Casey...very nice.

Great job!!! someday I will finish my I-8 that I made from a shortened mantua camelback.

The engines are ready for service.





New to my models details are the electric lines to the headlight and I was able to make the cloth screens for the fireman. The screens were made from an action figure kit cloak from a Gundam called Sandrock Custom, basically a big robot normally mistaken for a transformer. For some reason the cloak was out the robot itself is in a box somewhere and I never like putting it on it covering the whole robot, so repurposed it.

Fixed details are the compressors sit lower in the running boards and I learned more about how the air plumbing was actually set up. What I thought was air running down the firebox toward the back of the fireman's side is actually electric and not on both sides.





And trying something new took a video on my cellphone, running in the carpet wonderland.
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Holy cow dude, you're a one man Reading prototype steam modeler meet!
Are those 9-1/2 or 11" air pumps? Also, what are the big bars in back of the crosshead with the comma shaped thing on top?

Wow so many questions. I once converted an I-10 with a English drive kit. It was basicly a bowser Pennsy under carriage and valve gear. I didn't like the look an found the Bachman side rods and cylinders fit only some modification on the cylinders on the frame. I ended up with the right side rods & crosshead, cylinders for a reading. Only the drivers looked a little small, but once weathered not noticeable. So I still wanted to upgrade a I-10 with the newer spectrum consolidation under frame but the valve gear & crosshead was more like used on the I-9s. Did I read you right you can fit the I-10 gear on the newer spectrum consolidation wheels & frame? That is what you used under the I-8?
by the way your weathering looks great. and the video clip is great. they run so smooth.

Yes, both are spectrum guts and both have bachmann I-10 eccentric crank, eccentric rod and link in the valve gear. But 1537 is spectrum side rods and everything else was transplanted from an I-10 except the rebuilt valve gear/link hanger to be like an I-8s. I have to gather all the I-10 valve gears I have (at least 2 more) because I want to get rid of the baker valve gears or whats left of them on my M-1, I-9 and I-10. I will probably do the I-10 first since it's the most off and I need to fix the injector detail on it (it doesn't actually have an injector lifter to activate it) I'll do a follow the build on the conversion.

MrBill the pumps are I think 9-1/2" but to be honest I take what I can get in single air pumps. As for the shape do you mean the shape on the valve gear hanger right below the cab? That is representative of the linkage hooked to the power reverse that also goes across the frame to physically raise and lower the rod driven by the link that sets the piston valve in the cylinders to set direction of the locomotive.