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Ben I grew up in Cisco and Eastland Tx on the T&P. Where did you live?
Tom Stamey
gutirrez_buffyParticipantI used the clear plastic forks to make smoke stack lights for my T&P 2-10-4’s. Cut off a spike and mount it in a variable speed device and use a very fine file and make the housing and light portion. Drill a small hole in the bottom and cement a brass wire in it and solder mount it on the booster exhaust. It looks very good..
gutirrez_buffyParticipantI would suggest the box would contain car truck bearings, oil and cotton waste to use in cars picked up in wrecks. That is just a guess.
gutirrez_buffyParticipantitem sold.
gutirrez_buffyParticipantMP doghouses were the same as T&P’s, Brass doghouses were offered by Pecos River Brass when they built the T&P 2-10-4’s. I bought a few to use on some 2-8-2 USRA’s I had converted to oil. I think I still have one left.
The Precision Scale doghouse was a D&RGW wood doghouse.
gutirrez_buffyParticipantCoal burners are a bad engine to use for original colors in most photos. Only when they came out of the paint shop were the real colors obvious. Coal soot gets all over everything, changes colors or covers them completely. So, if you paint you can vary the smokebox and firebox colors and no one can call you wrong. I mixed Scalecoat grafite with varying amounts of #10 black and some loco black colors. Even mixed some silver with #10 black.
Rods: some roads such as T&P tried to keep them clean but most did not. I am remembering many photos of H K Vollrath in Shreveport as examples and Roger Plummer also showing clean rods. But, there are some pictures of some not so clean rods too. And, some roads such as the DM&IR and the Santa Fe painted their rods white. While the DM&IR kept them fairly presentable the Santa Fe did not.
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