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rolling out some projects: The Illinois Central 382

Modeling
#1

Hello LSC! With a pending move coming, it was time to roll out a few projects that have been sitting on the bench. This one has been in the making for about a year now, which might be a record for me, but i’m sure no one here has had this problem lol

This 10 wheeler is based in 1:22-1:24 range. Most might know this one from the famed last run of Casey Jones.

Built on top of an Aristo-Craft Pacific drive, then a new boiler from 2 1/2" conduit, then Bachmann 10 wheeler cab, domes, headlight, shortened tender with passenger car trucks, pilot, and Aristo delton C-16 cylinders. Here is the result so far

still a few little details to finish yet, but almost there. This was a challenging, yet very fun project. I learned a lot doing this one, and a lot to never try again lol

#2

Nice looking engine, Aaron… (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)

#3

Beautiful!

#4

Very nice work… (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)

#5

I like it! That cab roof is very distinctive.

Later,

K

#6

My railway will be the one this engine graces in the near future. She will have onboard battery with Keithco Locolinc RC control. I hope to eventualy take some of the old REA green shorty passenger cars and reletter them for the ICRR. Kind of like the ones MDC did in HO scale on thier shorty passenger cars. I had Aaron design the 382 to handle LGB tight radius curves that my layout has. I love how the pics look so far. Really captures the look of the 382 as seen in pics after rebuild from Casey’s wreck in 1900. The Aristo C16 with a few detail changes makes a nice stand in for Casey’s beloved 2-8-0 he ran prior to marking up to passenger service. Mike

#7

That is one fine looking machine. Will bet that clerestory cab roof was an interesting build/bash.

#8

good looking engine!

If I were doing it I might take two of the Shorty passenger cars and splice em into a long one but I guess that wouldnt work that great on LGB track

#9

Joe Zullo said:

Beautiful!

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#10

I agree Eric, if I had the curves, I would splice 2 shortys to make a longer coach. But for my railway, the shortys are perfect and the engine was built with my Railways requirements in mind.

#11

Forrest Scott Wood said:

That is one fine looking machine. Will bet that clerestory cab roof was an interesting build/bash.

Thank you everyone :smiley: Forrest, it was probably the part I struggled with most in this bash short of the drive modifications. I used Bachmann passenger car roof parts for it, but the slope had to be reworked a lot and filled in to get the right match. still not crazy about the splicing I did, so I may try to touch it up a little bit. I do really like the look of that type of roof though, I did a similar roof on a backdated shay I did, makes it stand out nicely :slight_smile:

#12

Nice work Aaron!

#13

Mr. Gurner at the Casey Jones museum in Water Valley would like to see that loco. That is a good job.

#14

As an update to this thread, the 382 didn’t fair well in shipment and suffered some severe damage. I have gotten the boiler details all reinstalled and am now working on a stronger mounting set up for the rear of the cab to the drive unit. The tender survived ok with only the brake wheel getting broke off. Just like the real 382, this one will rise from the wreckage to run again. Mike

#15