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Here is my Varney Berkshire! new pilot, ladders and headlight added!
It´s combined with the Varney USRA tender I got from a friend (thanks)!
have to drill holes for handrail stanchions and marker lights! paint at last! - Erich
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Here is my Varney Berkshire! new pilot, ladders and headlight added!
It´s combined with the Varney USRA tender I got from a friend (thanks)!
have to drill holes for handrail stanchions and marker lights! paint at last! - Erich

Originally posted by Erich - February 23 2014 :  08:04:33 AM

Very nice! I would just recommend giving both the engine and tender a paint of black then add some Nickel Plate Road or whatever railroad you'd like to put on and there you go.
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Thanks kovacste000 for suggestion! will paint both loco and tender! - Erich
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Thanks kovacste000 for suggestion! will paint both loco and tender! - Erich

Originally posted by Erich - February 23 2014 :  12:32:36 PM

Your welcome! Looking forward to seeing how it turns out!
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I'm sure I will. I've always been blown away by what you guys can do with these old engines.
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*swipes loco & paints in Psyedelic Colors!*
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* Nice to see a old Varney being returned to service. Good work Eric. It should be a very good pulling locomotive. Lots of weight there.
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thanks guys! added handrails, marker lights and coupler bar. Flag poles are custom made from longer
Varney handrail stanchions! next is to add marker lights and coupler bar to the tender! - Erich
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thanks guys! added handrails, marker lights and coupler bar. Flag poles are custom made from longer
Varney handrail stanchions! next is to add marker lights and coupler bar to the tender! - Erich

Originally posted by Erich - February 25 2014 :  02:38:29 AM

Good work so far!
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Needs a bigger Varney tender, though, that one's for the Casey Jones/Old Lady.
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Needs a bigger Varney tender, though, that one's for the Casey Jones/Old Lady.

Originally posted by lvrr325 - February 26 2014 :  10:28:51 PM






Yes I know! it arrived with a Vanderbilt tender! but I don´t want this tender behind the Berkshire!
The USRA Tender looks better to me, the shorter tender gives the engine a different look I think! - Erich
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Erick, I think the original way that locomotive came way back when is with a brass tender. You know how would know is Sean. He probably has a original tender.
I'm going to PM him.
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Varney made a stamped brass tender using the same frame/trucks as the Vandy in a couple of variants.
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* I have seen pictures of the Mikado and the Pacific. They seen to have the same tender as the early mikado. There should be tenders out there somewhere. The tender trucks on the early brass tender matches the look of the berkshire rear truck. This will give you the look you are looking for. The die cast tender was how it came at the end of its production run.
** Pictures are from HOseeker.
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Yes Frank and lvrr325, it´s the Varney Brass tender what matches best! Thanks - Erich
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Erick, I guess that means you don't have one. To bad it would look great. I'll ask around. Unless someone out there in TYCO land can help.
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Thanks Frank! but thats the half story! I got a Varney dockside. it moves but has three broken steps, would need
a frame and a shell too! or a kemtron cab forward kit, but then I need a sloope back tender! - Erich
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Erick, Good list. I don't have any of that stuff, might get one sunday. will get back sunday evening after show.

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T h a n k s! - Erich
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* I have seen pictures of the Mikado and the Pacific. They seen to have the same tender as the early mikado. There should be tenders out there somewhere. The tender trucks on the early brass tender matches the look of the berkshire rear truck. This will give you the look you are looking for. The die cast tender was how it came at the end of its production run.
** Pictures are from HOseeker.
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Originally posted by toptrain - February 27 2014 :  08:21:56 AM

I like what Erich did with the Berkshire better than how it really looked. It'll definitely look better after he paints it though.
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Sean, that's a tender I'm looking for to tag along with my Varney economy 2-8-0!
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Use this tender now! - Erich
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hi erich,looks good ken
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** Erick the tender and loco looks good together. Good idea.
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The last two Varney Berkshire kits (2950K & 200K) issused from 1962 thru 1968 came with a plastic Long Distance tender, kit #2704. The Berkshire with the plastic Long Distance tender also came in a reay-to-run version decorated for the PRR.

http://hoseeker.net/varneyinformation/varneycatalog1967pg01.jpg

http://hoseeker.net/varneyinformation/varneybrochure1pg4.jpg
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The Varney Berkshire also came without tender. The modeler chose the tender himself!
- Erich
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Use this tender now! - Erich

Originally posted by Erich - March 01 2014 :  07:21:04 AM

That tender looks much better with that engine than the previous tender. That one just looked a little too small.
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There were actually five Varney Berkshire kits.

2400K 1950-1952 Locomotive only, unsprung brass frame, cast brass boiler
2325K 1953-1954 Locomotive only, one piece brass channel frame, cast brass boiler
2714K 1957-1960 Locomotive only, unsprung brass frame, cast lead/tin boiler
2950K 1961-1965 w/ 2704K Plastic tender, same as 2714K, plus tender
200K 1966-1968 w/ 2704K Plastic tender, same as 2950K, Varney assigned new catalog number for it in 1966.
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@ waw47: you have the Greenberg´s Guide I guess! well investigation! -Erich
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Erich

Yes, and I have the 200K with plastic tender.

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thats fine Bill, it´s a great puller I think!
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Yes, and I have the 200K with plastic tender.

Bill

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Use this tender now! - Erich

Originally posted by Erich - March 01 2014 :  07:21:04 AM


Looks like a match made in Heaven! The bulk of the engine and tender seem to match in an artistic balance sense. Beside that, one tends to think of Berkshires pulling long trains far and fast. It takes a big tender to supply the fuel and water for that sustained effort.
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Use this tender now! - Erich

Originally posted by Erich - March 01 2014 :  07:21:04 AM


Looks like a match made in Heaven! The bulk of the engine and tender seem to match in an artistic balance sense. Beside that, one tends to think of Berkshires pulling long trains far and fast. It takes a big tender to supply the fuel and water for that sustained effort.

Originally posted by scsshaggy - March 01 2014 :  3:39:50 PM


many thanks scsshaggy, but my first thought was to use a original Varney tender and I have no other on hand!
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ready for paint now! - Erich
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That is one bruiser of a locomotive. I agree that the long haul tender looks better and seems much more appropriate.
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I was actually starting to wonder what happened to this thing. Good job, though!
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Painted in black! Awesome : all wheels flanged and rigidly mounted! How will it turn around the curves?? - Erich
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