about some close ups of the mechanism, tail beam, and tender.

OK, here's the best I can do for the mechanism and the tailbeam, I'm not going to do any disassembly on this one until I positively have to or it needs some work done to it.

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And several views of the tender...the drawbar is broken and needs to be repaired and/or replaced Otherwise the model is in great shape.

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[bob turner]

Ttender is quite well done, but not Lobaugh. It may be a really good scratch build. Mechanism is stock Lobaugh. Tail beam and trailing truck detract from an otherwise superb model. All opinion.

[Jay Criswell]

Bob,

Any chance it's one of the 12K gal. models Max Gray brought in to go behind the "Lost Wax Mike"?

[bob turner]

I don't think so - I believe the Max tender was the uglier one behind the 1744 that Joe Dale Morris helped restore. It went from the HeberCreeper to New Orleans, and thence to Walsenburg, I think. It was probably a 90C, but had a strange, smaller oil tank.

I might be wrong - I have only seen a couple.

[bob turner]

I take it back - it could be. The distinguishing feature is that angle around the bottom and back - you see that on the 120Cs, but not often on the 90C- and 100C tenders. Or maybe this is in fact a 120C- it looks too small . . .