Re: C&S Brass, Any Scale, Listed on eBay

Posted by Mike Trent on
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Jim, OMI produced two different snowplows for the C&S engines in On3. I had gone up to Idaho Springs to measure and photograph #60's plow and sent the information tp OMI's draftsman, Arendt Gerrittson. About a week later, he called me to ask if I was sure on the measurements. He said that the plow on #60, which had a height of 42", didn't look right on #71. It was too tall. After a fair amount of time digging through as many photographs as we could scrounge up and with Todd Hackett's eagle eyes, we concluded that the plows on the larger 2-8-0's were actually 36" tall, to allow for clearance of the smokebox front to swing open over the plow. The 2-8-0's with their larger, low slung boilers required this. The Moguls, however, had 42" high plows. And so does #60. The plow OMI provided for the Moguls has patches over and forward of the pilot beam as #9 has. So check your plows, and see which version you have. Maybe you have both.