[rsv1ho]

These missing boiler doors locomotives keep following me home and I keep filling them up with Presidents.

A Roosevelt dime is a perfect fit for this little engine. This time I got perfect alignment with the headlight lamp.

 

[Lshearer]

Pretty cool


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[Fire21]

It certainly makes them distinctive. Just make sure you're not using rare and valuable coins!!

 

[cv_acr]

I don't get it, but whatever floats your boat.

 

[rsv1ho]

I don't get it, but whatever floats your boat.

It's either that or a gaping hole.

No permanent mods to any and all are completely reversible should I find replacement doors.

These are like $15 or less parts engines, now worth a few cents more.

 

[Gramps]

I find it interesting that the various coins are a perfect fit.

 

[rsv1ho]

Added another one. These boiler doorless locos just find their way to my model railroad.

Rivarossi Light Pacific "President Washington." A nickel glued inside a Washington quarter providing a cementing base and it fit just fine.

Didn't come with a tender but I have the same one in a different road name. Will suffice until I find a proper replacement or until I paint his one. Loco runs fine.

Major investment. Got almost a buck tied up in these.

 

[Jscullans]

That’s pretty funny!!! Isn’t it illegal to deface currency though?

 

[D&J Railroad]

That’s pretty funny!!! Isn’t it illegal to deface currency though?

Only if you're caught.

 

[Old_Hobo]

Shouldn't be too difficult now with all this photographic evidence....:laugh:

 

[rsv1ho]

Nah, This president still has his nose. Others have Pinocchio noses which for Presidents isn't much of a stretch...….pun intended.

 

[Eilif]

A buddy of mine is casting his own boiler doors for his Rivs that are missing them.

I'll point him this way.

 

[rsv1ho]

A buddy of mine is casting his own boiler doors for his Rivs that are missing them.

I'll point him this way.

I was thinking 3D printing with plastics. Seems many engines are missing boiler doors, Rivarossi in particular. I have a few more where coins won't fit.

Maybe something foreign, Chinese coins already have holes in them..

 

[Oldtimer52]

Rivarossi boiler fronts

rsv1ho, if you'll post the Rossi models, I can see if I have
already made molds for these fronts. I currently have fronts
for the 4-4-0 and 2-4-0 locos produced by Rossi.

 

[65446]

A head-on collision certainly takes on a new meaning here ! (to coin my own phrase) M

 

[65446]

Hey, here's another idea! Stick postage stamps on your diesel snouts.

 

[Old_Hobo]

Heads on the locos.....tails on the caboose....:laugh:

 

[rsv1ho]

rsv1ho, if you'll post the Rossi models, I can see if I have
already made molds for these fronts. I currently have fronts
for the 4-4-0 and 2-4-0 locos produced by Rossi.

I will have to dig them all out, but going from memory and the picture above they are the 0-8-0/0-6-0/0-4-0 switchers, the light Pacific, and the 4-4-0 Reno. Bowkers too but they are available.

 

[Big Ed]

It would have been better to have used old silver coins.

 

[Oldtimer52]

I will have to dig them all out, but going from memory and the picture above they are the 0-8-0/0-6-0/0-4-0 switchers, the light Pacific, and the 4-4-0 Reno. Bowkers too but they are available.

I have the front for the 4-4-0 but will have to find the fronts
for the others and make molds. Will try to get to this seomtime
this week.