Mikado thread
Re: Mikado thread
Jim, the squashed top outline has always been a give-away for a USRA loco for me. Compare the boiler taper and sand-dome on your loco with the SP mikes in Bob T's photos above. You might check on the T&P and MP as having similar appearing oil burner mikes.
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Thanks for the response, Charlie. I don't have a well calibrated eye for comparing steam locomotives, so let's put them side by side:
While the general layout is similar, Bob's version is a long and lanky thing while mine is short and stout by comparison. One would think there is a better match out there somewhere. Both T&P and MoPac would be good choices for me. As it is, I just found a copy of MoPac Power by Joe Collias for a reasonable amount on-line, so I will start there. I don't have good reference books for either T&P or Rock Island but some of my fellow local modelers probably do. No hurry on this one, so I have plenty of time to nose around as see what I can find.
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While the general layout is similar, Bob's version is a long and lanky thing while mine is short and stout by comparison. One would think there is a better match out there somewhere. Both T&P and MoPac would be good choices for me. As it is, I just found a copy of MoPac Power by Joe Collias for a reasonable amount on-line, so I will start there. I don't have good reference books for either T&P or Rock Island but some of my fellow local modelers probably do. No hurry on this one, so I have plenty of time to nose around as see what I can find.
Jim
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Re: Mikado thread
The MKT is another TX road using oil burning locos that might fit. I did look up the T&P and they did receive USRA mikes, but by the '40s they had been teepeed with headache feedwater heaters and funny stacks.
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Hello Mikado fans
Here is an ad for the Lobaugh Mikado as offered in September 1938 Model Railroader
Here is an ad for the Lobaugh Mikado as offered in September 1938 Model Railroader
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Re: Mikado thread
Hey -- double sand-domes, just like the ScaleCraft ATSF Mikado! But that's where the similarity ends:
Ha! Isn't she a sight?
Ha! Isn't she a sight?
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R.K. Maroon wrote:Hey -- double sand-domes, just like the ScaleCraft ATSF Mikado! But that's where the similarity ends:
Ha! Isn't she a sight?
But worth the effort to breathe life back into.
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Yes. The Scale Craft boiler lacks taper (or at least the proper amount) and hence makes a better Mountain boiler. But I like doorstops, so my Mountain can double as a reduced-taper 2-10-2. Time for those photos you have seen before. I just have to light off the big computer and figure out how to use it with all those unwanted upgrades.
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R.K. Maroon wrote:Hey -- double sand-domes, just like the ScaleCraft ATSF Mikado! But that's where the similarity ends Ha! Isn't she a sight?
One could make a decent Berk out of that, too.
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I suppose. John Dill was in the process . . . too much work.
Here you go:
The Mikado. I do not care for the Scale Craft tender, so it has this, and one of those stubby things off the older Mallets, with Pullman trucks.
This one can be a Mountain or a Santa Fe, with only three screws. No photo of it on the Mountain Mech.
Here you go:
The Mikado. I do not care for the Scale Craft tender, so it has this, and one of those stubby things off the older Mallets, with Pullman trucks.
This one can be a Mountain or a Santa Fe, with only three screws. No photo of it on the Mountain Mech.
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Captions are backwards. Not gonna edit.
Here is the venerable Williams Mike. I thought it was way undersize until I measured it against the Overland version. These things are not bad for the price, which currently is around $250. I would sell it in a heartbeat for $350.
Here is the venerable Williams Mike. I thought it was way undersize until I measured it against the Overland version. These things are not bad for the price, which currently is around $250. I would sell it in a heartbeat for $350.
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Hello here we have Walthers/ Crestline Mikado from December 1937
Any examples of this engine out there ?
Eric beautiful photo your magic touch with the smoke
Thank you
Carey
Any examples of this engine out there ?
Eric beautiful photo your magic touch with the smoke
Thank you
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bob turner wrote:..... the venerable Williams Mike.
That looks rather good. What all did you do to it, if anything?
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I think I let the Museum run it for a month, and surely it has several years' dust and fly specks on it. Otherwise stock, with original box. Unlike some Williams, this is a smooth runner.
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bob turner wrote:Here is the venerable Williams Mike.
I bought 2 just like the one BobT posted, first one came to $180 delivered, second was $250.
Really like these old Williams brass engines. The first one was converted into a Seaboard class Q3:
Second one I believe was unaltered, other than the paint, into a Seaboard class Q1:
Here's a photo of Ron Dettmer's (scratchbuilt I think) SAL class Q3:
I also have 2 Williams brass USRA Pacifics, one painted for an ACL passenger engine and the other painted for ACL freight. My 5th Williams brass is a N&W class J (most expensive of the 5 at $475).
Ebay prices for these Williams brass engines are all over the place.
Of course, all mine are 3-rail wheels converted to 2-rail BPRC
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