Commission: What-if GWR 2-10-2t…
This is a beast! A ‘what if’ GWR heavy freight tank locomotive in OO gauge. I have had a great deal of fun dreaming this up with my customer, the results speak for themselves…
I’m not always a fan of this sort of thing, it’s all too easy to become whimsical. I think in this case there is just a sliver of a thread of plausible reality - although I suspect water capacity may be a little low and perhaps she’d really have been a 2-10-4t. A true old fashioned ‘kit bash’ she combines an old Lima King boiler with Hornby 28xx frames and motion, Hornby 42xx cab and bunker with a 9F chassis with pony trucks cobbled from various sources. Finally stretched and smoothed, scratch-built detail and a good dose of skill to become ‘one’ under the unifying GWR green paint.
If you would like to commission your own model, be it a scratchbuild like this, an etched kit or a modification to a ready to run model - or even a totally blank canvas - get in touch, I’m happy to discuss a project and provide a fixed price proposal where possible, and I enjoy creating these sorts of ‘dream’ models for customers. Whilst this has a GWR stamp of sensibility is it really any different from the Paddington diesel or Empress of a few years ago?
Bringing together familiar elements, blending them with my engineering experience and artists eye, hopefully believable and attractive, clearly of my hand to those who follow the blog but also, just ‘nice’ to look at…
We are into the second week of the holiday and daily blogging has continued - there has been progress on commission work as well as my own projects so hopefully things will continue. I’ve an idea or two for some short videos and a number of projects are progressing over the bench. Thank you to you all for the support, should you wish to ‘buy me a coffee’ every little bit I’d appreciated, it’s easy to do and the ‘commission’ they take is less than PayPal. Thank you again, and until next time as always, more soon…
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"I suspect water capacity may be a little low"
ReplyDeleteWell, not necessarily. Try to imagine that an additional water tank is inside the frame.
Less common perhaps on British mainline steam, but perhaps... equally, perhaps typical of GWR behemoths, this was a failure? A requirement forced upon Churchward rather than from him?
DeleteWell, it was only a sudden idea of mine, probably too much influenced by continental design practices. Nevertheless, there were lots of heavy 2-10-2 tank locomotives operating on the Continent. For all of them let's mention at least the German series 84 and 95. I don't remember anyone criticizing them for insufficient water tank volumes. Amounts of water in their tanks corresponded to the fact that water cranes used to be located some 30–50 km from each other, which was more than enough even on the steepest mountain lines.
ReplyDeleteBTW, probably the heaviest European tank locomotives were made in 1931 by the Polish manufacturer Cegielski for Bulgarian State Railways (БДЖ = BDZh), where they received class 46. Their job was to haul heavy coal trains on inclines up to 27‰. They weighed approx. 150 t and their wheel arrangement was 2-12-4. Two of them are preserved, see here to compare:
Deletehttps://www.lokomotivy.net/zobraz2.php?rada=gbg_parni_l&loko=460301
Incredible! Thank you for the reflection…
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