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This is quite a long article, after all the building of this loco took me 6 months! I have sudivided it into pages to assist readers. I have attempted to make it as comprehensive as possible to assist anyone who is maybe thinking of building steam outline locomotives for a garden railway, and then to build one as well. If I can be of any help please send me a note and I will try to assist.
But first a photo of what the loco looks like before the transfers were added.
These mogul (2 6 0) locomotives built in 1884 by the Cooke Locomotive Works in New Jersey There were eight of these built,for the DSP&PRR, and they were originally numbered 39, 40, and 69 to 74.
There is a photo of number 69 when almost new with a distinctive snowplough on the front of the loco; this I had decided was to be my model.
I am a member of the web group 'myLargescale.com': this group, which is free to join for basic facilities, has a long running series of building logs called 'Masterclass' on building (at present) a Mason Bogie ( a large single Fairlie really) which started my interest in a garden railway (or should that be railroad as my interest is in American railways?). These 'masterclasses' (there are other ones as well) are a gold mine of information with 'on line' help when needed. The information from the group as a whole has been invaluable in helping me with building this loco.
Whilst at the large model railway exhibition at Warley, on the Bachmann stand there was a re-furbished Bachmann 4 6 0 for sale. When this was reduced to just under £100 it was bought to be the primary donor loco for my mogul.
I had some superlative assistance from another loco builder, in Australia! We are both members of the web group: 'myLargescale.com'. David was building a c.1900 version of this loco. Mine was to be in the 'as delivered in 1884' condition, and the photo I was using is in the very good (published 2004) book on the DSP&PRR, by Mel Ferrell - (The South Park Line, pub. by Hundman Press), on page 237. There is also a drawing on pages 344 & 345, though I used the drawing in American Gauge O (1/48th scale) from the Dec 1998 Model Railroader which has more detail. This drawing does have a fault though, the boiler diameter should be 50", my finished boiler diameter is 66mm - this is scale 4.4 ft which I consider is close enough, closer diameter pipe was looked for but not found.
I started on the locomotive and tender by dismantling it all, a difficult job - those Chinese assemblers, are clever!
The disassembly is covered in my article 'Dismembering an Annie', this leaves you with a chassis that can be modified, or added to. I work in 1/20th scale - there is a LGB version in several liveries of the loco; this is to a general scale of 1/22.5, which is the scale of all of the LGB range; it was not suitable for my purposes.
At this point I should say thsat all the photo's from here are shown as thumbnails, click on the thumbnail and there will be displyaed a larger and clearer one.
With the chassis now available, in a very basic form, a quick check was made at the tube store, there I dug out some 62mm tube for the boiler - it is almost 50% larger than a Mason Bogie which I am also building, the building of this loco is one of the reasons for working in 1/20th scale. The mason bogie, of which there will be two versions eventually, is also being built with the assistance of a Masterclass by David Fletcher in 'myLargescale.com'
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