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cab to tender hinged deck

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#1

Hey Y’all;

Added that cab to tender hinged deck, which I forget the technical name for, to a couple Big Hauler 4-6-0.
Design was intended to be simple, sturdy, mostly, and made from what was on hand.
How about we let the photos tell the story.
Except the photos don’t tell that I did this in the single digit counted on one hand a.m. hours.
I don’t know for sure where it sits as for strictly prototypical height attached to cab: I put it where I liked the angle, sloped but close to level.
Then again, what, on a Big Hauler is strictly to a prototype anyway.
(okay is it what I did, or what I did not? thought I remembered that the thumbnail function from Photobucket would work on here. Guess I better go look up photo directions again)

#2

I like it. I would like to add that to many of my locomotives. It looks odd to me, to have a gaping gap between the locomotive and tender.

#3

Forrest,

As I posted on the B’mann forum, it’s called a foot plate. Nice work.

#4

Also known as the cab apron

#5

deck plate

#6

I’ve also added that to the few tendered locos I have, in my case they are narrower due to the extreme curvature of the pizza so the tender still clears the cab. But it does make a big difference image wise. I dont know why at this scale all locomotives don’t have them

#7

There was a deck plate on my Botchman Spectrum 4-4-0, but it didn’t survive repeated attaching of the wires between tender and cab. Too fragile at this scale to be practical, I think.

#8

Vic, yes, I want to add on to my Aristo C16. I do not know why locomotives don’t come with them. Maybe its a throwback to our toy heritage.

#9

My Hudson has one and it’s a pain to hold that up and get the draw bar in the right hole… But it looks nice all hooked up!(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)

#10

Sean, I ran into the same problem, but with a Big Boy. It seems like a better design would have two loops like grab irons on the back of the cab floor with tabs on the deck plate (or whatever it’s proper name is) that would go down into the grab irons with a loose fit. Course then there would be the issue of it getting lost.

#11

To hold the plate up while working on connecting the draw-bar and electrical connections, couldn’t you use a real long rubber band around the cab and plate. Not one that is so tight it would slip up, or cause damage, I mean one long enough to just hold the plate up while you fiddle with them fiddly connections.

#12

I haven’t carried a hair elastic since 1975… (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)