2-8-0 G1

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Be kinda like starting from beyond scratch . . .

Ed King
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Subject: Re: 2-8-0 G1


> How much effort would be required to modify the inexpensive Tyco
Chattanooga
> Choo Choo locomotive into one of the N&W 2-8-0 units, either a G or a W? I
> have tried to pull up pictures of these on a N&W photo archive hosted at
VT
> but many of the links do not work, including some for the 2-8-0 classes. I
> have two of these locos left over from old train sets and would not mind
> painting them and detailing them to fit N&W prototypes if possible.
>
> Bob Welsh
>
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> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 10:23 AM
> Subject: RE: 2-8-0 G1
>
>
> > I purchased my G-1 from Ed Painter a couple of years ago.  It is by Alco
> > Models, but was actually manufactured by ROK-AM in Korea (They
> manufactured
> > models for a number of different importers).  Mine is an excellent
runner
> > (not very powerful, but the speed is prototypically slow, and these
> engines
> > would be mostly pulling short trains on branch lines anyway).  Tony is
> > right, it is in a long blue box.  It seems to have been modeled from the
> > engine on display in Bluefield, as the appliances match that engine (two
> > "simple" air pumps on the left side).  In some of the G-1 photos you
see,
> > the engine has a single "simple" air pump on the left side.
> >
> > The G-1 is one of my favorite engines (My model railroad is to be based
on
> > the NRH&W).  If BLI can be persuaded to make a 2-8-0, the G-1 gets my
vote
> > (but I am wondering if they can fit the sound system in that little
> tender -
> > I think it is 3,000 gallon?)
> >
> > NWSL did a W-2 way back when. Modernized with Baker valve gear.  Don't
> know
> > if anyone else has done either of these 2-8-0's.
> >
> > John Simmons
> >
> >
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> > Subject: Re: 2-8-0 G1
> >
> >
> > Tony,
> >
> > Alco Models did the G-1.  It was one of the last locomotives that they
> > did and it is hit and miss as to the running qualities.  Some of the
> > frames were built off square and need to be rebuilt.
> >
> > Kurt S. Kramke MMR
> >
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