in S-Scale by Art Armstrong
October 1, 2006
Pacific Coast Railway Number 120 was a 20 ton 3-foot gauge 127 hp Plymouth gas-mechanical Model HL-3. Dark and Reinberg in Finescale Modeler June 2001 report that the loco was built in 1927 as a 2-4-2. It was purchased by the PCR in 1936 and sold in 1942. "The Pacific Coast Railway" by Westcott and Johnson reports that the PCR received the loco as a four-wheeler and added 16 inch leading and trailing wheels to increase tracking ability. I built my model in S-scale standard gauge and without the small wheels. Otherwise I followed the drawings in the Westcott and Johnson book.
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Accucraft Trains makes excellent versions of this in 1:20.3 and On3/On30 scales. Click here
For information on S-scale model railroading try:
http://www.trainweb.org/crocon/sscale.html
Thanks for your time.
aarmstro(at)charter(dot)net