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An Industrial Smokey Joe….

Jake

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Hello, I have been a member for quite sometime, but have never posted anything, so this is me saying hello and also updating you on a project of mine at the moment.

For quite a while now I have been looking at the Hornby Smokey Joe sat on my desk and dreaming up ideas for how I could convert it to a more prototypical tank locomotive. This is the second Smokey Joe I possess and the first has also been industrialised some time ago inspired by an article in RM on industrialising the Hornby Thomas range.

 

Anyway during my numerous trawling's of industrial railway pictures I came across The North Thames Gas board and particularly an image of one of their reduced loading gauge locomotives.

 

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This was the result:

 

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All it needs now is a little matt varnish on those transfers and possibly a red buffer beam. I’m also thinking of fitting a reduced chimney. I thought I had seen more pictures of cabless locomotives in industry, but I can’t seem to turn any up through a Google search, so if anyone knows of any that would be helpful.

 

Jake

 

 

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Jake

No, I have not as of yet come across anything that can be done to improve the chassis, short of a full rebuild. But having tried it on my inglenook It is possible to shunt, you just have to keep the wheels and track absolutely squeaky clean!

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rcmacchipilot

Whats the chasis based on? is it similar to the Hornby class 06 , or do they do something different for the pug range. The 06 chasis has a preety cheap motor in it that you can feel the poles when you turn it. A dcc decoder makes it a tad slower and smoother, but im preety sure that the problem lies with the motor. The end result on your latest blog though looks fantastic. Its a credit to your skills.

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RJS1977

Looking at some of the photos I took at Fawley last w/e, it should be possible to convert the body of SJ into a Hudswell Clarke saddle tank and put it on one of the smaller Bachmann 0-6-0 chassis.....

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Jake

Whats the chasis based on? is it similar to the Hornby class 06 , or do they do something different for the pug range. The 06 chasis has a preety cheap motor in it that you can feel the poles when you turn it. A dcc decoder makes it a tad slower and smoother, but im preety sure that the problem lies with the motor. The end result on your latest blog though looks fantastic. Its a credit to your skills.

 

The chassis is the same cheap one that's in all the Hornby beginner loco's, although I believe smokey joe is heavier than some of the other manifestations, it certainly runs better than some of the other loco's I have owned with the same chassis!

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