Scratch built Big Boy

[Carey Williams]

Hello all

Big Boy the largest of the articulated steam engines introduced in 1945 by American Locomotive Co.
Here is scratch built brass O scale model ( builder unknown) construction dates late 1940's - mid 50's..

Beautifully built full suspension, heavy bronze chassis ... akin to Scale Model Railways..very plain slab of bronze milled out for driver blocks , K&D #4, 4 operating lubricators, hand lettering...does not like my 48" radius...
Up hill happy at 6.5 volts 1.7 amps ..down hill 5.5 volts
You can manually push the engine backwards and the wheels all roll ...forward no ..
It was suggested perhaps a Jerry White build ...but does not have his signature drive boxes ...

Lots of Challengers in the vintage O scale world ....not too many Big Boys ( in the pre Max Gray era) .

Cheers Carey
See for Big Boy charging up Sherman Hill

https://youtu.be/4WbTY47qRro

[healey36]

Wow, the skill required to build something like that from nothing is epic.

[up148]

Beautiful locomotive. Love the (partial) coasting drive and the detail is sharper than MG of the day. Would love to see the gearboxes and drive.
Thanks for posting.

The driver tires look much more scale sized than any MG, USH, WS or PSC loco I own or have owned.

[SWrailroader]

Carey,
This is great stuff. Inspiring to someone like me who may be doing some custom building in retirement.

Rob

[bob turner]

While I love the idea of an RC battery powered sound equipped AC-8, I am more charmed by things in O Scale, like this giant. Mine is not entirely scratch-built; it is mostly Lobaugh Challenger, and not powered at all (yet).

One neat thing about Carey's video is tha the thing is moving slowly enough to savor the beauty - another enticing thing is all the background models. We need a video tour!

My iPad got set, somehow, to move to the next video, uncommanded. So it went toan S Scale series of steamers on Carey's underground loop. Worth a glance; I had forgotten about Rex.

Let me look for a Big Boy link . . .

yeah - here. Fifth post down.

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