Sunset 2-8-2- Mikado

A Sunset 2-8-2 Mikado sitting on a Diamond scale turntable.

This was my very first brass engine, purchased before the price of brass engines got stupid. I paid $140.00 CDN (That’s about $94 in US dollars) for this engine in 1993. You would never find a deal like that now.

I heavily reworked the Diamond Scale turntable, with ball bearings and finer detail. They look nice if you put the work into them. It’s not yet motorized; I plan on getting to that soon. I don’t intend on indexing it, as the real ones weren’t and it’s close enough to the operator to see it clearly.

Image Copyright © Tim Warris

Posted by: | 11-04-2004 | 09:11 AM
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