3/4" scale, 3-1/2" gauge 4-6-4 "Hudson", New York Central Railroad
The original Laverne Langworthy/Yankee Shop Hudson, from the 1930s.
Castings Section ONE, available January 2013. All other castings in development. Please scroll down.
The 3/4" Scale, 3-1/2" Gauge "Yankee Shop Hudson".
Section 1, the Frame Group
Available January 2013 for the first time in roughly 35 years. All other sections in development.
Pilot Beam and Front Deck. Click the photo, to enlarge.
The Pilot (cowcatcher). Please click the photo to enlarge.
The drop coupler, knuckle, and counterbalance. Click photo to enlarge.
Main frame center brace. Click the photo to enlarge, please.
Main frame front brace. Please click the photo to enlarge.
The Cradle. Please click on photo, to enlarge.
Section One pricing: $695 plus $25 shipping to the USA, or plus $50 shipping to Canada. Payable with the "Paypal" buttons below. To pay by check, or for other countries, please inquire.
Please click the "Buy" button at left, for your "Laverne Langworthy" Section One (frame castings) to be shipped to the USA.
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Section 1: FRAME
Pilot Beam and Front Deck Pilot ("cowcatcher") Front Coupler ("drop" type) Coupler Counterbalance Main Frame Center Brace Main Frame Front Brace Cradle
Section 2: TRUCKS
Pilot Truck Frame Pilot Truck Frame Bolster Pilot Truck Center Plate Pilot Truck Wheels (4) Trailer Truck Side Frames Trailer Truck Rear Beam Trailer Truck Front Beam Trailer Truck Rear Axle Box Trailer Truck Front Axle Box Trailer Truck Front Wheels (2) Trailer Truck Rear Wheels (2)
Section 3: Drive Wheels
Main Axle Boxes (6) Drive Wheels, light (4) Drive Wheels, heavy (2)
Section 4: Steam Brakes
Brake Ring for Drive Wheels Brake Ring for Pilot Wheels & Trailer Truck Front Wheels Brake Ring for Trailer Truck Rear Wheels Brake and Spring Hanger Brackets Engine Brake Cylinder Engine Brake Cylinder Head
Grate Frame Grate Bars Steam Dome Inner Steam Dome Inner Cover Steam Dome Outer Sand Dome Throttle, poppet type Throttle Mount Plate Throttle Shaft Outer Bearing Super Heater Head Smokebox Front Smokestack Petticoat Turrett Globe Valve Bodies Angle Valve Bodies Water glass casting Water Glass Steam Gauge Power Reverse Cylinder (dummy) Headlight Headlight Bracket Bell, Bell Hanger, and Bow Air Pumps (dummy) Air Pump Brackets, L & R
All Castings to be traditional "sand castings" EXACTLY as were available for this locomotive from the 1930s until 1980
Section 7: Tender
Tender Truck Frames Tender Truck Sides Tender Truck End Beams Tender Truck Bolsters Tender Truck Center Plates Tender Truck Axle Boxes Tender Truck Wheels Tender Water Bottom Tender Steps Tender Draw Bar Pocket Tender Rear Bumper Coupler and Knuckle Tender Brake Cylinder Brake Cylinder Front Head Brake Cylinder Rear Head Hand Pump Hand Pump Gland
Classic Live Steam of Yesteryear: All castings to be produced in New England, USA, in the tradition of the "old days".
3/4" scale 3-1/2" gauge Coal Fired 5-1/2" diameter copper boiler, silver soldered (can be rolled from flat sheet, or seamless copper tube can purchased from Reeves in the United Kingdom)
Combustion Chamber 3-1/2 inches long with 6 water tube (circulation) stays Two thermic siphons Superheater Shaking grates
Steam powered water pump below the cab Dummy "Franklin type", power reverse Baker or Walshaert valve gear
Cylinders 1-7/16 inch bore by 1-3/4 inch stroke Piston valves, 7/8 inch diameter by 9/16 inch stroke All steam and exhaust ports cored into the cylinder casting
Drive Wheels, 4-15/16 diameter on tread Engine truck, front trailer, and tender wheels: 2-1/4 inches diameter Rear trailer truck wheels, 3-3/16 inches diameter
Firebox 5-5/8 inches by 8-1/4 inches
Steam Brakes on the engine and tender Hand pump in the tender Injector and axle pump optional (to be fitted by the builder, but a Friends Models 2 ram axle pump drawing, and casting, can be supplied)
Solid Cast Bronze "Tender Water Bottom"
Length of engine and tender, 72 inches Height, top of rail to top of stack: 11-5/16 inches Width of tender and cab, 7-1/2 inches Wheelbase, engine: 30-1/4 inches. Tender: 23-1/16 inches. Engine & tender: 62-7/16 inches. Rigid wheelbase, drivers only: 10-1/2 inches. Weight of locomotive (approx.) 220 lbs.
To see the "side view" (elevation) as drawn by Mr. Langworthy, or to purchase the complete set of drawings, please see the links below.
The famous "Yankee Shop Hudson" in 3/4" scale was designed by Laverne Langworthy of Westerly, Rhode Island. Mr. Langworthy was born in 1877. He was a high school machine shop teacher in Westerly.
In the 1930s, he began designing, drawing, and making patterns for what was to become one of the finest models of a 3/4" scale New York Central "Hudson" ever designed. Beginning in the mid-1930s, he advertised castings for this Hudson in The Modelmaker magazine. Around World War II, Lester Friend of "Yankee Shop" bought the design rights and the patterns for the "Langworthy Hudson", and thereafter it became unofficially (but popularly) known as the Yankee Shop Hudson.Laverne Langworthy died in 1944.
Laverne Langworthy at Danvers, MA in 1938.
This is 21 Grove Avenue, Westerly Rhode Island.......the former home of Laverne and Grace Langworthy. Taken July 22nd, 2010. This home is just one block from the Westerly Station on the New Haven Railroad's famous "Shore Line" between Boston and New York (now Amtrak), and is the location from which Mr. Langworthy sold his Hudson castings in the 1930s. He died in 1944.
The late J. Drennan "Doc" Lowell at the Pioneer Valley Live Steamers' track at Southwick, Massachusetts in the 1970s, on a 3/4" scale, 3-1/2" gauge "Yankee Shop Hudson".
To look the entire project over, you may purchase the complete set of drawings for the 3/4" scale Hudson. To do so please click HERE.
A "Yankee Shop Hudson" at the New Jersey Live Steamers. 3/4" scale, 3-1/2 gauge, another excellent example of this classic by Laverne Langworthy.
Harry Hansen runs his 3/4" scale "Laverne Langworthy" Hudson
