This is an interesting turn to the thread, but I'm left to wonder: AF steamers were two versions of 0-6-0, an 0-8-0, Reading Atlantic, three pacifics (not counting lettering differences), a NYC hudson and a UP 4-8-4. I'm not counting the later Franklin and Casey Jones 4-4-0s.
It appears to me that you could mount any of the pacific boilers on the AM pacific drive for about the same effort, or less, as replacing the wheels. AM also sells the drive with a four wheel trailing truck and streamlined NYC hudson boiler, so that could have the more common non-streamline AF hudson boiler and tender shell fitted. Even the atlantic could have a cut-down pacific drive less one driver set, fitted. The 4-8-4 boiler might work on the AM 4-8-4 drive, or splice two AM pacific/hudson drives. I realize this is not a "drop on" proposition, much of the AF boiler shell needs to be cut and replaced. The AM drive is probably not correct in wheel size and spacing or valve gear type for any specific conversion. Still, it is a way to get a scale DC version of your favorite AF steamer. I don't recall anyone doing this although lots of folks put SSL&S drives under AF boilers "back in the day". The really adventurous might look at lengthening the SHS consolidation boiler and fitting a trailing truck to make a low-drivered mikado, or splicing two AM pacific drives to make a 4-8-2 mountain type. I have seen that done in hi-rail with a pair of AF pacifics. Pieter E. Roos --- On Mon, 11/15/10, Thomas Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > Dick has a point: If one wants steam, then an old AF > steamer is one low cost possibility. Of course, AF has > at least four railroad specific steamers: the UP Northern, > the Reading Atlantic albeit with extremely low drivers > compared to the prototype, the New Haven Pacific, and the > PRR K5. Not much can be done to rework them to look like a > prototype for another railroad. Well, maybe the > Northern could be redone to look remotely like a Milwaukee > Road S-1, possibly a D&H Northern with smoke lifters, or > maybe a Rock Island Northern. Any of those reworkings > would require a change in the tender. Ooops, I forgot > the NYC Hudson with low drivers. > > That is another problem, the low drivers. The one > that could be kitbashed possibly is the Pacific--I'm not AF > literate--that came out with a C&NW or a MILW emablem on > the tender. It's crude, but one might rework the front > and add detail to the boiler. One thing the tenders AF > used looked more generic than all the Lionel tenders back in > the day when every tender they produced except for those on > switchers which were always PRR switchers had a NYC-look to > them. > > Tom ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
