[casey wilmunder]

Hi everyone

progress is going good i recived the drwaings
from winn for the cylinders and found some
metiral down in the shop and now starting to
clean off all the tools to start making a
set of cylinder's tomarow im going to send
the person in gremany a email to get the
currency change and price for the frame
and it will be a couple more months till
BBT releases the casted metal truck for
the mason im soon ordering a cow catcher
and cab kit from broson tate models an
since school is almost over i will be able
to do alot in the summer testing is almost
over,i changed my mind of the allgheny i
bought a 7.5 ride on steamer 2-6-2 from
matrix im looking at have the mason at
diamondhed an one or 2 crickets im machin-
the wheels right now and trying to come up
with a good gear ratio,the cricket i have
down to a simple disgn by using the mamond
osolating cylinder and simple baldwin style
domes and striaght stack the boiler of copper
im looking at a 1 1.2 or 1in size boiler with
a butane burner and the cab will be digned to lift
off no lubaicator a needle piont valve as the throttle


well its late i know my spelling is not the greatest
but it is slowly improving over time i will post pics
soon still on dial and dont use the computer at school
much to upload more pics.

sincerely

Casey Wilmunder

 

[FH&PB]

Go, man, go!

 

[Pete Thornton]

Sounds like a great summer project, Casey. Looking forward to seeing the results.

 

[placitassteam]

Casey, I'm glad you got the drawings OK. Sorry I don't have more. Call or email me if you have questions. I think the German laser cut frame comes with the valve rod parts. 'They are the key to making the loco work but will take a little work to get the play out of the system. I can help you on that when you get there.

 

[casey wilmunder]

Hi everyone

winn do i need to send any money for the plans or shiping
on monday i will order the frame soon i will call mo loco
for a set of wheels and the bell and star stanchions,once
i have the frame i will decided on building the boiler my self
or use a accucraft boiler of a custom.

right now first stage

1 order frame

2 assemble frame

3 start of cylinders

4 start pipeing the loco

5 boiler.

and etc

sincerely

Casey Wilmunder

 

[placitassteam]

Casey, No payment needed, I'm happy to help out. Just have fun with it , that will be payment enough. I used a Roundhouse Lady Anne boiler on mine, it is a little bigger in diameter and a couple of inches shorter than I would have liked. If you can build your own that would be great. I am not bold enough to do that.

 

[tacfoley]

Posted By casey wilmunder on 04/08/2008 10:15 PM
...i bought a 7.5 ride on steamer 2-6-2 from
matrix...Casey Wilmunder


Dear Mr Wilmunder - over here we are very keen to have a look at large-scale ride-on live-steam locomotives like this, especially those of a manageable size. Do you mean Maxi-Track, BTW? Never seen anything bigger than an 0-4-2 from them over here, perhaps this is a special for the USA?

Can you post piccies please?
tac
www.ovgrs.org

 

[Belpaire]

tac,

According to the Catfish Hollow website, the Maxitrak Lil' Jo locomotive is available as a 2-6-2 by special order.

http://www.catfish-hollow.com/7inch.htm

I too would like to see pictures since I cannot find any online.

Roger

 

[casey wilmunder]

hi

the matrix steamer is made by the same company that makes the burrel steam tractor for accucraft.
its a 2-6-2 simalar to the 2-6-0 but just a little longer and im buying a fully machined kit
that is not painted and has a injector and the diamonad stack an cow catcher option.i should be
getting it order in the next couple of months just right now negitionating on the options an
price.the mason bogie i have stoped work on because of a trip im going on to D.C i should have
the cylinders done in a couple of weeks.the crickets are going good have a set of wheels done
and now working on the frame and then boiler.

sincerely

Casey Wilmunder

 

[tacfoley]

Roger, I have just spoken to Maxitrak about another matter - the new hand-held controller for our 1/3 scale diesel 'Harlech Castle' - and asked about the 2-6-2 loco.
I also got some kit prices, if you are interested [remember that these are in £ sterling and will need to be multiplied by a factor of 1.98]
L'il Joe loco in 2-6-2 format - £8300.00
Two-truck tender kit - £1215.00
Cow-catcher kit - £378.00
Diamond stack kit - £80.00
The reduction by 17.5% [our sales tax] pays for the shipping stateside.
It comes with a suitable headlight, but without wiring, and I guess that the other Americanisation features like a wood cab would be up to the builder to arrange as the kit version is steel.
Instead of the more usual Hackworth valve gear that we have on our 'Rolumus' [that's right, 'Rolumus' and not 'Romulus' - ours is not qwuite the same], Mr Maxitrak told me that it uses a very interesting version of the Marshall road locomotive gear, but laid down horizontally and working via a set of bell-cranks - should be a very interesting project, and all of us in the Ramsey Miniature Steam Railway Society [RMSRS] here in Cambridgeshire are looking forward to seeing Mr Wilmunder's model in due course.
Best
tac
www.ovgrs.org
Secretary RMSRS

 

[casey wilmunder]

Hi tac

when i talked to the peraon about the
price he said about 13,500 in the sterling
or UK money and that included VAT (value add
tax) i had most of the amercian options i
did not know it had a steel cab but are u
talking about the 2-6-2T because it had a
steel cab with a side tanks.


sincerely

Casey Wilmunder

 

[tacfoley]

Posted By casey wilmunder on 04/16/2008 11:42 PM
Hi tac
when i talked to the peraon about the
price he said about 13,500 in the sterling
or UK money and that included VAT (value add
tax) i had most of the amercian options i
did not know it had a steel cab but are u
talking about the 2-6-2T because it had a
steel cab with a side tanks.
sincerely
Casey Wilmunder




Dear Mr Wilmunder - Sorry, I forgot about the tank loco version, I thought you were talking about the tender version. Apologies.

tac
www.ovgrs.org

 

[casey wilmunder]

hi tac

im getting the same disgn as the 2-6-0
just it will have the added back lead truck
but they are building it from the 2-6-2
tank loco.something like that it has the
wood cab same as the 2-6-0.plus i have
the 8 wheel tender to go with it.

sincerely

Casey Wilmunder