Unpublished Lima 0-4-0 US dock switcher, level crossing markings and inclusive mobility in Brunel

[@TRENINI-AEREI-AUTOMODELLI]

nice old Lima dear Patrick 👍👍👍👍👍👍😊😊😊😊😊😊🚂🚂🚂🚂

[@patricksmodels]

@@TRENINI-AEREI-AUTOMODELLI thanks Alberto

[@WWIIREBEL]

That looks exactly like the Mantua "Little Joe" Tanker locomotive!. I love this design, especially for smaller radius curves. Nice runners too.

[@patricksmodels]

@@WWIIREBEL I read somewhere that Lima actually copied the Mantua moulding. It's powered by the usual very reliable Lima G type pancake motor. What type of motor does the Mantua have?

[@WWIIREBEL]

@@patricksmodels The mantua uses an open frame "Pittmann" motor. They are very strong running and super reliable. I've been able to pull up to 45 metal-cast freight cars with mine. The Mantua version has a very nice and heavy metal body/shell and it gets great traction because of this.

[@patricksmodels]

@@WWIIREBEL sounds like a great little engine. The lack of weight of the Lima is it's major drawback. I made a comparative shunting video yesterday, I'll publish it in the next days.

[@jetmec]

For markings, find a local port and use there markings form the sixty's

[@attuslebeard5133]

Yours is the deluxe version with the crosshead and slide bars - the version without seems more common but a bit too toylike. I think the main things I would do to it are to cut off the rear roof overhang and paint over the brass/copper area between the wheels. Adding buffers and red buffer beam will definitely make it more European (a mini USATC S100, FS GR831).

[@patricksmodels]

@@attuslebeard5133 I've been told the simplified version was included in starter sets, while the version sold on it's own had the crosshead and slide bars. I've been thinking about adding buffer bars and buffers, what would you do with the front footplates?

[@attuslebeard5133]

@@patricksmodels Ah yes that would probably explain why there's lots of the simpler ones in various colours. I think the T shaped footplate looks ok - it is similar to that on the S100

[@CZ350tuner]

Loco body shells that I've used on the Lima American Porter 0-4-0T coal dust fuelled shunter: Welso Brimtoy LNER class Y4 clockwork 0-4-0T loco. Triang R.657 / R.660 ""Top Tank" clockwork loco. Hornby "Continental" 0-4-0T clockwork loco . The platform, at the front, has to be removed in order to make the body shells fit.

[@patricksmodels]

@@CZ350tuner so the original locomotive was coal dust fired! That's why it doesn't have an open bunker. Thanks for this information!

[@CZ350tuner]

@@patricksmodels The last one was scrapped in the 1950's.. From what I've read,, originally, they were built in the 1920's as a tender loco. They were converted during the 1930's / 1940's,, into tank locos with a screw feed for coal dust into the firebox. The loco has no fireman.

[@patricksmodels]

@@CZ350tuner so they were converted from the likes of the 0-4-0 tender locomotive with the sloping tender that was also mass produced by Lima. I'll look them up, have you got any links to suggest?

[@patricksmodels]

@@CZ350tuner at this point I'm considering leaving it original, I'll just add an engine number on the tanks and we'll say that the Brunel Railway is testing a new locomotive that can make use of the brown coal dust from the local coal mines.