Number 7 (right) was built by ALCO’s Brooks Works in 1906, the only narrow gauge rod engine on the ET&WNC that was not built by Baldwin. It was also the only 0-8-0 switcher built especially for an American narrow gauge railroad. Doug Walker Collection. cale now as much as I love the ET&WNC, that is one UGLY loco!
I kind of like it.
C. Nelson said:
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Number 7 (right) was built by ALCO’s Brooks Works in 1906, the only narrow gauge rod engine on the ET&WNC that was not built by Baldwin. It was also the only 0-8-0 switcher built especially for an American narrow gauge railroad. Doug Walker Collection. cale now as much as I love the ET&WNC, that is one UGLY loco!
Just take the leading truck off the Bachmann Connie, and you’ve almost got it. Or take the leading AND trailing trucks off a LGB/Aster White Pass mike… tac www.ovgrs.org
I think it is the balancing act of all that steel above those drivers that makes it look strange. Without the pilot wheels, all the rod engines have a strange, somethings missing, look to me.
…Or take the leading AND trailing trucks off a LGB/Aster White Pass mike…
I did that the other day.
Didn’t look quite right, so I put them back on. 
Is that an inside or outside framed loco?
I can’t quite tell from the photo.
I think it’s the position (and length) of the cab that make it look a bit off-kilter. It definitely looks like it needs something under the cab. If you see it from a 3/4 angle, it’s quite well proportioned. It definitely looks a bit better in its earlier days when it had 44" drivers, as opposed to the 36" drivers shown in that photo.
John, inside frame.
Later,
K
there are more pics of the loco I found the other day, just can’t remember where…it had a different tender at one time as well!
