0-4-0 / 0-4-2 Porter Drawings

[scalerailmodelling]

Hi all, hopefully this is the right place to ask this,

 

I have looked everywhere online for scale drawings of a little 0-4-0 / 0-4-2 Porter for me to scratch build in 009/hon30

 

this style

 

 

unfortunately I have drawn a blank, can anyone shed any light on dimensions or a source for a scale drawing anywhere please?

 

Thanks in advance! 

 

Tim

[br2975]

Your best bet would be  back issues of Narrow Gauge & Shortline Gazette.

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I don't know whether there is an index to the magazine available anywhere.

[Jeff Smith]

Might have been better in the Narrow Gauge Forum.

 

These Bachmann On30 models may not be based on any particular prototypes and the scales sometimes strayed from 1/48th.

[Nearholmer]

There have been several drawings in NG&SLG over the years (since the 1970s!), I think there are drawings in ‘Steel Rails and Silver Dreams’, and possibly one of the books about the Huntsville & Lake of Bays railway, but these are all rather obscure sources to access, some of the drawings are made from photos anyway, and as said there were different classes/sizes of the locos of the same general form, I think ranging from as small as 6 Ton, certainly 8 Ton, upwards, just as there were with the equivalent Bagnall 0-4-0ST in this country.

 

I built one in H0e in the 1980s, using IIRC a Bachmann N-gauge mechanism and ‘innards’ from a B&O ‘docksider’, and that I simply “eyeball scaled” from photos, and nobody ever complained!

 

PS: Try googling for a Grandt Line 8 Tonner kit in 0n3. There might well be a copy of the instructions for the kit on-line, and they contain a drawing. That model is incredibly accurate, and really fiddle to build!

 

Earwigo!  Whole Grandt Line catalogue, with drawings of several classes https://oscalecentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Grandt-200.pdf

 

 

 

Edited March 1 by Nearholmer

[Nearholmer]

This looks like what I used as a basis https://www.hattons.co.uk/470463/bachmann_usa_52652bac_dockside_0_4_0_116_of_the_santa_fe/stockdetail

 

The wheelbase is too short, which results in a waggy back-end, but the rest is very helpful, because the chassis casting/weight gives. A basis for creating the saddle-tank that is very much the right size and shape. It’s a long time ago, but I think I had to cut away part of the front of the casting to allow for an exposed smoke-box.

 

Joe Works used to make a rather nice kit for a tiny one, which you might still be able to find if you hunt long enough, and Minitrains currently do an 0-6-0ST version, and I wonder whether you could divest that of its middle wheels and its bunker to get to a plausible 0-4-ST ….. it does have an incredibly short wheelbase.
 

This might be good for thought:

 

https://paxton-road.blogspot.com/2017/12/porter-0-6-0st-in-009.html

And, here’s the job done for you!

 

https://www.shapeways.com/product/V2ETGV8BF/009-porter-main-body?optionId=301294845&li=shops

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 1 by Nearholmer

[Nile]

PM sent with drawings.

[scalerailmodelling]

Thanks all, I think I have enough to make a start now 

 

I have a Fleischmann 7000 0-4-0 chassis and an optional pony truck if I go for 0-4-2 which I likely will

 

Thanks again

 

Tim