LGB 2045 RhB 2/4 Conversion

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I've always liked boxy locos and the RhB 2/4 (LGB 2045) electric loco is a good example. My railway has no overhead and wanting an old style diesel I decided to convert an LGB 2045 which I had bought secondhand into a diesel-electric Bo-Bo. The 2045 underframe was discarded (it was full of holes drilled in it to let a speaker let noise out anyway!) and the body mounted on two powered LGB tender underframes as bogies. A side window was replaced with a radiator from an LGB White Pass loco. The centre section of the roof is from an LGB 3062 coach. It looks a bit quirky with the cab roof profile different from the middle but the Woodhead route 1500 volt EM2's were a bit like this. The loco has a working fan motor on the roof which came from a computer.

It is not popular with the Drivers because of alleged draughty cabs which may be due to the fact that to accommodate the raised motor section of the tender undeframes it does not possess cab floors!Boxcab Bo-Bo (2).jpg
 

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Fantastic job sir !!
 
Yes, more pics please.
 
TonyMP52 said:
I've always liked boxy locos and the RhB 2/4 (LGB 2045) electric loco is a good example. My railway has no overhead and wanting an old style diesel I decided to convert an LGB 2045 which I had bought secondhand into a diesel-electric Bo-Bo. The 2045 underframe was discarded (it was full of holes drilled in it to let a speaker let noise out anyway!) and the body mounted on two powered LGB tender underframes as bogies. A side window was replaced with a radiator from an LGB White Pass loco. The centre section of the roof is from an LGB 3062 coach. It looks a bit quirky with the cab roof profile different from the middle but the Woodhead route 1500 volt EM2's were a bit like this. The loco has a working fan motor on the roof which came from a computer.

It is not popular with the Drivers because of alleged draughty cabs which may be due to the fact that to accommodate the raised motor section of the tender undeframes it does not possess cab floors!View attachment 293456
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Very inspiring 701192BA-171A-4575-96C0-7EF4C3E023C4.jpeg
Made me immediately think of the Ford Works shunter that is now preserved at the K&ESR
 
thats quite good indeed...
bogies are from the 2015 style LGB tender, nes pas?
 
stevedenver said:
thats quite good indeed...
bogies are from the 2015 style LGB tender, nes pas?
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Yes indeed - they are from the 2015 loco. I bought later version ones as spares so they have a speaker grill moulded into them. I had to cover these with plastic sheet so they weren't exposed as the loco curved.
 
Flying15 said:
Probably the only bogie box cab , but LMS 1832 which I think was built on an 0-6-0T chassis was also a box cab and one of the earliest diesels on a mainline railway in the ukView attachment 294009
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Oh yes, I'd forgotten about that disaster - something about lack of springing somewhere led to broken drive shafts I think.

Oh yes, the wheels are sprung but the motor drive shaft isn't
 
Rhinochugger said:
I believe that's the only actual boxcab that worked in the UK :nod::nod:
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According to Brian Webb in "The British Internal Combustion Locomotive, 1894-1940" there were three of these built in 1932. For such early units they seem to have been very successful
 
philg said:
According to Brian Webb in "The British Internal Combustion Locomotive, 1894-1940" there were three of these built in 1932. For such early units they seem to have been very successful
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Yeah, I probably should have said 'class' of loco :nod::nod::nod::nod: - built by BTH

But I had forgotten about the LMS 1831 unsuccessful beast :shake::shake:
 
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