Ok…crappy weather struck this week, and since I’m not able to get out and work on the layout, I went to work in The Bunker instead. Of the several projects laying around, the parts for a 2-6-6-2 I’d been noodling with were laying there, so whut the heck. I had a prototype, Mud Bay Logging No8, a 1928 product of Baldwin…
While No8 (later she was Weyerhaeuser No6, and survives still today) was a standard gauge loco, I’m hoping to capture her ‘look’ in a narrow gauge model rather than an attempt at a true scale model. Her designation will be WV&K No 101. Both the ET&WNC and EBT had notions of a 2-6-6-2 that never came to pass, so this s gonna be a “What If” project. Other than the Uintah 2-6-6-2s (They were NOT mallets, they were simple articulateds, there’s a difference) the only NG articulateds were export locos. The project is being conducted from stuff I’ve been stockpiling for the last 10 years, and as a base I picked a pair of Big Haulers that had run flawlessly for me in the past. The work of removing all the Craptronics had been done on one, but I had to gut the other. Finally I was able to start adding new bits, and the journey towards Malletdom had begun. First was adding new counter weights on all drivers. New cylinder assemblies are next.
