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 Posted - November 16 2025 : 1:15:59 PM
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It is all heavy die-cast. No visible maker's marking.
The boiler looks like one of Varney/Penn Line/MDC. The boiler and cab are one casting.
The drive assembly looks like Mantua/TYCO from a 2-8-2.
The valve hanger is part of the die-cast boiler.
The tender looks like Penn Line/Bowser.
The steam chest has no piping to the boiler.
Also the steam chest center hole is tapped having a screw in the frame to hold it in place. No longer a pain to get the valve gear aligned when the steam chest falls away from the frame during disassembly.
The boiler front is held by a screw in the smoke stack to the steam chest. Engine cab has 2 brass screws up from the fame rear.
It runs well like a typical Mantua/TYCO die-cast steamer.
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Posted - November 16 2025 : 11:32:07 PM
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It's definitely a bit of a mongrel. The mechanism really does look to be cut from a Mantua Mikado, as you said, and the shell looks like the Bowser H-9 consolidation. I don't know what the pilot comes from.
The pilot truck is Mantua, but the all-metal wheels are not original to that.
The tender trucks have a real Bowser look about them, but the tender shell is not familiar to me. I thought it looked like the Bowser 32-foot tender, but it lacks the rivet detail that comes with that. It also has some extra details, but those could be added
The steam chest piping should be there. I wonder if it just didn't fit the new smokebox diameter, so the owner just removed it. Still, it would usually be there with cylindrical valves. It might be possible to add some to fit the new boiler.
Carpe Manana!
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