It was common on suburban routes in England and Australia to operate tenderless tank locomotives for passenger services. Sometime ago, I modified a Bachmann Annie chassis to a Pacific 4-6-2 configuration. This was after I had already modified the same donor chassis to a 4-4-2 Atlantic type drive. The drive sat forlornly awaiting inspiration and enthusiasm to peak.
Well, today that enthusiasm must have received an adrenalin overdose as I got started on the Pacific drive to make something out of it. Taking a Bachmann Annie ‘steel’ cab and the back half of a Heritage Express tender, I concocted a cab with attached bunker, similar to a Forney configuration. The rear side window was opened out to form a door cutout on each side of the cab.
Boiler will be made out of several hairspray cans (after the wife has emptied them of their contents). I have used this method previously. I slip several cans inside each other to give a reasonable thickness. Domes, etc., are then added. The smokebox was removed from a Heritage Express metal boiler (rescued from the garbage bin) and will be attached. Although this method does give a slightly slim looking boiler, it has turned out alright in the past. A mockup of the construction has potential.
Was just showing that the big boys squeezed fireboxes/grates/ashpans in between drivers too. With that first link to the drawing giving an idea what the arrangement down there was.
