Re: Can anyone identify this Accucraft engine?
Thanks, Tom. I'll steam it this weekend and see if it runs as good as it looks. Weather permitting. ttfn Brian > Lovely model engine, there. As to your queries: Baldwin used crimson lake > for a cab color. All the D&RG C-16 photos I have seen have sand pipes. If > it looks like RGS No. 9 then that is good as both were Baldwin C-16s. It > is perfectly stock, as far as I can see, and a good model of a c-16, too. > I'd be proud of it. > > Tom Leaton
Re: Can anyone identify this Accucraft engine?
Thanks for the reply, Vance. And I'm familiar with your product line. I did such a great job with your pilot for my Ida that I thought the cab would be a cinch. Suffice to say I need some more woodworking practice before I try it on the C-16. ttfn Brian > What you have is the original, as-built version of the C-16, > characterized by the fluted domes, diamond stack, drop-shadow > lettering on the tender, long pilot, etc. It looks dead stock to me. Mess > with it only if you must. There's a photo of mine, for comparison, on > my web site's main page. > > (Hint: If you do feel the need to mess with it, I make laser-cut > replacement cab and pilot kits for it. See link.) > > best regards, > -Vance-
Re: Can anyone identify this Accucraft engine?
Vance- What you say sounds right. I have compared a photo of the accucraft loco in RGS paint with one in the red cab version. There seems to be a difference. I think it is an illusion caused by the colors and camera angles. The black RGS engine deceptively looks like it has a bigger tender and boiler. I attribute this to a) a different camera perspective and lens length, and b) the metallic paint on the boiler makes it look just a little smaller. That is my guess. ( I like both ) Tom _ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
Re: Can anyone identify this Accucraft engine?
> Baldwin used crimson lake for a cab color. But not until some years after the 42 was built, and only if the tender was painted lake, too. Lake was more of a brown with slightly maroon tint, rather than the somewhat lurid maroon on the Accucraft cab. So, the cab should be black to match the tender, per Baldwin practice, but if you want lake you should mix one part Tuscan red to two parts black. This is all from Jim Willke, a historian who specializes in reconstructing the paint schemes of 19th century locomotives. (He did the color schemes on the locos at Promontory Point National Historical Monument, as well as much work at the Calif. State RR Museum.) -vance- "Nothing is itself without everything else." -- Brian Swimme & Thomas Berry
Re: Can anyone identify this Accucraft engine?
Brian== Lovely model engine, there. As to your queries: Baldwin used crimson lake for a cab color. All the D&RG C-16 photos I have seen have sand pipes. If it looks like RGS No. 9 then that is good as both were Baldwin C-16s. It is perfectly stock, as far as I can see, and a good model of a c-16, too. I'd be proud of it. Tom Leaton _ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
Re: Can anyone identify this Accucraft engine?
Is that Vance Bass saying "mess with it only if you must?" You're not turning into a collector, are you??? (Must be the heat...) Certainly, there is an implied appreciation of history, but if it's not what you want, change it. I've got two locomotives that if left untouched would have "collector" value, but they weren't what I wanted. Now, they are. Will they make me rich when I go to sell them? No. However, since I put the time to make them what I want, I have no incentive to sell them. They're worth far more to me now than they ever would be as a "collector's piece." The live steam hobby is perhaps at its most creative point ever on this side of the pond. No more are people just running what is commercially available. Modifications run the gamut from a simple coat of paint all the way to tearing everything apart and rebuilding it in a different form, if not completely scratchbuilding it. What's more, the price of the locomotive is having less and less of an effect on the amount of modifications. Granted, no one's tearing apart an Aster Big Boy...yet... but we are seeing some of the "cheaper" $3,000 asters being modified and kitbashed. Moral of this missive, don't be afraid to take what you have and make it what you want. There's enough experience on this list to get you over any hump you may encounter along the way. Later, K
Re: Can anyone identify this Accucraft engine?
Brian, What you have is the original, as-built version of the C-16, characterized by the fluted domes, diamond stack, drop-shadow lettering on the tender, long pilot, etc. It looks dead stock to me. Mess with it only if you must. There's a photo of mine, for comparison, on my web site's main page. (Hint: If you do feel the need to mess with it, I make laser-cut replacement cab and pilot kits for it. See link.) best regards, -Vance- Vance Bass FH&PB Railroad Supply Co. 6933 Cherry Hills Loop NE Albuquerque, NM 87111 USA http://www.nmia.com/~vrbass/fhpb/
Can anyone identify this Accucraft engine?
Hello fellow listers. I've been lurking on this group for about a year now and have learned many things. Mostly that there's a lot to learn. I'm exiting lurk mode with an announcement and a question. Firstly, the Copperhead & Prickly Pear RR is a reality. (It was going to be the Copper Ridge & Prickly Pear RR but the acronym didn't look good.) I've just finished laying the last piece of track and will post pics on my website on Sunday. For anyone interested. Secondly, like the subject line says, I just got an Accucraft live steam D&RGW C-16 through an online supplier and it doesn't look right. To me, that is. If anyone here would care to drop by http://home.cogeco.ca/~scott3013/ and let me know what this is I would rest easier. TIA and I'll be steaming soon. Brian Scott
