Back a couple years ago I built up a Worsley Works SW-8 kit, documented in a series that starts here. Not an easy kit! I have one more of the kits, and hoped to build it someday to run two of these together.

Look at what was on eBay

Then, very recently another of these models came up for sale. It was not complete but complete enough to save a bunch of time. Here it is with my SW-8. From the side it looks pretty nice.

In this view I’d point out one inaccuracy and one accuracy of the NYC engine. On the positive side, while a little crude, the fuel tanks are more correctly sized. On the negative side, it should only have one stack, and it’s not tapered.

Building a kit with no instructions

While there are not that many people to guess from, I’m not sure the builder of this model. They did a pretty clean job but there are some things I’ll change.

Something I won’t change particularly though is the cab., although it does need more handrails.

In front of the cab I can probably live with but they didn’t get the taper worked out as well as I did.

Bottom view

I worked mine out for an actual drive that runs nicely! I’ll want to do something very similar.

The big problem to fix …

The front end is a bit problematic. I think I came to the correct solution in terms of building it, and filed in the curves. Steps I describe in this article.

I think the builder of the NYC engine stacked up the parts incorrectly and it needs worked over significantly. It will require taking the hood off the frame. With a first step before that of stripping the paint.

In any case, I still am really happy to have this model. I’ll work it over and make a drive for it, will be fun to operate two of these nicely detailed engines together.