Doug MacLeod’s LR&HS “James Wyman”

Way back in 2013, Doug MacLeod sent in the first set of pictures showing his scratchbuilt model of the LR&HS  locomotive “James Wyman” towards as it neared completion. A recent question from Dave Keith prompted further contact with Doug, who kindly sent in more pictures of the original model after a lot of details have been added and also pictures of its twin, being finished as the Sandy River Railroad second #3 and pictures of a further locomotive project.

The prototype was built by Baldwin in 1892 for the Laurel River & Hot Springs railroad based in North Carolina. It was sold to the Wiscasset & Quebec line (a fore-runner of the WW&FR) in 1893-4, but was not delivered for financial reasons. Instead it was sent to the Sandy River Railroad as their second #3 and renamed “Old Star”. In 1908 it was transferred to the SR&RL as their #16, and was later re-built as a 2-6-2.

 

In February 2019, Doug sent in some new pictures showing how this loco had developed, but it has taken us some time to add them;-

Doug is building a second model of this locomotive, finishing it as the Sandy River second #3;-

Extra – the Dickson locomotive in both half inch and quarter inch scales

Doug has also sent pictures of another two foot locomotive (60cm) that he is building in two scales, American O scale (quarter inch to the foot) and a larger version in half inch to the foot (1:24th scale). The locomotive is a Dickson, and is being built from plans drawn up by Richard Dunn that were published in the NG&SL Gazette May/June 1989 edition (pages 28-30).

 

Chassis parts in half inch scale.

Boiler parts in half inch scale.

The half inch scale locomotive model

Boiler backhead in half inch scale.

Parts for the quarter inch scale model.