5 inch gauge LMS "Crab" 2-6-0

A large quantity of parts for a 5 inch gauge LMS "Crab" 2-6-0 to the Don Young design, comprising:

• Commercially built silver soldered copper boiler by R.Chambers
• Set laser cut frames and stretchers
• Driving & coupled and pony wheel castings
• Unmachined gunmetal castings including cylinder set, motion brackets, smokebox door & rings, horns, chimney, petticoat pipe and dome
• Boiler fittings including safety valves, injectors, gauge fittings, steam valves, blower valve, "Everlasting" blowdown valve
• Erected tender frames
• Machined tender wheels and axleboxes
• Laser cut brass tender body parts
• Drawings

A well-regarded design, although one that's rarely modelled - not sure why, as it's a handsome, highly distinctive looking locomotive with its steeply inclined cylinders giving an impression of power even at rest.

Parts and castings are available from Reeves, as ever Model Engineers Laser list a wide range of profiled parts to assist in the build.

If you need some inspiration to get started on this one, there are some pictures of a superb example that we sold some years ago in the archive.