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 Posted - October 29 2009 : 10:41:58 AM
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OK, I have a Mantua 0-8-0. From what I understand, a lot of parts are shared with the Tyco 2-8-0/0-8-0 Chattanooga/Royal Blue/Clementine/Etc. loco.
I am in need of the following:
Cab
Front pilot with walkways
Front truck
In fact, a junk 2-8-0 would be best. Anyone have one?
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Posted - October 29 2009 : 4:15:03 PM
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| you might try www.yardbirdtrains.com Dan Bush has got a nice selection of NEW parts for old locos.
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Posted - October 29 2009 : 4:33:18 PM
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He's also in the middle of moving, and apparently everything's boxed up.
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Posted - October 29 2009 : 5:33:06 PM
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I have a Tyco 2-8-0 around here somwhere...I think it's a little dirty though. Might need to be painted.
    
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Posted - October 29 2009 : 6:45:57 PM
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Interested in getting rid of it?
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Posted - October 29 2009 : 7:14:16 PM
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I dug it out and it's pretty well missing all the parts you listed. 
Sorry!
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Posted - October 29 2009 : 11:25:16 PM
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I have a bunch of junker 0-8-0 Chattanoogas, Kris. I have the cab, but the pilot is different than the Mantua version. On the Chattanoogas the steamchest is plastic, and the walkway steps slide into slots in the cylinder steam pipes, instead of being a molded part of the pilot deck. The Mantua style is also mounted to the frame with one screw through a flimsy plastic tab, while the Chattanooga frame supports its whole snap-on plastic pilot.
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Posted - October 30 2009 : 09:35:47 AM
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Hmm. I've been to HOseeker and I've seen the diagrams for the 1980 release 0-8-0 and 2-8-0. It appears that many parts are shared with the Tyco Chattanoogas, but the frame design is different.
The Mantua 2-8-0 has a different pilot piece than the 0-8-0. It includes the stepway as found on the Tyco model but has a boiler-tube pilot instead of the step pilot of the Tyco. The Mantua 0-8-0 has a step pilot but no provision for the steps to the walkway.
What I'm essentially doing with my 0-8-0 is turning it into a road locomotive. Therefore, I'm thinking that the Tyco pilot piece could be sliced and diced to give me the walkway parts I'd like to have.
I'm planning of getting rid of the rear sand dome too, so if I had a spare Tyco boiler, I could take a patch panel that would have the right radius to patch the hole where the dome was. What else - hmm, the boiler front has an integral light casting that can't just be removed, so I would need another boiler front piece to give me a workable patch panel.
The more I think about it, the more I realize that a junker 0-8-0 or 2-8-0 will be the best way to supply needed parts and panels.
If you have a junker that you're willing to get rid of, I could take it off your hands. Condition would be mostly unimportant as long as it was complete and had a good cab. I wouldn't need the tender, of course.
Kris Carver-Seaboyer
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Edited by - graftonterminalrr on October 30 2009 09:37:06 AM
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Posted - January 06 2010 : 4:56:41 PM
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Whoops - sorry I didn't post a followup earlier!
The parts came in and were just what I needed. Therefore I am no longer in need of Chattanooga 2-8-0 parts, unless I happen to obtain another.
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