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Today i was on L&NE F-1 all day detailing it.
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On the firemans side did the main air tank with the piping, steps on the boiler near tha cab.
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Top of the boiler; three safety valves (these had three as did most of the large steam), two thick pipes from the turret down to below the catwalk.
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On the engineers side i put power reverse with the rod and turbo generator near the cab. All this doesn't seem like much, but i have no proper drawings for F-1 and even the Western Maryland version has different piping and there are errors in Western Maryland version drawings. There was a lot of eyeing the stuff before i was able to solder it in.
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The main tank i shaped on my lathe and it came out a little too long, but being a solid brass rod and heavy, i decided to mount this one. I need all the weight i can get on this monster. Piping for that tank turned out to be especially hard, lots of bends in the brass rods and trying to hold everything together for soldering was challenging. I'm still figuring out all the piping as i go along just studying the pictures of real ones and some picks of brass models on internet. I'll have to purchase more 0.020 rods as i've ran out of that and will need it for airlines on the engineers side. I'm probably not even half way done with details on the locomotive. Still to do compressors with their piping and shields, piping under the catwalk on engineers side, injectors on both sides with their piping, detail on sandbox; handrails and hatches.
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KriegslokBR52 said:
Today i was on L&NE F-1 all day detailing it. View attachment 184764
On the firemans side did the main air tank with the piping, steps on the boiler near tha cab.View attachment 184765
Top of the boiler; three safety valves (these had three as did most of the large steam), two thick pipes from the turret down to below the catwalk.View attachment 184766
On the engineers side i put power reverse with the rod and turbo generator near the cab. All this doesn't seem like much, but i have no proper drawings for F-1 and even the Western Maryland version has different piping and there are errors in Western Maryland version drawings. There was a lot of eyeing the stuff before i was able to solder it in. View attachment 184767View attachment 184768View attachment 184769View attachment 184770
The main tank i shaped on my lathe and it came out a little too long, but being a solid brass rod and heavy, i decided to mount this one. I need all the weight i can get on this monster. Piping for that tank turned out to be especially hard, lots of bends in the brass rods and trying to hold everything together for soldering was challenging. I'm still figuring out all the piping as i go along just studying the pictures of real ones and some picks of brass models on internet. I'll have to purchase more 0.020 rods as i've ran out of that and will need it for airlines on the engineers side. I'm probably not even half way done with details on the locomotive. Still to do compressors with their piping and shields, piping under the catwalk on engineers side, injectors on both sides with their piping, detail on sandbox; handrails and hatches. View attachment 184771View attachment 184772
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Today back on the L&NE F-1 decapod. I have installed injectors with piping on both sides. Engineers side got Nathan Non-lifting type 4000 from Cal-Scale #NI-262. This is what the pictures suggested, but information on what was actually on real machines is nonexistent. Normally other side would have different injector under the cab. So i put Lifting injector on firemans side, Precision Scale part #PSC-31312:
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It's empty under the firebox because do to piping being in the way, i'll have to modify the grate area.
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Ash pans will have to be soldered to the firebox, so i can lift the whole boiler/cab in one piece off the main frame when need it. The piping on real F-1 was directed under the ash pans and that makes my work a little more complicated.
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There is still one more pipe to be connected to the injector on firemans side, that goes into the boiler up near the smokebox (hot water?). Another very thick pipe will need to be made on the engineers side-steam from the boiler to the tender booster:
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That thick steam pipe is visible just under the power reverse, it curved and it traveled with the injection water pipe below ash pans and toward the tender. But that's enough for today.
 
Just today got this huge Great Northern W1 made for NJ Custom Brass. The model had some issues, mainly broken off pilot on one side while the pilot on the other side was just hanging by a thread and all bent up. Also guiding truck mount where the screw goes was unsoldered.
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After getting the giant onto my work table, i was able to reshape both pilots and resoldered them back into main frame. Did the same to screw mount for one guiding truck. Here it is after work has been done:
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And some running...sounds almost like a coffee grinder😁
 
kbkchooch said:
The GG1 was 79'6" so yes, it was just over 22 feet longer! How does the model handle curves??
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It does not want to go over mine and my main line curve is around 33-34" radius. The model does have the step ladders screwed in from the bottom, so easy removal in case i want to run it over my layout. Reading someone elses post about same kind of model, the owner had reshaped his step ladders so his W1 could negotiate his 48" curves.
 
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