Model Train Journal

These are mostly the photos that got de-linked in my 2020 thread. I will stick them in here all at once, so they are easy to review - as I did with the Cab Forward and Back-Up Malley thread.

First, the switchers:



The early Pratt/Lobaugh, in 17/64.



Same, but under construction, with my own tender and cab rivets.



Scratchbuilt. One of four - 17/64

Skipping for a moment the 0-8-0, here is a Lobaugh 4-4-0:



And a Mogul in 1 1/8" gauge:



And last for tonight, the 0-8-0

As always, very nice! I’m always wondering what great photos have been purged in the past lol.

Thank you. This morning I will re-load the Consolidation and a lot of my Ten-wheelers.

Here is the Consolidation - 17/64 Scale, based on a Lobaugh Berk frame:



Next, an almost complete Ten-wheeler. Note the drivers - Harold Peters had a pile of these, and I got three axles worth, all with gearboxes. I think I gave the gears away, because all of these are NWSL/Pittman:



Here is what they look like finished. I rode behind the prototype in the 1990s:



This one also has an existing prototype - in Mesa, Arizona. The model does not exactly match, since I chose the larger driver size of a later Harriman prototype. It is also the only 4-6-0 in my collection that is not "tender drive."

Note the taper on these boilers - I found this particular boiler to be the most challenging of all I have done. 2355 was my first attempt, and I did the taper three times. The firebox taper is slightly off - I corrected that in my subsequent efforts. I think I have done four of these, and Stevenson has the rods if anyone ever decides a 17/64 Harriman is in their future.

This afternoon I will attack the Pacifics, and return to the 0-6-0s.

I take that back - here is the rest of the 0-6-0 collection:



The one in front I did for Bob Stevenson from his kit. The one behind is my only 1950s Lobaugh - the "Lost Wax" switcher. My old friend George Wilson did a lot of work on the kit, and his name appears on Lobaugh drawings of the era.



This one is an early scratchbuilt effort. I measured a Roundhouse HO Harriman switcher and re-created it in 17/64. It was six days start to finish, not including paint and decals which came years later.

I note that paint and decals really help the appearance - early on, I figured my work in brass was good enough to withstand scrutiny, and entered bare brass models in popular vote contests. One hundred percent of the time they lost to factory built, and sometimes factory painted, models.

So I started shooting Scalecoat and flinging chalk dust - and started to get first place ribbons. Studying the above photos I can see why - the bare brass models are unimpressive in a photo collection including painted and weathered models.

Now I am off to the airport. Back in the evening with Pacifics.

6:30 PM - a good day - eight Stearman landings, six Cub landings, a couple of glue joints on my wing ribs, a "beer with the boys" and I am back.

Pacifics - almost all of my Pacifics are Lobaugh, hence 1/4" scale. The Lobaugh Pacific is not a really great platform for an SP Pacific, since it is closer to a USRA design - but one can take liberties . . .

It is probably closest to the two Lima Pacifics originally built for the Arizona Eastern, but were acquired by SP and sent to the Bay Area. Here we go:



This one was originally AE # 702.



This one became SP #2476. Both were class P-7 on the SP.

Next we have more or less stock Lobaugh, attempting to imitate class P-8. The boiler is all wrong, but still, they make nice models:







(Still working on this one)

And a couple scratchbuilds in 17/64, followed by an attempt at the streamlined P-10 using the Lobaugh base.





(Really a UP P-77, but that tender sort of converts it to an SP P-6)

Bob, Magnifico!!

Dan Weinhold

bob turner wrote:I note that paint and decals really help the appearance - early on, I figured my work in brass was good enough to withstand scrutiny, and entered bare brass models in popular vote contests. One hundred percent of the time they lost to factory built, and sometimes factory painted, models.

What kind of pathetic soul gets satisfaction from taking something they had no hand in creating and entering it in a contest?

One of the images above failed. Shutterfly is posting a new window, with different descriptors - let's see if this works:

Yeah - there it is. I am going to compare the failed link with the new one:
Old link that failed immediately -

https://uniim1.shutterfly.com/render/00 ... 1696211377

New one:

https://uniim1.shutterfly.com/render/00 ... 1696211377

Anybody see a difference?

Time to load the strange SP steam?

First, the ones with prototypes - the B&M Berkshires:







And one without a prototype:

I also have an SP Hudson, but apparently have not loaded it into Shutterfly. I have Atlantics, Mikes & Decks, and Mountains, and of course Daylights to load - later.