Ace Engineering Works Mss 'Reaper'
Ace Engineering Works Mss 'Reaper'
Morning everyone,
I thought I'd share a build of a loco I acquired last April. There is no denying that she is a wreck and has seen better days, but despite this she has not had many hours of running for various reasons. The previous owner did not have very good luck running her and her future hung in the balance.
This engine started life as a green kit built Mss in 45mm. Originally bought with a tender although I do not believe she ever ran with it.
Many thanks to Pauly for allowing me to use some of his images and footage in my posts.
Here she is, unnamed, running at her last home - The Woodrow Light Railway (image used with permission)
Here she is on test (image used with permission)
And as far as this little engines career went, well that was it - as a steam locomotive. As she was a poor performer she was left abandoned in a siding in a scrap yard for many years.
As she was now becoming scrap, parts were removed for other projects, some were sold and she soon became unusable as a locomotive. (Image used with permission)
The WLR had a new lease of life, a factory was built and required steam to power it. The obvious choice for the factory was to use the little engine as a power plant. (Image used with permission)
Sadly there was a fire. The engine was having some fittings renewed and the careless fitter set fire to the engine. Sadly this rendered it unusable and at the same time the factory no longer required steam for their operations as they had then bought a compressor to do the work.
And that is where the career of the engine on the WLR ended. I had seen the engine prior to its demise and despite many attempts to acquire I had left empty handed. The line owner contacted me and offered the engine to me - obviously I accepted and at Peterborough 16mm AGM the handover took place.
Here is a video that pretty much says it all.
Edited to update video link
I thought I'd share a build of a loco I acquired last April. There is no denying that she is a wreck and has seen better days, but despite this she has not had many hours of running for various reasons. The previous owner did not have very good luck running her and her future hung in the balance.
This engine started life as a green kit built Mss in 45mm. Originally bought with a tender although I do not believe she ever ran with it.
Many thanks to Pauly for allowing me to use some of his images and footage in my posts.
Here she is, unnamed, running at her last home - The Woodrow Light Railway (image used with permission)
Here she is on test (image used with permission)
And as far as this little engines career went, well that was it - as a steam locomotive. As she was a poor performer she was left abandoned in a siding in a scrap yard for many years.
As she was now becoming scrap, parts were removed for other projects, some were sold and she soon became unusable as a locomotive. (Image used with permission)
The WLR had a new lease of life, a factory was built and required steam to power it. The obvious choice for the factory was to use the little engine as a power plant. (Image used with permission)
Sadly there was a fire. The engine was having some fittings renewed and the careless fitter set fire to the engine. Sadly this rendered it unusable and at the same time the factory no longer required steam for their operations as they had then bought a compressor to do the work.
And that is where the career of the engine on the WLR ended. I had seen the engine prior to its demise and despite many attempts to acquire I had left empty handed. The line owner contacted me and offered the engine to me - obviously I accepted and at Peterborough 16mm AGM the handover took place.
Here is a video that pretty much says it all.
Edited to update video link
Last edited by ace on Tue Dec 01, 2020 8:07 am, edited 3 times in total.
Often wondered what happened to that loco, nice to see its getting a second life. Will you be keeping it yellow ?
Dan,
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I do like the yellow, quite cute...
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Re: Ace Engineering Works Mss 'Reaper'
Its been a while and I have had this video prepared for well over 12 months now! The continued story of Reaper 'Rust in pieces'
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Nice little video, a bit different to the usual one.
Nice to see you posting again.
Nice to see you posting again.
Philip
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If a video can be poetic, then this is it.
Thanks. What a poignant start to the day!
Rik
Thanks. What a poignant start to the day!
Rik
Re: Ace Engineering Works Mss 'Reaper'
I liked the graffiti on the loco, unfortunately very appropriate.
Grant.
Grant.
Re: Ace Engineering Works Mss 'Reaper'
Ace, I've been looking for a Mamod/MSS body and frames for a while now, because I've got a set of Wilesco cylinders and eccentrics laying about and I've not made up my mind to turn them into a boat or a twin-cylinder steam tractor or locomotive, or what. If you're done playing with this corpse, I would offer you a fair price for the remains so I could play around with making a little fixed-cylinder Mamod-like slip-eccentric loco. At this point it's just one of the ideas I have for my "box of bits" but you never know what might happen.
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