Saito steam for Midwest Seguin Tug?

Greetings! I’m new here. I have been a model builder since the 1970s, mostly airplanes. This is my first foray into live steam. I recently found a 36” Midwest Seguin tugboat kit, in pristine, untouched condition at a swap meet, and I couldn’t refuse… Getting ready to get started. Any thoughts on a good steam power plant? I have a Saito T2DR and B2F boiler that I found online at a great price, but I am not sure this boiler will fit into the hull properly. Do you think a BT-1 or BT-1L boiler will work with the T2DR engine? Seems a vertical boiler is more suited to the hull and superstructure.

Hello and welcome to the forum, from NY

Mine is powered with a two cylinder Krick. The nice part about this engine being two cylinders is that it has no dead center, so no reversing gear needed.

My boiler is vertical unlike the picture on the Krick manual. If you want to keep everything inside the footprint of the deckhouse, I think a horizontal boiler will be difficult.

Hotspur said:

My boiler is vertical unlike the picture on the Krick manual. If you want to keep everything inside the footprint of the deckhouse, I think a horizontal boiler will be difficult.

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Beautiful Seguin! Thank you for responding!

That is exactly what I am thinking. Saito makes a smaller vertical boiler (BT-1L) that can work, though it is a smaller capacity and a little lower pressure than their horizontal boiler.

The krick vertical boiler looks good. I bet one could be made to work with my 2 cylinder Saito engine? This is my first live steam model, so I am having fun sorting out how to put it all together.
-Christian