The long awaited Accucraft Maine Forney is due any day as it has been for some time…this is not that, sorry! “Maybe February”
I modified the WW&F #9 to resemble herself back in the SR&RL days. It required some model making skills. The first thing to tackle was the number plate. we had a blank replica plate, so all that needed doing was to make a brass #9 …er… I mean #6 to match.
I sawed this out of some 0.093" brass plate I had in stock same stuff I made the frame for my 1:20 scale model of #9 from! there is “Emma’s” smoke box above for scale…
I had to open the smoke box door and remove the heat shield to get to the bolts holding the number plate! I flipped the numbers in the headlights. They didnt try to fall out until I flipped em back…that probably says something about the engine’s preferences?
We ordered some lettering from a vinyl shop which I applied to black painted magnetic sheets for the side of the tender tank.
They are a little bigger than Stan’s typical work! I varnished over every thing to blend the “shine” and protect the work just as we had done on the original tank sides. They were actually quite a bit smoother, shinier and blacker than the tank is now. I decided to paint two blank magnetic sheets to cover the rough sides above and below the herald. Because the cab is wood I didnt really think the magnets would stick so I made thin plywood panel, painted them black and applied the number a couple of tacks into the cab frame were enough to unobtrusively hold the panels.
finally the day came. we fired up and collected three SR&RL coaches, Combine 14 (who’s nice clerestory roof burnt off back in the day, her sister coach(11?) sorry I cannot keep the numbers straight in my head, and the Parlor car Rangely
