Some time ago I acquired an LGB Sumpter Valley Mallet. It was a good runner but never fit in with my 1:20 equipment. I got a wild hare one day and made a new cab for it. It was ok at best but it looked a tad bit better and I went with it. About a year or so ago it made the trek down the basement stairs on it’s own… That prompted two things 1: a storage yard in my barn that i can run straight into and 2: finally getting around to redoing the mallet. I never took pics of the loco in numerous pieces on the floor, but here is one of it with it’s redone cab;
Here she is under reconstruction:
The front end took heavy damage. So, I decided to make it a lil shorter by being a 0-6-6-2. This I hope will make it a bit more proportional for 1:20. I was also thinking of pinning the back set of trucks in place. More to come. Terry