G1MRA Dee locomotive
Greetings list! Having just received my first copy of the G1MRA Newsletter and Journal, I am very impressed with the project locomotive Dee a S.E. C.R. 4-4-0 Passenger locomotive. I will be ordering the construction book soon. I am interested to know if there are any other USA builders of this model? If so, did you buy the rough castings from British suppliers? Or are there any US sources for the rough castings? It is a treat to me to finally find a model engineering project model in No. 1 gauge, and something more than shake it out of the box! It is doubly a treat to find that the model is NOT a teakettle! Nice as they are, some of us want to build mainline locomotives. (Just a personal preference of mine, but I don't consider anything with less than six wheels to be a locomotive. Four wheeled thingies are, to me, a piece of construction equipment) Any comments would be welcome! Keith Taylor
Re: Accucraft 0-6-2
On Saturday, October 20, 2001, at 08:14 pm, VR Bass wrote: Hey, all, here's a bit of news. Garden Railway Supply in the UK shows an unpainted brass Accucraft 0-6-2T in their catalogue. It's called Superior, based on an engine preserved at the Whipsnade Zoo. The picture's a bit grainy, but it appears to be an outside-frame engine with Ruby cylinders and smokebox. There's something that could be bashed into some interesting variations! Not Ruby cylinders Vance!! These are larger Pearse type cylinders making it a much more powerful locomotive than Ruby. I have a pic of it in the brass if anyone fancies a look Yours Aye Tag Gorton Longlands Western Railway Trematon office Cornwall ICQ 135971280
Re: G1MRA Dee locomotive
The Project loco has been a mainstay of the G1MRA for many years. It is the predecessor to the Dee. It fits your description as not a tea kettle by being a 0-6-0. I am almost half way through building mine. My understanding is that you really should have the Project book if you're going to build a Dee, as the book is written with the assumption that you have build a Project loco or at least can look up techniques in the book. It's one you should have anyway, a classic. regards, -vance- Vance Bass Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Small-scale live steam resources: http://www.nmia.com/~vrbass
