Class 45.0 (1'D h2 / 2-8-0) Steam Locomotives

The things we want don't always come straight out of a box!

Here is before and after views (actually, after and before views) of a Roco class 58 loco.

My models of TCDD Class 45 are heavily kit-bashed from Roco Br58 locos. The 10-coupled frames of the Roco 58's were shorted by a full driver axle to turn the engines into the 8-coupled TCDD Class 45 and the boiler was shortened accordingly. The fact that Roco engines are tender-drive helped quite a bit as no serious mechanical work had to be modified in the locomotives.

TCDD 45018 resting in the yard as 56523 prepares to depart westbound with a mixed train.

 

TCDD 45018 awaits the departure signal with a westbound express at Kemalpasa.

TCDD 45041 at Sazlidere Train Station.

TCDD 45041 at Sazlidere Station.