2-4-0 from 2020 stainz

Bill Barnwell

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Conversion started with removing water tanks from engine cab and replacing with doors, removing side parts off motor housing, replacing cab roof with Kalamazoo roof. Kept original boiler but cut smoke box off and made new one with PVC pipe adding rivet detail using plastic rivets from eBay. Made sand dome and steam dome from PVC fittings. Boiler railings are 1/16" brass hobby wire held off the boiler using the crushable part of a pop rivet and cotter pins, front smoke box grab bar is same. Smoke box front is made from plastic hole plugs. Front # medallion is the poppet from a dental valve and the boiler maker plates are brass rivets bottom out. Cylinders were capped with dental bit package tops and rivet detail was added to look more like Stevenson valves. Added walk ways around the engine using strip styrene and small paper clips with styrene for the air cooling piping. Cow catcher is scratch built using plastruct pieces. Coupler release is held in place using same cotter pin, pop rivet parts that I used on the boiler, and is made using piano wire bent to the proper configuration. Capped it off with a Kadee G scale coupler. Used a aristo craft 2-4-2 Rogers front pilot mainly because it had sprung wheel which helps keep the wheels on the track + it has electrical pickups.
Being as this was suppose to be an old logging engine I opted for the older steam engine look, flared stack which is from a dental tubing retaining fitting. Not sure what brand the bell and light are from but they looked old and might have come from the Kalamazoo roof engine. In the engine there is a voltage reducer board supplying 5vdc to the smoke unit and 2vdc to both the red/yellow flickering LED's lights in the firebox and the headlight LED. Sand dome pull bar is brass wire and the bell rope is twisted electrical wire. Parts on top of the steam dome are just that, what ever I had that looked right. Krylon spray paint was used to color major parts and weathering using acrylics brush on. Lettering was done with a Cameo silhouette. Logging company name is pronounced in southern redneck slang, hint the P.T. stands for pressure treated, sound it out.
The tender is an LGB powered unit and along with the engine having front pilot, drivers and skates pickups tethered electrically to the engine gives over 17" of electrical contact with the rails, it will run on pretty dirty track and pull a bunch of cars. Opted for a wood burner (what else would a lumber Co use), so I replaced the coal load with twigs (logs) same ones I used for my pulpwood car. The tender has an older chuff unit in it something I had form the late 70's. I have build a complete train around this combo which includes 2 log cars, water tank car, pulpwood (favorite) car and work caboose. In the works is a flat car with a WWII bulldozer on it. Fun train and will pretty much go anywhere. I will post pictures of the cars at a later date. Bill
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I would never have guessed it started as an LGB Stainz and tender!
Awesome!
 
Watered down white acrylics if it’s just for a spot, if kind of all over, splotchy, paint it in the evening when dampness is coming in with matte Krylon and it blushes with dampness. Then to get rid of the blush in places I respray when dry or brush on a little acetone on a pariticular spot, Bill
 
Thanks . I love weathering loco's. And yours are what I'm trying to accomplish . Keep sharing all the great pictures.
 
In looking and looking and looking...
Its arather remarkable transformation.

Domes look nicely fitted, love the surviving gold trim, despite the weathering, great pitched roof over cab, and steam chests and boiler look great. To my eye it has a very tiny US mining yard goat feel turned road engine. Wood in the tender looks great. The lead pilot changes everything. Looks like is has design elements of 1880's and 1900's. Very cool.

Im inspired......might have to buy a sacrificial 2015... but then i always chicken out.
 
In looking and looking and looking...
Its arather remarkable transformation.

Domes look nicely fitted, love the surviving gold trim, despite the weathering, great pitched roof over cab, and steam chests and boiler look great. To my eye it has a very tiny US mining yard goat feel turned road engine. Wood in the tender looks great. The lead pilot changes everything. Looks like is has design elements of 1880's and 1900's. Very cool.

Im inspired......might have to buy a sacrificial 2015... but then i always chicken out.
Steve thanks much, yes it's a little hard to start something with something that there is nothing wrong with, but when I got in to G there were no American style anything so if that's what you wanted you tore it up
 
In looking and looking and looking...
Its arather remarkable transformation.

Domes look nicely fitted, love the surviving gold trim, despite the weathering, great pitched roof over cab, and steam chests and boiler look great. To my eye it has a very tiny US mining yard goat feel turned road engine. Wood in the tender looks great. The lead pilot changes everything. Looks like is has design elements of 1880's and 1900's. Very cool.

Im inspired......might have to buy a sacrificial 2015... but then i always chicken out.
2015 are Easier as the cylinders are ok the way they are, of course 2017 better as you get American style head light and cow catcher, go for it. Check out Rosy on this forum I did it from a 2015, thanks for the kind words, Bill
 
I'm inspired......might have to buy a sacrificial 2015... but then i always chicken out.
I'm like you, I can't bear to butcher a working loco. It took ages to steel myself to chop up a Stainz and 3062 coach to make a steam railcar. I keep as many pieces of the donor vehicles intact as I can and find a good home for them. That makes me feel better. I know it is only plastic at the end of the day. Call me an old romantic but I still find beauty in most LGB creations. (cries off-stage " you're an old romantic!").
 
the extent of my bravery and repainting.....
weathering on the grey version is ..... poor. rust is overdone and inconsistent, as one might anticipate with a 15 minute effort.

only real change, is that both cabs had cast in molding removed and replaced with 2 different styles of paneling. one , the tight board wainscoting is prototypical of pics I've seen, the other cab, genuine American cherry, stained a bit darker and glossed. metal footsteps, grab irons, wooden bumpers, some gauges in the cabs, a roof hatch on one, repainting the plated bells with gold leaf paint to look a bit less mirror bright, and, tinting those 5v headlight lamps to yellow, and the cab light to ...red orange (although very wrong, it looks cool at night, like a firebox glow) etc. and, a dawg!

the tender, was made of leftovers...a 2015 tender shell, a HLW flat car, they nest nicely, imho, doesn't really work visually for me, but, I had fun futzing for a couple of hours, cutting real twigs into logs...lanterns.....

even the T version, has a removable bunker and base that is secured via brass strips and screws, just in case i wish to remove it at some point.

both porters were early digital, german made, as I recall $89 US each on one of those trainworld close outs!, LGB was still going strong, and I wanted a mining engine and a "varnish" version to pull a shorty coach.

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Well think I think you pretty much nailed it. Have a soft part in my heart for small and large saddle tank engines. I was never able to get a hold of one of the LGB Porters but they sure are striking. turned another 2020 in to a saddle tank engine and what spurred me on was a picture in Pinterest of Allen Littlefield's engine with a small 1 truck tender, believe person responsible coined it a Glover tender, extra storage for fuel and especially water for small tanked engines. Really like the o-4-2 Forney, looks like a sugar field engine. Thanks for the share, Bill
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oh I love them both

howd you get those small drivers on the top one???
love its slightly longer saddle tank too.
coloring is great

the bottom...a lionel 0-6-0t cab?
its tender is vaguely similar to a real porter I saw in California.
thanks!!!
 
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Steve if you are talking about the top picture of the 0-6-0 it is a picture on an On3 that I found on Pinterest showing a Glover tender, the red one is mine. The cab on mine is from a lionel g scale 0-6-0 and 2/3 tank from aristo 2-4-2 boiler is off pipe and some of is from the lionel as well. Hope this answered your ? If not let me know, thanks again for the share. You should do a post on your 0-4-2 as it sure looks like a Hawaiian sugar can loco
 
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