Large Scale Central

Old Mother Hubbard, built from my cupboard

Modeling
#1

Remember this pic?

I had some time to waste this afternoon, so I just started sticking some bits together. Starting with a pretty worn, but only $30 LGB Mogul chassis…

Add some pvc drain/waste pipe, and a firebox section from a bug mauler…

LGB Mogul cab leftover from that box of shtuff I got a while back. A pvc pipe cap and some more bug mauler bits…

Still a long way to go, but this mock-up should help you see where it’s headed…

I need to scrounge a big hauler backhead and a tender, but this isn’t too bad for an hour’s work.

#2

I may have a back head lurking about…
I can appreciate those locos but I was never a very big fan. like the build so far though.

Terry

#3

Looking good Mik.

#4

If Terry can’t find his, I just tossed one in the trash (the back 3" of it anyway). I also have the smokebox door/front if you need it…and a mucked-up tender too.

I should have mentioned, the trash has not gone out yet. I can do some “dumpster diving” if you need it.

#5

Mark, never throw away parts… people can always find a use, somehow, somewhere, lol.

Looks really good Mik.

If you find another of those chassis, pass the info my way would you? I’m in the need of one for construction into a standard gauge Consol.

#6

I hear ya Jason. I have sent several boxes of “trash” to fellow forum members over the last year!

Mik, I found the air-pump too.

#7

I promised myself I’d keep this one simple. Unfortunately, a camelback just doesn’t look right without all the “clutter” in front of the cab on the engineer’s side. I’m not sure what the air pump is from. It was in a box of stuff I forgot I even had. The sand lines are from a Kalamazoo 0-4-0

(http://i397.photobucket.com/albums/pp52/steamnut1917/motherhubbard/P1010001_03.jpg)

Funny thing… that little bit of piping and handrails took longer than sticking the superstructure together

#8

Lookin good mik! i like the green color of the cab and sand dome. What color do youo think you’re gonna go with/

Terry

#9

Terry, I’m torn between the green, and a late 1880s PRR style tuxedo black (with a bunch of gold striping, mineral brown trim, and graphite)

I rarely do black on purpose. So it would be an interesting change. The big problem with going that route is, I’d probably also have to get a few Tuscan red B’mann coaches to go with it :stuck_out_tongue:

#10

Doncha hate it when you do a bunch of work on something, but still have absolutely nothing to show for it? Mark’s backhead is still in the mail, so I spent a few evenings doing other things. First I rough cut the other bits needed to approximate a Wooten firebox. Then I wired the motor leads and figured how to mount the Bachmann weight inside the boiler without shorting them out. It will be lighter than stock LGB, but since the gears are worn, I figure that won’t necessarily be a bad thing. I scrounged a bunch of detail items and put them somewhere I wouldn’t lose them, (then spent another 2 hours looking for them again!) Meanwhile, I ordered a throttle, johnson bar and smokebox washouts - they should be here next week. I also decided on a paint scheme. I just couldn’t (quite) bring myself to do basic black. In anything but direct sunlight it may LOOK black, but the cab, domes, tender, etc will be Polly S PRR Brunswick Green, And Kimmee decided we could even afford to spring for a $3 roll of 1/16" gold stripe tape! (some ebay guy wanted $7 shipping for 1/16" white, so it probably ain’t getting dual tone)

(http://i397.photobucket.com/albums/pp52/steamnut1917/motherhubbard/prr_1223_05.jpg)

Like I said, stuff done, but nothing to show…

#11

Hey Mik, I checked the tracking and it says it’s in Iowa! What are they using to move mail these days, mules? I could have walked to Iowa in less time!

I’ll pm you the number.

I live in a small town but 2 days to go from Minnesota to Iowa? Sheesh.

#12

No worries, Mark. It’ll get here when it gets here.

#13

And so will the mule Mik!

#14

By the time the parts arrive, you could have sent the engine and a flat car to his house to get teh part and bring it back!

#15

I spent today gallivanting anyway. We went with an old family friend to an engine show Orwell, Ohio. I got a new(er) fuel tank for the Oil Pull pup for $10, a Chicago Electric low speed 1/2" drill for $3, a throwout bracket for the steam roller for $1, and found a guy to make the logos for the 20th Century fairly cheaply.

We also got about $20 worth of stuff in door prizes…

#16

Thanks to Mark’s help I now have a few more bits to move this thing forward! An almost Wooten firebox… above the running board, anyway

(http://i397.photobucket.com/albums/pp52/steamnut1917/motherhubbard/P1010015_02.jpg)

Can you tell this is 3 colors? I may have to adjust them a tiny bit.

(http://i397.photobucket.com/albums/pp52/steamnut1917/motherhubbard/P1010018_01.jpg)

SLAMMED! The first order of business on the tender was to get that narrow gauge low slung look. Cutting away the wear plates on the crossmembers and the step on the pivot pin equals a super quick 3/16" lowering job.

(http://i397.photobucket.com/albums/pp52/steamnut1917/motherhubbard/P1010016_02.jpg)

A previous owner had started to cut away the cast in faked coal from the shell, so I finished the job.

(http://i397.photobucket.com/albums/pp52/steamnut1917/motherhubbard/P1010017_01.jpg)

#17

Lookin’ good!

#18

Looking good indeed. Nice proportions.

#19

Thanks for the kind words.

I built the fireman’s (totally inadequate) shelter from some acrylic tonight. With the lowered tender it looks fairly balanced even without the stack cap. (but if anybody has one they want rid of, e-mail me!) I tried to take a pic, but clear plastic just doesn’t photograph all that well, so I guess it will have to be sanded and painted first.

I also got ambitious and added two tender pickups. I think they are LGB, or maybe USA, but they mounted on top of the talgo tang real quick and easy. I suppose that also means I really orta figure out where I put the soldering iron the last time I cleaned up.

#20

Lookin’ Good sir!

I think its time you tackle a garratt.

For the backstory to my Freedom Central, I am having a lumbering conglomerate buy control over the Tonawanda Valley & Cuba; Bradford, Eldred & Cuba; Allegheny Valley; East Broad Top; and Newport & Sherman’s Valley and merging operational control together as the Appalachia Great Eastern. The idea was to unify all the narrow gauge lines to create a competitive link from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh and service New York via Buffalo and Rochester. The scheme dies in 1902 when the Wyman bridge collapses and severs the connection to New York (a real event). A couple years before the collapse, I’m envisioning the unified AGE buying new power based on a radical design used by the PRR shops to build a 2-6-0+0-6-2 fireless shop goat.