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

["Kenneth Middleton" <krmiddle@charter.net>]

Thanks, Dan. Sounds like the worst part of the Walthers engine will be trying 
to get it apart.

Best regards,

Ken Middleton
Portage, MI
krmiddle@charter.net
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dan Almosnino 
  To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 5:23 PM
  Subject: RE: [CBQ] Walthers USRA 2-10-2


    

  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
   


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  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