LHR Engine No: 1 “Konrad”
The first engine for our garden empire is a Regner Konrad. It is a very simple engine that uses a single oscillating steam cylinder to drive the wheels through a gear system. Reviews for the engine have been very positive and I bit the bullet and purchased one. Here’s what it looked like right out of the box:
The Konrad looks like it could easily be kitbashed into a small turn-of-the-century logging locomotive. Here’s a list of things I’m considering to change:
- Install new wooden bumpers at both the front and rear.
- Install link and pins couplers back and front.
- Paint: red and green colors need to be repainted black.
- Add a new more-to-scale engineer figure.
- Add a roof.
Well, here’s everything done but the new roof:
And one with “Engineer Bill”, my scratchbuilt engineer figure:
Written by Barry Cott
March 3rd, 2006 at 6:21 pm
