Left alone without a gear on the deadline for a few months, the shop installed an old plow that was lying around.
John,
You’ve given that ol’ fella a most impressive front end. Great!!
Yuh think with Barry’s stuff in it, she’ll plow?
Right now she’s stripped of all her motor and gears and free-wheels down the track.
I’m sure it will and you will need it with the never ending snow around here
John,
Good looking loco. Nice work on the plow.
Barry - BBT
I like the look! Did you make that plow yourself? When I first bought my Connie and shortened the front end I was trying to fashion a plow for it. I finally gave up since I couldn’t get the angles right. Yours looks like what I was trying to do.
Ken, It’s one of these I bought for the K27. You can get it at some retailers. It’s made by Bachmann. No one had any except Caboose Hobbies.
(http://www.lscdata.com/users/jebouck/k27plow.jpg)
No shortening of the pilot needed. It slips right on with a little carving and cutting on the bracket. You have to grind off a couple of the cast in bolts on the Connie pilot. The hardest part was mounting a coupler and getting it level and at the right height. I should have just left it off, in hindsight. I still need to add hanging chains and air lines.
Thanx, John. I thought it might be a store bought version, I’ll have to look one up.
Mine too. Thanx for the tip, John!! Before:
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh58/rgseng/RGS0005.jpg)
After:
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh58/rgseng/42plow02.jpg)
Ken,
Ain’t you heard ? Winter is over 
Ralph
Ralph, Ken added the plow, to push the accorns out of the way in the fall, at Ric’s… 
Ken,
The pics a little blured, but did you mount the bracket rods to the top of the plow?
I used the originals off the connie pilot and put them inside the plow. I like yours better.
I’m still not happy with my coupler.
I used an 830, because it fit the mount in the plow. But it sticks out there a mile!
But you need a long one to clear the plow and couple to the rear of the point engine. I may go back to the drawing board. Right now it’s a freewheeling dummy and it looks really cool double headed behind the K27.
How did you move and mount the headlight?
The headlite was originally moved to above the smokebox door. I was never really happy with that. since the rest of my locos all have the headlite mounted above the smokebox. I remembered I had a headlite mounting bracket stuffed away somehwere in my parts bin so I used that to mount it in front of the stack.
There were 2 sets if bracket rods that came with it. The detailed ones that fit into the plow were too short so I used the longer ones, fitted them into the holes on top of the plow and drilled new holes for them above the pilot brackets. The cowcatcher and coupler are still mounted to the front of the engine. Then to remove the plow there are 2 screws holding it to the front of the pilot and the new brackets just slip into and out of the holes I drilled in the smokebox. With the plow on I’m not going to worry about the coupler, unless it becomes clear that I like it too much with the plow on and may see if I can mount a KD to the plow.
The headlite bracket is a Trackside Details part# TD-106.
I’ll try and take some better pics later of the smokebox details.
Ralph, blame John. He didn’t post his conversion till now. That’s what gave me the idea.
Andy, I can’t use the Connie at Ric’s, it was too wide even without a plow. If I do use it, it’ll do some serious remodeling of Ric’s layout, specially with a plow on there now…
Here’s a better shot of the smokebox detail. You can see where the old headlite was mounted just above the smokebox door.
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh58/rgseng/42plow06-1.jpg)
I thought I may have to do something about the area where the bracket used to be, but where the headlite is now, you can’t see it anyway. I used some heat shrink tubing to hide the wires that run through the original hole I drilled. The brakets to hold the plow aren’t the detailed ones, just the plain rods. The others were too short to fit. I may have to work on the smokebox front to get the headlite a little more level. But I just wanted to see what it all looked like first.
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh58/rgseng/42plow07.jpg)
Looks good enough for a trip to Canada for their week of Summer.
Yea, Ric, we might need a snow plow up there…
Ken -
Where did you find the headlight bracket ?
Cripe, I only got 1 set of brackets in my package.
Bachmann keeps on putting it to me…
Jon Radder said:
Ken -Where did you find the headlight bracket ?
I got that bracket years ago for some such reason or another and never used it. I guess I ordered it from Trackside Details, unless I got it at a GR convention at one time. I really can’t remember exactly where or when I got it. It’s made of brass and the part no is TD-106. The price on the package is 8.50.
John, the brackets are about the size of a coat hanger wire. Not much to’em, should be easy to make. They’re about the same thickness as the more detailed brackets.
UPS dropped off the package yesterday morning and by 3 I had it all mounted. Wasn’t much to it.
Jon,
Check “Warrior Run” at York, I think he usually has a bunch of Trackside Detail stuff.