In the 80's [?] was some eastern hobby shop that produced a number of Wooten boilers as conversion kits. One of those was the very vintage civil war era B&O camels. He also did more than one type of 1920's or so D&H or similar anthracite road locomotive boiler.
Can't recall the name of the place, but they were very big on Rhino-proof shipping as they touted in every ad.
Best to ya...
Mike Bauers
Milwaukee, Wi, USA
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On Feb 23, 2013, at 6:31 PM, "John Hagen" <sprinthag@...> wrote:
He has two of those bashed 2-8-0¡¯s. one powered, one not. Other than that they look the same.
I still haven¡¯t figured out the boiler casting as it is not the original Mantua 2-8-0 albeit it appears to be variation of that prototype. I think it may very well be highly modified Cary shell with the Wooten fire box and outside ash traps added and part of the front either lopped off or vertically sectioned. By looking at the amount of cast on piping/sander detail it isn¡¯t a Mantua of either era. So far as making that much of a change to a Cary remember that the original, pre-Bowser boiler casting could be relatively soldered which would make the huge firebox addition possible.
But that is just my opinion that I cannot back up as there is no way I can dig out my Cary boilered Mantua mike right now as it is packed away for our move on March 4th. Besides I either bruised or cracked some ribs yesterday (Damned solid ice under the freshly fallen snow) and have serious doubts about getting down the basement stairs. And if I did, the prospect of getting back up them seems highly unlikely right now.
John Hagen
