Some of you may recall, that in the past I dabbled in 7/8 scale and as such made some really large locomotives, one; a three truck Shay was converted to 1:20 and became locomotive 117 on the WV&K roster. Shortly after returning from Ric’s Run in November of 2007 I started a conversion of a Class D 4 truck Shay no 9 into WV&K 119…
Shortly thereafter I began the move to new quarters, with more space for railroading, and new better shop facilities, and the conversion was pushed to a back burner. Now a year later, the project has once again come to the front of the que (got new stuff I wanna build and I need the track its sitting on) here’s the hulk sittingon the erecting track…
Retro fitted the front pilot with a KD coupler intended for truck mounting, but its what I had on hand…
An enclosure was made for the speaker, and repairs to the tender drawhead made. the tank itself was cut down somewhat in height and fresh paint applied…including paint to the tender deck…
And the rear sanders being fabricated…
