Hello everyone. I've been busy researching parts to scratch-build a few climax locomotives. Both are "class A', a 12 ton vertical boiler and a 15 ton tee boiler (I'll be posting some assembly pics hopefully soon). I purchased some NWSL drive chassis's. They are assentially the powering kit for the Keystone Shay without the Shay specific parts. I had them factory assemble them with 26"/88 spoked wheels for both the Climax's and a couple of Dunkirk's I'm planning on building. My problem lies with the sideframes for the Climax's, I've got some Simplex sideframes from Precision Scale that are going to work great with the Dunkirk's but nothing shy of scratchbuilding 4 pairs for the Climax's. If anyone has any resources to ho scale Climax sideframes or perhaps has the Climax Locomotive book by Oso and thinks that this resource (the book) is worth purchasing in assisting scratch-building these sideframes please let me know. Thanks everyone, hopefully one of these days I'll be able to "give something back" to this helpful sight.
Thanks, Sean Patrick
Thanks, Sean Patrick