Berkshire big and heavy built by ?

[Carey Williams]

Hello Bob your engine is looking good ....drawing the piping on sure is easier than soldering ... good luck on your search for proper wire .
Cheers Carey

[bob turner]

Needs whistle (easy, but I cannot figure out where it goes) lifting injector, booster pipes under the cab, and a few miscellaneous handrails. Haven't touched the tender, except for bead blast.

[bob turner]

Oops. Will get a right side shot to replace the second one.

[Carey Williams]

Hello Bob

The Berkshire ...looks great ..my bell is located on the center top of the boiler front .... unknown if that was / is the correct location..

cheers Carey

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[bob turner]

Yes Carey - that is the correct location. Can you post a shot of the boiler top? Your builder obviously knew the Kanawha. My headlight is in the wrong spot, and my pops may be on backwards. Photo evidence is sparse.

[Carey Williams]

Hello Bob
Here are some top side photos
With luck I have it do a test run on the first leg of the layout next week and send you a video link.
Cheers Carey

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[bob turner]

Thanks. They help.

[bob turner]

Here's the other side after blasting and before paint. I have to get longer trucks for the tender - PSC makes really nice C&O Buckeyes.

Oh - and some of those booster pipe castings. I have a whole bunch of those finicky operating booster swivels, but no more of those neat Kemtron castings that you just drill and solder on. Oh well . . .

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[bob turner]

Close - and in black primer:

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[bob turner]

And the other side:

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I think this is where it stays for a while. If there are dry transfers for C&O steam, I may add those. I got all carried away and bead blasted and painted my Lobaugh SP 4-4-0 today - maybe a photo of that in black primer for you tomorrow?

Did everybody give up and go to Facebook, or perhaps NK? Interesting thread started there about some Irishman getting ready to import the definitive GS-4.

[John Webster]

Looking forward to the 4-4-0 photos.

[J. S. Bach]

...snip... Lobaugh SP 4-4-0 today - maybe a photo of that in black primer for you tomorrow? ...snip...

Please do. I sort of like smaller steam.

[bob turner]

Here it is: Genuine Lobaugh, but scratch tender. Switcher cab. Copied one found in a Dan Henon OSN. Kit from Frank Thomson.

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[Rufus T. Firefly]

I got all carried away and bead blasted and painted my Lobaugh SP 4-4-0 today - maybe a photo of that in black primer for you tomorrow?

Yes, please. In fact, please start a new thread for 4-4-0's!

Did everybody give up and go to Facebook, or perhaps NK?

The former, no. The latter, I wander in briefly at times....

Interesting thread started there about some Irishman getting ready to import the definitive GS-4.

Oh, dear....... Will it be the best ever O scale model of all time?

[John Webster]

Thanks Bob, she's a beauty.