[CBQ] Dave Beck's HO Scale S3 4-6-2 model.

["Mike Martin via groups.io" <atsf3460=aol.com@groups.io>]

Hi!  Would anyone who knew Dave have any idea exactly what model he used to kitbash his S3 class 4-6-2?  I have the wonderful CD-ROM / DVD that his son Vernon produced and Dave says about his model that it was purchased at a flea market (or possibly a railroad swap meet) in Nebraska and while it came in an LMB box it has a United builder's plate on the bottom of the driver retainer plate.

I've done some serious looking at 4-6-2s produced by Pacific Fast Mail with United as their builder and haven't had any luck figuring out which model was the basis for Dave's S3.  The Southern PS-4 4-6-2 seems like it may have been close.  Dave wrote that the model was purchased in Nebraska and there's a chance that the model had already been modified by the time Dave got his hands on it.  Dave wrote that the dimensions fit the S3 class almost perfectly but he didn't know what prototype the model was.  I am guessing that Dave scratchbuilt the tender completely.

The S3 class has a rather hulking presence and is more along the lines of a Heavy Pacific like a Chessie F-19.  I do have an Akane Heavy Pacific that I originally purchased to convert into a C&EI Heavy Pacific but I may do some looking at it to see if an S3 can be made out of it.

I'm not entirely sure I want to attempt to build an S3 since I gather they were a Lines West locomotive in the latter years of steam but I am intrigued.  If nothing else if we can figure out what Dave used it will add to a knowledge base.

Mike Martin

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