Gallery – N&W class G1 (English captions)

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- N&W class G1 Consolidation – built in 1897 -

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A pretty small Consolidation, this N&W class G1 which needs however, a decoder still. Maybe also some repairs.

A little bit different view point, but very interesting, because now the big tender comes so properly into the point of vision. A digitization should well succeed with this large tender!

One of the prototypes as motive of a postcard - Norfolk and Western class G1 no. 7, here equipped still with an oil lamp! - Courtesy Mike Pierry.

One more of these small G1 railroad engines which was sold to a chemicals company for the internal work traffic. - Courtesy Mike Pierry.

A quite normal process in USA, buy and sell of locomotives. - Courtesy Mike Pierry.

And that is the G1 #7 today, unfortunately. Come here maybe one day again better times? - Copyright www.rgusrail.com. Do not re-use without author's permission.

Or a look once again on the whole locomotive, but with it becomes also not better. - Courtesy Mike Pierry.

Now also I received this picture of N&W class G1 no.6 from the N&W Historical Society - shot in 1948. And this was taken even five years before end of service. (NWHS collection)

The first step - power feeders at isolated wheels for eight wheel power pick-up using Kadee coupler center springs. Movable truck side frames support a permanent contact of all wheels on rails.

The arrangement of the electronic components on this locomotive: decoder and a good-sized speaker in the tender ...

... and only the ''keep-alive-unit'', the capacitor block in the boiler. A reasonable speaker was not to accommodate here - and this is my preferred lacation!

Frame of the very well running model. The original motor and gear were modified already or were completely replaced and ...

... an additional idler wheel has been inserted for an enlarged gear reduction. But, all parts were fixed by an absolutely unorthodox method - with synthetic resin!

Even if I wanted to avoid it, I had to add the locomotive for power pickup. Difficult preparations for mounting inside-mounted power feeders - because the wheel sets not were to dismount for this work!

These are the guides for the power pick-up contacts, four small brass bolts which are pressed by light feather pressure against the insides of the isolated wheel rims. Sorry, in picture only one of four contact bolts is inserted.

Here the wheel contacts are visible in the built-in state. I think that the contact bolts should be well visible above at inner sides of the wheel rims.

This is now a view on underside with the lower cover sheet of frame. No contact wires how spider legs which cover the whole underside of frame!

And this is a welcome spillover effect - the locomotive runs alone without the need of a coupled tender. Something, that brass models never can do without modifications!

Almost midnight - and ready! Tomorrow the attempt of better photos.

Now again with daylight! However, do you see big changes compared with the pictures at the beginning? Can you not, of course ...

... because the essential changes have happened inside. Except of front lamp and classifikation lights, they are lightened now!

Here I have set directly together the gigantic pressure tank and the small locomotive. What for an immense difference in size!

Could this be the final picture? The locomotive received back also its ''golden'' bell which was painted black as the whole model.

Still before every other changing the question was, which parts must be added here onto back head? No, that can't remain so clean!

The same picture again, but with an enlarged area back side of firebox. Do you recognize also two different types of staybolts?

A more sketch of Locomotive Cyclopedia 1922 of exactly that fire door which is used on the G1, a ''Franklin Butterfly type no. 8 fire door''.

I found a brass part of this fire door and so I could start the last modification of my model and so I started with a new back side sheet for this fire box.

The new back side sheet gets a grid pattern for the the stay-bolts using a simple drilling jig as the most easy way.

This should actually be round head rivets, which I wanted to use as staybolts with cap on the back side. Unfortunately, bolts with a cylindrical head were delivered! Rework was called for!

Now, these are really round head rivets used as flexible staybolts with caps.

A bit more difficultly - staybolts with hexagonal caps. However, NBWs with hex heads are a good base!

The head size must be reduced a bit where a drill chuck will be a good help for the 60 degree division.

So entehen kleine Bolzen mit einem Sechskantkopf aus nut-bolt-washer-Bolzen (NBW) - wobei diese ziemlich genau eine Größe von 0,8 Millimeter haben.

All ''staybolts'' are inserted, also two wash-out plugs and a fixing device for the two handles of shaking grate.

All parts are fixed to new fire box bach side sheet. And there I have stated sometimes that this boiler back side is

So looks the new back side sheet of fire box will all parts - staybolts, fire door, wash-out plugs and handles for the shaking grate. Really all?

I have to repeat myself, madness belongs to me. But what is to be done if a valve is multiply documented in connection with the fire door?

So I built one, this is the second atempt and has a hight of 6 model inches. It's little bit too large, however, I attached it on the rear of fire box, like at the engine in museum. And this the last addition, definitively!

Norfolk & Western class G1 in action - and that is not a river about which the locomotive must go, it's a way, of course!

The engine on a first model train meeting with ''my'' Xtra-train - however, this looks very much after a branch line.

However the loco runs yet with the wrong lettering in three lines and a fictive number! But this will be changed in next time!

The first pictures from moving the painted pressure tank, which is pulled by the small G1 as an Extra train - on a large layout while a model train exhibition.

Street running through ''Narrow Village'' - not an extraordinary situation in USA, however with an extraordinary train load which needs an Extra train.

Certainly there were railroad fans again who have climbed the highest hill in the surrounding to shoot this picture.

The 'Extra train' on a siding, such a train has now once no precedence. But the engine would have needed no a interruption, it ran very reliably round by round while several days. A magnificent result!

This here was e very cramped postion at the freight shed. However all was ok if also with one millimeter clearance.

Running along the rails ...

... mile for mile - here on the layout meter for meter, day by day.

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