@PRR8976 posted:Dennis,
Even I came out of the woodwork for that one. Very nice purchase. There were plenty of PRR B6 switchers that did not have the "Standard" slope-back tenders and had instead, boxy ones they inherited...so you are historically safe. i noticed what looks like a piece of a Lucky Strike cigarette carton (maybe holding in a coal pile?
Tom
The Lucky Strike is tin I assume from a tobacco can and it was part of the tender shell, so he built it with the litho to the inside. And the litho is about perfect too lol. That is the only piece though the boiler/cab seem to not show any history like that. I have a couple of Walthers catalogs, it's a Walthers boilerfront, domes etc and again the tender trucks and bronze frame are Walthers as well. The way the catalogs depict it, Walthers did not necessarily sell completed super structures, the catalog gave a table of dimensions for various USRA boiler section lengths and also referenced past MR loco drawings for dimensions of the specific railroads loco. You know I end up with some pretty ratty stuff, but this one is clean, square and fairly well built. I am impressed with it honestly. I'm not sure if I will try and put together a Walthers poly drive for it or not, those are really iffy and not known as great runners. These are a couple of piles of Waltehrs polydrive parts I have to play around with.
