Sumpter 250's duff challenge

[Sumpter250]

It's 11:00 - - - - somewhere!
Fireman's blow off valve, forward bottom corner of firebox. I decided to leave the bottom edge level rather than sloped.
   
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Front end of loco, pilot coupler lift bar/rod, and pilot grab rail in place.
   
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Back of the tender, still needs a coupler lift rod, but will not get any additional steps. The vertical white thing in the way of the brake chain, was a plug in an existing hole in the tender deck ! :oops: it's gone now.
   
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engineers side blow off valve, nice silhouette of the throttle lever assembly in the rear side window
   
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There's some frame modification that have to be made to adequately clear the trailing truck, and to permit the installation of the shaft that will connect the loco mechanism to the motor in the tender. I'm planning on adding an ash dump chute. I will have to see just how much "side-to-side" clearance there will be, as the *drive wheels-trailing truck* negotiates the 18" radius curves, of the narrow gauge tracks. The chute may end up little more than a "profile piece".