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Years (decades?) ago I followed here a thread by Kevin Strong documenting revisions to his Americanized Lady Anne 2-6-0. It had lovely photographs and easy to follow instructions, and if I recall correctly it collected a series of "updates" in preparation for a convention (Diamondhead?). A boiler jacket, a tender rebuild, things like that. And Vance Bass had made a similar conversion to a 2-8-0 that was a real treat to see and read about here.

And some time after that those threads evaporated. Now The Train Department offers a bar frame specially adapted to Americanizing the Lady Anne, so it seems that the tedious rotary tool machining that Kevin and Vance described in their conversions isn't needed.

I wonder whether anyone has photographs of Kevin's or Vance's conversions. Please could they be shared here? Google hasn't been helpful. I've searched here and there without luck. Thanks!
 
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Would have to check with Vance but I think that the 2-8-0 was part of a special batch of SRRL 24 parts from RH that Paul Kenny worked up with them. There was something like 6 sets that I was told, maybe more. It included a SRRL 24 tender too. Much of it can be redone today too as parts but RH will not do that or any other major SRRL 24 parts today except for a RTR tender.

Ive been thinking of offering a few more American frame kits including a 2-4-0 just have not had much time for these small projects. Plus the interest in scratch building has really fallen in recent years.
 
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S.B.A. said:
Would you ever consider custom making a 2-8-0 frame, or would you need a certain number of buyers first?
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There is a 'project' being described in Steam-in-the-Garden magazine to scratch-build a 2-8-0 using various off-the-shelf parts. It includes a complete frame cut by Denver Waterjet:

From: Denver Waterjet
3865 N. Highway 16
Denver, NC 28037
Attn: Peyton Smith
(980)222-7515
Peyton@denverwaterjet.com
2LRK280/MF-1Mainframe sides
1LRK280/MF-2Cab Platform
1LRK280/MF-4Boiler Mount Plate
1LRK280/MF-16Rear Plate
1LRK280/MFI-17Front Platform (Inside Frame Vesion Only)
1LRK280/MFO-17Front Platform (Outside Frame Vesion Only)
2LRK280/LW-1Side Rods
1LRK280/LW-2Pilot Truck Frame

You'll need a subscription to get the PDFs.
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I lost all the photos I had taken of the thing, but I was able to recover a couple from the GR article I wrote, so here's the "beauty shot" from that article (Feb. 1999). If I were to start it today, I'd get one of Les' CNC cut frames. It was a right pain to do it with a drill press, Dremel cutoff disk and file.
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The original loco was more or less 1:24 scale. Here it is after a 2013 rebuild to 1:20.3, with larger laser-cut wheels, a Trackside Details shotgun stack, Baldwin tender trucks from Fall River Productions and a laser-cut cab I originally designed for the Accucraft C-16..
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FHPB said:
That project never came to completion, unfortunately. I did mine the hard way (just like Kevin did), by taking the RH frame and drilling and cutting it to fit.
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Well I know of at least 1 full set of parts that were recently built up, and they were with a set of RH cylinders remachined by Tom at Sulpher Springs . Wonder where the rest went. Supposedly they were part of the kit you were working on.. Def a bunch of RH parts you cant get
 
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calcifer said:
By the way, I really like the look of that boiler jacket. It adds some heft to the locomotive.
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Thanks! If I was going to Americanize the Roundhouse, the boiler had to be bigger diameter than the smokebox -- that's just how it's done. Here's the "secret": British 2" copper pipe has an OUTSIDE diameter of 2 inches. US 2" pipe has an INSIDE diameter of 2 inches. I went to a plumbing supply, told them what I was up to, and they cut me some rings approx. 3/4" long from a bit of 2" iron pipe. I slipped them over the boiler, then opened up the RH boiler jacket so it would slip over the spacers. I wrapped wool felt for insulation between the spacers. The RH boiler bands hold the jacket in place, and no one can see the small gap at the bottom.
 
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