After falling in love with all the Decauville locos posted in the recent month
I thought I might build one......sort of.......
After staring at them I thought I might be able to use a Bachmann Gas mechanical (On30) as the basis.
I milled most of the frame away from the Gas/mech.
Made a boiler (cover).
And fabricated the cab.
The cab is a little long for the proportions to be right :(
Will see if I can even come close on the piston and valve linkages.
The saddle tanks will be solid brass, that should make up for the weight loss.
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with two locos going updates on this may be slow.
-Marty
How can you start two loco builds at almost the same time? You are NUTS! -- Russ
Kewl. When you get to making the pistons, valves and such, how about a second pair? ::) ;).....though mine don't need to be working......but it is what is holding up my O&K-Porter-Decauville abandoned loco. ;) ;D
MR
send me a drawing (that I can open w/o cad) be glad to make some up.
-Mj
Quotemy O&K-Porter-Decauville abandoned loco
That must have been an orgie.........