Kitbashing WBB Baldwin 4-6-0??

Why would you want to?  Lionel made scale ten wheelers and moguls  both with and without TMCC. Perfect for your branchline operation. 

Kurt         

I hope to get one in the future but to do something different.  I plan to totally weather it, make it look like it is out of service and used for parts.  I will also repaint it into my own road name, the Rapids and Great Lakes, that formed into the Michigan and Great Lakes.

The one issue I see having is to make it look like the tender is empty, with no coal in it.  

I repainted one in all black to replicate my great Grandfathers B&O locomotive. I had intentions of making some mods but was afraid that the project would grow to the point it would become another stalled project. Replacing the molded on handrails would be a good start. Moving the headlight can be done but it would require more work as IIRC the headlight is cast to the boiler.

I still may buy another and really strip the boiler of handrails and running boards and rework to match a prototype loco. The side rods are passable but the loco could benefit from an upgrade here. (bet WbB offers a Spectrum version with many of these mods)

It runs very well, I have two, and the price is right so it's a good choice to modify.

Funny you should ask...I am about to go to the shop to start work on the appearance

of my Southern WBB 4-6-0 in which that I just completed a TMCC upgrade (love those

plastic tenders!). Actually my changes to this loco are only gong to involve esthetics -

I am going to tone down the circus train-like interpretation of a Southern green steamer

paint job, but:

I have another WBB Ten-wheeler that is next on the to-do list: ERR, new (actually

old die-cast), more correct, smaller tender to be adapted, relocation of headlight and generator, add headlight visor (may do that to the Southern, above)...to resemble more closely an AT&N (look it up) 4-6-0 from the 1920's/30's.

So I will learn about the workings of the WBB 4-6-0 loco, and changing it.

And as to "why bother?" above, all I can say is "why not?". Just because it's a

generic Baldwin Ten-Wheeler does not mean it's the correct Ten-Wheeler. 

Anyway, changing locomotives is actually more fun than running them.

I made a new tender for mine by cutting down the coal pile on a Lionel 0-8-0 tender. I am working on a period tender made from a Lionel general, but have been stalled some of the deck work and fitting appropriate trucks.

I think Lee Willis kit bashed one or two of them.  I remeber him cutting down the cab i don't remember what other changes he made.  Try searching for his posts.