Fireless Cooker 0-6-0F

tom yorkeOGR Forum Member

A couple of months ago I purchased a gutted Lionel 0-6-0T for $50. It's really a nice looking loco if you discount the couplers and huge flanges. I was going to convert it to 2 rail, however, I cannot find suitable 42" drivers for it. I decided to rebuild it anyway saving the drivers for future replacement if and when I find some. No photos yet but it is a fairly close copy of Pennsylvania Power & Light Co. #7767 by Porter. The drivers aren't exactly spaced as the prototype but everything else seems to be pretty close. I removed the boiler and smoke unit and fabricated a new tank from plastic tubing. That part is finished along with it's streamlined top fairing and it is mounted to the frame. I am now working on the streamlined side-skirts and running boards. Then the cab will follow. I had to modify the rear of the side-skirts under the cab to cover a spot on the frame that is not prototypical. Still looks good. You don't even notice the "correction". I'll have some photos soon and I will post here. i've always wanted a fireless and this little loco has filled the bill perfectly. More later...

5/15/154:32 PM

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p51OGR Forum Member

I'm curious how this will work.

I'm not into 3-rail at all but I've always pondered making a model of this locomotive in some scale, if only I could find accurate running gear.

This is North American Rayon Co loco # 1. It was used at a mill in Elizabethton, TN until about 1991 (!), never having turned a wheel in tourist service, in it's original owner's use. It's now on display nearby, painted back to its original green paint job. It's the last locomotive in America which operated in interchange with other steam locomotives from another company (ET&WNC #s 207 and 208, better known today as Southern RR #s 630 and 722), as late as 1967...

5/15/154:37 PM

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tom yorkeOGR Forum Member

My loco looks very similar to the NARC's loco, however, mine has streamlining applied to it in the way of side- skirts and a long dome "ridge" along the top of the boiler hiding the sand domes, steam dome and generator. The only other difference is of course the use of slide valves instead of piston and valve gear. It also uses double single phase air compressors. I should have some photos in a couple of days...

5/15/156:23 PM

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p51OGR Forum Member

Tom,

I'm familiar with the one you're talking about and have seen it in person, if it's the one I'm thinking of. Funny how many of these fireless cookers survived, huh?

I agree it's a neat looking locomotive, well deserving of you efforts to model it.

Can't wait to see what your finished model will look like!

5/15/156:32 PM

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FirewoodOGR Forum Member

Great project!

If parts from across the pond aren't a problem, here's a British source for drivers around the size you need:

https://slatersplastikard.com/...7mmScale/7mmLoco.php

5/15/156:50 PM

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tom yorkeOGR Forum Member

Here are some first shots of the loco. Really the only thing left to do is finish the cab and then add a bunch of details and paint it. Looks a little plain Jane right now but once all the details are added and the double cross compound pumps and a few cab details to make it look like the cab is detailed, that will round it out.