Three Lionel 0-8-0's, Two Kitbashed

colorado hirailerOGR Forum Member

Since no mfr. has done a model of the Great Western #90 Decapod, now on the Strasburg and highly visible, there is no chance GW #60 was gonna show up in an orange box, so one has to take matters into ones own hands. Another poster was looking for domes, brass ones, as I tried to find quickly, with no luck, so I made mine out of styrene tubing capped with a furniture button (found in a craft store). I used a Lionel starter set 0-8-0 as the base, as it was for the 0-8-0 with an

Elesco shown, along with a "stock" 0-8-0 (that may become a Mikado).

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Ted SOGR Forum Member DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

Love the #60! Had the pleasure of watching her switch a mixed train in the snow at Flemington, NJ in the mid-1990s.

I think the Great Western 2-8-0s are better looking than the Decapod but these are all handsome engines. With some well-designed tooling they could represent a number of roads. Weaver is the only manufacturer I know of who made a Consolidation that was not road-specific. They chose the narrow-boiler Baldwin design with a center-mounted headlight, and it wasn't a great runner out of the box IIRC. Now that the economy has improved I hope Lionel or MTH will tool up something like this!

5/30/1511:23 PM