Wow been a very long time since I've been on here. Probably close to 2 years. Anyway, here is a pic of my C&O 2-8-2 which was one of the last projects I did before going on break. I plan on fitting it with a Bachmann Long Vanderbuilt tender in the future. I took a Rivarossi C&O 4-6-2 and mounted the shell on a IHC 2-8-2 Premeir series chassis. Took the old Rivarossi tender and put the circuit bored inside it. Since i took my break i've bought a dremel tool which should make adding a better draw bar to it(right now just uses a piece of wire glued in a U Shape on the tender).
In the pic below you can see my C&O 4-6-2 on the left(i did nothing to it) and the C&O 2-8-2 I did on the right(painted and lettered by me).
(http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee31/BaltoOhioRRFan/K18K3.jpg)
In this one is the engine with 3 roundhouse Coaches(Yes i know that it didn't really pull those, but at the time i took the pic i wanted to sneak them into a shot haha)
(http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee31/BaltoOhioRRFan/62010/COK3Train.jpg)
I'll post more things i've painted/kitbashed/etc later if anyone is interested.
You can barly tell the diverence the drivers are smaller on your conversion.
from the pics i based it on. there is very little diffrence between the Mikados and the Pacifics that i chose to do, if i remember right, the 4-6-2 is a K3 and the 2-8-2 is a K18....i might have reveresed those numbers though. i don't have my book handy at the moment.
Yeah, the Pacific would be an F-18, the Mike a K-3.
thought so lol