Hi For quite a long time now I have been waiting for Accucraft in China to start building the promised Denver & South Park Baldwin 2 8 0 locomotives.
Finally they have done it - there are only a limited numbe being made, and mine is in the 1880's (as delivered) colours.
A huge and heavy box arrived this morning, and when opened there were two boxes inside that; the one containing the loco was opened and inside was a large U shaped carrioer for the heavy loco, very well wrapped and secured to the board at the bottom of the carrier. That had to be undone to realease it, and all the tape cut through before it could be seen and admired.
But there was no (huge) Nesmith stack - that was hiding inside the much lighter (but the same size - these loco tenders are virtually the same size as the loco! Long haul tenders indeed.
That was easier to get into, lots of foam and polystyrene but much lighter. The chimmney stack was rertreived from the packing and fiytted in location and the loco was taken outside in to the sunshine for some photo's - here are some of the results.
First a top view of the loco and tender - these locos were the standard Baldwin narrow gauge freight locos and were sold worldwide.
An 'official'' style photo taken at the end of my trestle of the loco and tender.
Another photo in the next message.
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