Model Train Journal

Over on the On3 groups.io, the purchaser of this model:
Ebay #397821300510 - " siIMP O GAUGE DOCKSIDE LOCO #5801 W OB & BLUEPRINT (KR149)....TK"
is asking if anyone can identify it?

It is a model of a narrow gauge outside frame D&RGW K-28 locomotive, but the model has standard gauge wheelsets. The 13th photo (attached to the completed auction listing) shows the underside of the model - the outside frame and counterweights are way thinner that the prototype parts.

The purchaser notes that the gear train resembles what is in the IMP Dockside and that the drivers are in 2 pairs of 4.

Can anyone here add anything else about this model?

Looks like a pretty good scratchbuilt. I will look again at the mechanism - I wondered how you figured it was 5' gauge. Note the bunch of spur gears coming forward from behind the trailing truck.

I bet whoever made it had the skills to do a more accurate model once he/she finished this lonely model. The prototypes are alive and well in Chama and Durango.

Saw that listing; bit of a head scratcher....blue prints for an IMP dock side....and has the basic IMP nest of gears drive system that you see under the IMP boxcab units.

Scratch/bash from whatever??

I Saw that on EBay. There were other models in the collection that appeared to be early Japanese brass. The auction description stated that the original purchaser was stationed in Japan in the military. I wonder if this model was one built from plans submitted by the original purchaser by one of the late 40s early 50s Japanese builders. If it is 1:48 that would be an interesting model. If it was built to a larger scale such as 7/16” to the foot it could represent the correct scale to represent 3’gauge on O gauge track. I was wondering when I was looking at the model on the auction site if it was built to a larger scale.