Back is healing. Therapy today and two more weeks.
Back in the shop for short burst. This is this weeks project.
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.
Charlie Pipes
Mid-South Live Steamers
Current Projects:
Scratch Built 3 3/4 scale 0-4-4 Forney
Little Engines American
20 Ton Shay (Castings and Plans Purchased for future)
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.
Charlie Pipes
Mid-South Live Steamers
Current Projects:
Scratch Built 3 3/4 scale 0-4-4 Forney
Little Engines American
20 Ton Shay (Castings and Plans Purchased for future)
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.
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.
RussN
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.
RussN
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.
Greg Lewis, Prop.
Eyeball Engineering — Home of the dull toolbit.
Our motto: "That looks about right."
Celebrating 35 years of turning perfectly good metal into bits of useless scrap.
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.
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?
Charlie Pipes
Mid-South Live Steamers
Current Projects:
Scratch Built 3 3/4 scale 0-4-4 Forney
Little Engines American
20 Ton Shay (Castings and Plans Purchased for future)