Sandford No. 8 - Bachmann 2-8-2 O9 Bash

[2A-Rail]

For once, I'm doing a loco that doesn't include any 3D printed parts, just to practice some skills and use up some items from the spares box.

 

Although I've got a Heywood locomotive built and two more following it (more will be made when I get some of the N-Drive kits), I really fancied going for another Ravenglass and Eskdale locomotive. I had looked at modelling River Esk using a Bachmann 2-8-2 for the chassis, but I didn't get too far with Sketchup and gave up on it. Now that I have Solidworks, I am redrawing the mesh and currently building an accurate model of the loco, tender and tender bogeys.

 

I managed to get two of these chassis at a good price, and as I was using one I had a spare. Rummaging through my spares box resulted in a Triang Caledonian Single body, some tender sides and various OO9 fittings. Original idea was to build a smaller version of the Romney 4-8-2s, but with these parts to hand I've gone for a NG outline 0-8-0, similar in ways to River Irt. Dry placement resulted in this appearing.

 

 

As an excuse for having the locomotive, I'm feeling the railway inherited a American outline 2-8-0 which needed some major repairs, so it was converted in appearance to a African outline 0-8-0. New parts built for the locomotive included the Tender, Cab and front Bufferbeam.

 

The final arrangement I went for currently looks like this.

 

 

 

Further work done since has been making the roof flat (not sure if this was prototypical but I like the idea of it) and creating a driver's seat in the tender. Really not sure if the final locomotive is going to be handsome or ugly, but I guess it'll show when complete. I'm thinking of painting it black all over with a silver smokebox, perhaps lining it in white to smarten it up.

 

Johnny

[2A-Rail]

So far I've got the loco looking like this, have just cut another bufferbeam to size for the back and will be gluing it on tomorrow night. Will give it a coat of primer as well because it generally needs a sand down in areas to remove the leftover parts of the donor bodies. Might add a trailing bogey, but I feel it's not exactly needed on the locomotive.

 

 

Johnny