The Northerns

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The Northerns 4 of the Northerns fresh out of the shop. A fellow modeler takes 2 Aristo Pacific's and Bashes them into a Northern and keeps the leftover parts for payment. Mine is 3763 and is pulling like a champ. Most cars to date has be 88 with a 3% grade or 11 heavyweight passenger cars with out a struggle. Min. dia curve is 8' not bad. Northern%20X%204-4.jpg Northern%20X%204-13.jpg Northern%20X%204-4.jpg Northern%20X%204-13.jpg
 
Very nice....
 
Damn. Drool in the keyboard again.
 
j garry said:
A fellow modeler takes 2 Aristo Pacific's and Bashes them into a Northern and keeps the leftover parts for payment.
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That sounds like a good deal judging by the quality of the Conversion. Wonder what he does with the leftover bits? Atlantics or 4-4-0's perhaps?
JonD
 
JonD, He helps others that need odds and ends for repairs and is always trying to come up with something new. Here is a Lionel Atlantic he took from me and using a Aristo 8 wheel block turned it into a sweet 2-8-0 medium another nice puller. Jack
 

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Neil Robinson said:
Indeed, most impressive.
I'm curious as to why he uses Pacifics rather than Mikados or Consolidations as a basis for the Northerns.
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The Aristo pacific had larger wheels at a wider spacing than the 8-wheel mikado/consolidation/mallet block - overall they take up almost exactly the same space. More work, but stretching the pacific block probably makes for a more convincing high-stepping Northern. And the bones of an atlantic left over..

J.
 
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