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Lil Big Hauler loco bash, what to bash?

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#1

My desktop DSL modem decided to die so while I wait for a replacement to arrive I am stuck with the smartphone so I can’t post pics.

Last BTS I picked up a second tendered LBH engine, the green one, with the idea of making a little boxcab out of a LBH caboose.

But after a couple weeks I am wondering if there might be other more interesting ideas I have not considered. So I will put it out here, what else could I do? You know my penchant for odd engines

:slight_smile:

4 axle coupled drive.

Pistons or not

Steam or internal combustion

?

#2

Definitely pistols!

(Huh?)

#3

Joe Zullo said:

Definitely pistols!

(Huh?)

You gotta watch Vic. Them steam pistols pack a wallop.

#4

I picked up an LBH tank engine on a whim the other day, with the idea of doing something vaguely Hunslet with it.

Have to do something about connecting and piston rods; inside cylinders really don’t work with a narrow gauge loco.

The body, however, looks like a relatively easy hack job.

#5

Vic, how about a TINY forney type? or a little Mason bogie? I was actually thinking of a forney myself for my unit.

#6

Pistols changed to pistons, tiny keyboard and a masochistic auto-spell feature can lead to interesting sentences.

JD I was considering something like that similar to an Arizona Copper Company 0-4-4.

#7

(http://www.backwoodsminiatures.com/xforntndr3.jpg)

Vic, while trying to hunt down a pic of this engine you spoke of, I came across this site http://www.backwoodsminiatures.com which produces (mainly) On30 resin kits. Here is a shot of their kit to modify the On30 forney into a tender engine. Looks like a good mod for the LS crowd too, but I think it shows that the Lil’Hauler would look good going the other way.

Edit Reason: fixed the URL coding

#8

JD I kinda already have something like that with the bumble bee. But I see some future mods for the bee there.

The 0-4-4 might also be under Coronado Mining co. The biggest issue with this bash is whatever I do has to work on the pizza, unless its something that would work with the harbor layout. That will determine what couplers I put on it

#9

Well, go with a mason bogie style then. that has articulation on both “trucks”. A small 20’ flatcar with eh boiler, cab & tender, a small archbar truck under the tender area and the drive brick under the boiler.

#10

I still wanna see the steam powered pistols.

#11

Hooray I have internet access on my desktop one again! :smiley:

Sorry Steve no steam powered pistols, but I did find a steam powered Dalek, probably just as lethal (to the operator) as the steam pistols

(http://walyou.com/wp-content/uploads//2011/01/sewer-maintenance-machine.jpg)

:wink:

#12

(http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/67088633.jpg)

Now that I can post pics again,

JD this is what I wa referring to, one of the 0-4-4 mining engines used by the Arizona Copper Mining Co. The biggest problem would be that to operate on my pizza both the drive and trailing truck would have to pivot like a Mason. That would involve ALOT of cutting on the LBH. there wouldnt be much left of the LBH afterwords.

#13

Vic,

I built many years ago an Arizona Mining Co. loco much like this based on the LGB Porter with around two-thirds of an Aristo Classic flatcar body attached to the footplate. Body work was then built up around the flatcar body.

There are two methods to choose when articulating the truck. First (as I did was to mount the truck pivot in a lateral slot with weight being taken by a light spring to ensure smooth sliding operation. The other method, which I have used several times is a pivot bar attached to the talgo tang on the truck extending forward to a mount/pivot point on the rear of the motor block. A bullet shaped pin is attached through the truck bolster mount hole to slide on the underside of the body above.

Both these methods work well on ‘normal’ radii track curves but may need some experimentation on R1 curves as massive body overhang would occur.

#14

Vic Smith said:

(http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/67088633.jpg)

Now that I can post pics again,

JD this is what I wa referring to, one of the 0-4-4 mining engines used by the Arizona Copper Mining Co. The biggest problem would be that to operate on my pizza both the drive and trailing truck would have to pivot like a Mason. That would involve ALOT of cutting on the LBH. there wouldnt be much left of the LBH afterwords.

Make it work like you always do! I like it !

#15

That is sweet. Rooster get to bed.

#16

Well doodling on my CAD believe it or not this would be a better bash for my forlorn LGB Big Thunder Porter. So I am stuck back where I started at.

I can do the same trailing truck assembly I used on the LGB Chloe-stien bash. So I still need an idea idea or two for the Lil Hauler.

#17

What about combining it with a Lil’Hauler coach, some railbus details and make it a steam commuter car?

#18

I like this little guy:

(http://www.midcontinent.org/rollingstock/CandS/dsp-passenger/images/nyelevated_dummy.jpg)

Steve,

You can get instructions for a steam powered pistol here: http://www.instructables.com/id/Steam-Powered-Potato-Pistol-10/

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcyCBgk313I[/youtube]

#19

Or this crazy one:

(http://www.worsleyworks.co.uk/Images/16mmMoM/mom0808-8.jpg)

#20

Nice Bruce. I like that first one.

JD I was considering something like that similar to an Americanized version of an Aussie Coffee Pot.
I’ll have to look into that.