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Tyco 4-4-0 "General"
This kit came to me as a kid from one of my relatives as a hand-me-down. The kit was partially built and in generally good shape. Not being one for complex kits, after painting them black I basically took the frame, drivers, pilot, cab and tender and put them into my modeled "junk yard". I never really did anything else with it. Until recently. When I decided that I'd like to model the Maryland & Pennsylvania RR*I started to look at what I had and see if there was a way to save some money in the motive power arena. The MA&PA had a couple 4-4-0's, but the boiler and detailing were way different than this Tyco model. Luckily, Cary Locomotive Works makes a cast replacement boiler (*Scroll down to page 9 of the PDF), called "Pittsburgh type", for this model and Bowser still carries it. The boiler is Item #13-32, Pittsburgh 4-4-0 Conversion Boiler Kit for Mantua General Drive, $29.95 & the superdetail kit is #13-510, For use on Cary Pittsburg 4-4-0, $20.95. After taking careful inventory of the Tyco kit, I am missing one TINY bolt for one of the side rods. When I find that I can proceed with this kitbash. * Note: This was a few years ago. I've since started modeling the B&O RR. |
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Here is the original box, and all the parts as I've sorted them. |
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A closeup on all the parts. I cleaned them up really good after years of being in "the junkyard". They had glue and foam and all sorts of dust. Everything seems to be in good order now. |
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The Cary Locomotive Works boiler/cab casting and the superdetail kit. |
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Closeup of boiler/cab & superdetail kit. |
Ben's Workshop - last updated 03/15/2004 - email cpl_clegg@yahoo.com