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New Blight engine revamp

Modeling
#1

Been slowly working on going thru my collection to sort the good from the bad, deciding that the bad must be made good or at least look better. So I have been reworking some 1/22.5ish Scientific/EZ-TEC engines to Bachmann couplers and adding some subtle details to make them less toylike. But I also have some New Blight stuff. So…taking one of the 1/32-ish New Blight engines I have gathered in the last couple years I decided to see if I could kitbash it into something that would work alongside my other 1/22.5 scale items. This utilizes a spare Bachmann cab and sheet styrene stock, overall I am pleasantly surprised by its final appearance. Kinda of a stocky little Porter theme going on. I have I think two other New Blighters I can eventually modify if I chose to update them. So far plan to keep them as spares.

#2

PS I finally got access to a Desktop

#3

Lipstick!

Nice job, I won a similar treasure from Dave a couple of years ago. Runs a lot better without the leading truck/wheels and sometimes will decide on it’s own which way it will go over a switch, the points be dam…'d

Sometimes it’s fun to throw 6 C bats in her and let it run as I ponder …

I can’t post from my phone either.

#4

John, thanks for the reminder to add a lead wt to the pilot :wink:

#5

sort of like rags to riches, nice job, Bill

#6

I got a chuckle out your particular spelling for “New Bright”.

#7

Doing a second New Blight loco this weekend, this one has the trailing wheel version so it’s a mini-mogul Porter

#8

Vic;

I hate to correct you, BUT;

A mogul has a 2-6-0 wheel arrangement, and could have been built by various manufacturers, including “Porter”

If your locomotive has a “Trailing Truck” making it a locomotive with a 2-6-2 wheel arrangement, it would be a “Prairie” locomotive, no-mater what manufacturer constructed it, including Porter.

The wheel arrangement determines the locomotive type name, no-mater how small it is, or who the manufacturer is/was.

There were some cases where different railroad companies named certain locomotives, with different type names, such as; the CPR called their “Texas” types, Selkirks…

I hope this is of some interest, Vick…Happy and Healthy New Year 2019 to you.

Fred Mills

#9

Just a suggestion…

If your “Pilot” wheels (Lead truck) are derailing; YES a bit of weight may help, but be durned sure to check the back-to-back wheel gauge, to make sure it is dead on.

The old Aristo track/wheel gauge is one thing every LS modeler should have if they are using #1 gauge track.

Fred Mills

#10

No problem Fred (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)

#11

Photos, this time before painting so you can see some of the construction ideas.