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Re: [CBQ] Walthers USRA 2-10-2

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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Walthers USRA 2-10-2
From: Nelson Moyer <ku0a@mchsi.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 18:47:10 -0500
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Check the publication index. An article on this was published in The Zypher 
some years ago, but I don't remember when.

Nelson Moyer


On Mar 10, 2014, at 4:23 PM, "Dan Almosnino" <danalm@gte.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> Hi Ken,
>  
> I have done it on an N-Scale Concor 2-10-2.
> I used GHQ Mikado kit (I don’t know if it’s available in HO) for a 
> Worthington feedwater and air pump and I also added some missing pipes.
> Later years photos show also a compressed air reservoir added in front 
> (slightly underneath the boiler).
> The kit can be used to add additional features such as window-top shades. 
> However one additional thing to consider which requires some work is that the 
> prototype M3 came with a USRA tender.
> That tender was modified very soon after delivery for a higher capacity coal 
> load by increasing the height of the bunker walls (check photos) and I did 
> that modification by using styrene pieces.
> I also added DCC sound into the tender.
>  
> One good source of photos that can help you is Otto Perry’s collection of 
> photos currently located in the Denver public library (accessible online).
>  
> Good Luck,
>  
> Dan
>  
>  
>  
>  
> From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Hol Wagner
> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 8:14 AM
> To: CB&Q Group
> Subject: RE: [CBQ] Walthers USRA 2-10-2
>  
>  
> Ken:
>  
> One thing you might want to bear in mind is that all 10 of the Q's class M-3 
> USRA heavy 2-10-2s were leased to the C&S in 1927 following delivery of the 
> first of the class M-4 2-10-4s and thereafter operated exclusively north and 
> south out of Denver until the end of their service careers in the early 1950s.
>  
> Hol
>  
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> From: krmiddle@charter.net
> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 11:09:51 -0400
> Subject: [CBQ] Walthers USRA 2-10-2
> 
>  
> Last fall I purchased a Walthers USRA Heavy 2-10-2, which seems to be a nice 
> locomotive, but appears to be pretty much as the prototypes were built. Has 
> anyone had any experience trying to update it? To me the obvious things to be 
> done would be to move the air pump to the engineer's side, move the power 
> reverse forward and install a feedwater heater on the fireman's side. Has 
> anyone tried this? If so, I would be grateful for any tips or advice anyone 
> might have.
>  
> Thanks and best regards,
>  
> Ken Middleton
> Portage, MI
> krmiddle@charter.net
>  
> 
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