Converting a Baldwin 2-4-2 LYN to a Baldwin 2-4-4

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Re: Converting a Baldwin 2-4-2 LYN to a Baldwin 2-4-4

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Pipescs wrote: Wed Jul 21, 2021 1:05 pm I have been unsuccessful in convincing Lisa it is for her Mothers Day.
Make her a necklace with a valve as the center piece.
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Back is healing. Therapy today and two more weeks.

Back in the shop for short burst. This is this weeks project.
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Actually proud that it required no purchases being put together from shop scrap.

Expecting a shipment from Loco parts that will give me the parts I need to put in the turret and start with the blower valve and piping to the smoke box.
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You'll have that thing running in no time at this rate!

Going to use a rotary table to cut notches?
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Before mounting the Piping, I have decided to finish the Jacket to preclude having to pull the piping back off later.

Painted the smoke box with Cast Blast rated at 1200 deg. and the Jacket with Dupli-Color engine paint rated at 500 deg.

After admiring a few green engines, I have decided to redo the banding with brass. I ordered a 20 foot by one inch strip from MacMaster Car. Should be here today.
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Re: Converting a Baldwin 2-4-2 LYN to a Baldwin 2-4-4

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Just HAD to have a green engine, huh? Well, it's going to be very nice and I do like the dark green. It's not Southern passenger green, but It'll do.
Wasn't the original Lyn supposed to be green anyway?

My first locomotive, ol' Chloe, was painted tractor colors: The jacket was John Deere green and the domes and tank were International Harvester red. Smoke box and wheels were black, wheels had white painted tire stripes on them, and a wood cab stained medium-to dark brown. Ran the crap out of that thing. When you are freelancing, you can paint it whatever you like! I will fix the boiler on that locomotive and get her back going... someday.
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I really wanted to paint it up like Thomas the Tank Engine. The Kids at MSLS would love it.
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Some of the engines in the UK look great with darker greens, maroon, dark blues.

If it's a freelance engine.... go for it.
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Note that many (?) early 20th century Baldwin locomotives were painted a dark green, not black.
B & W photos don't show that.
Attached is a picture of a recent (2 years ago) restoration of an early Baldwin locomotive.
Green. And beautiful.
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NP317 wrote: Fri Aug 06, 2021 7:50 pm Note that many (?) early 20th century Baldwin locomotives were painted a dark green, not black.
B & W photos don't show that.
Attached is a picture of a recent (2 years ago) restoration of an early Baldwin locomotive.
Green. And beautiful.
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I have a copy of the original Baldwin order for V&T #26, a 1906 era 10-wheeler and the painting calls for "olive green and aluminum." Someone told me that the olive green was so dark it could look black under some lighting conditions.
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Dropped the kids off at school for the semester this weekend.

Now for some time in the shop.

Put on the brass banding for the Jacket this morning.
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Also taking a moment to see if anyone is still producing this type of gate valve? It is a SS Push off/pull on injector valve in 5/16" tubing. Does anyone still produce them?
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Re: Converting a Baldwin 2-4-2 LYN to a Baldwin 2-4-4

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Contact Dave Bortz on this board. He is the owner of SuperScale now. I do believe that he still has these available.
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Re: Converting a Baldwin 2-4-2 LYN to a Baldwin 2-4-4

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The mercer push/pull handle style valves are really neat too. Not sure if Dave is still making them however.

A lot of people use American model engineering ball valves for injector on/off
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