Score! Hallmark SLSF 182-187 4-4-0 almost new, $157.00

This guy sets his reserve too high and as a result he will keep relisting over and over until it either sells or he gets tired of listing it. IMO $250 is too much. He had a 4400 on there forever. I don't know if he ever sold it.
I've gotten lazy and just put a Buy it Now price on something and if it doesn't sell, I'll relist it once at a lower price. If it doesn't sell then the heck with it. Plus I don't put ridiculous prices on things.

 

I've seen that Coffin FWH story somewhere else, probably copied from Bobbye's sheet. I've never seen any evidence of any of the engines were so equipped. No signs of a Coffin water pump, which would be awfully hard to hide. I'm going to do some more investigating, but I don't think it ever was. Normally when a Coffin is installed, the smokebox is a foot longer to accomodate the bundle.
Stand by until I look into this.

 

I need to go to the photo archives. I don't know where they would have hidden to pump on them without it being obvious. Perhaps this was something they did when they rebuilt them to try out. Got me stumped.

 

I hunted up some old photos of 183 and 187 and they indeed did have Coffin FWH on them when they were rebuilt. I don't think they lasted very long because some photos from the '30s show them without. Maybe the Coffin salesman talked them into two of them. They did have a Thermic Syphon, front end throttle and lightweight Walschaerts valve gear applied along with the new cylinders. They were beauties! I still don't have a left side view of either of them with the FWH and I'm still mystified as to where they hid the pump. They don't show on the RS.