Picked this up out of Peter K’s estate sale. She was a bit battered, very filthy and had a bent frame, I suspect it was dropped onto a carpet floor at some time. I have adjusted the frame to ease the bind in the front axle and she steams well now. Cleaned up nice as well, someone had used graphite paste on the smokebox area which we all know gets all over everything if its touched. So I spent a couple hours removing that messy stuff from the model. I am fitting working lights on both engine and tender(not shown). The newer Spectrum receiver that was fitted(no transmitter) linked up with my RCS palm size controller I use on my Pearse W&L Earl. I will be putting Chessie System decals on the tender and a road number on the cab with vinyl decals a friend cut for me. This will be my wife’s engine to run when she goes to a steam up with me and Chessie is her favorite railroad. If I can figure out how to completely remove the boiler from the frame, I will see if I can fully straighten the bent in the frame. Its a “T” flue boiler, there is no smokebox on this model. The water goes all the way to the smoke box door. SO I cannot figure out how to deal with the steam line that goes down the flue and out the bottom of the “T” to the cylinders. For now she sits level on the rails and the bind in the front axle is gone. But you can see the pilot beam and deck is shoved in on one side compared to the other when looking at the cylinders to pilot deck gap. Not a common model, Ian Pearse says around 40 were made back in the mid/late 1990’s. I have ads in a few old issues of Steam in the Garden magazine. Cheers. Mike and Michele T
