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 Posted - January 03 2010 : 12:40:13 AM
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Seaching for a late run Mantua Southern green Mikado, these came in the red box. Box isnt required however. I am building a Southern RR layout and am looking for this engine. Thanks Mike
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Posted - January 03 2010 : 11:10:56 AM
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Is this it? The only 8 wheeler Mantua I have is a Berkshire 2-8-4. It is a Mantua modified mikado. You can see the extras that Mantua added , some you cant see Like the can motor with inclosed gear tower and the rear end detail. This includes a working back up head light. This is not your stock mantua locomotive. It also has a smoke unit.
From what I see this was only made one year, And I don't know when that was. The Mikado I seen on Tony Cooks site was made 4 or 5 years at least. I searched thro all his catalogs and didn't find this engine. I do remember seeing it in a Mantua box. I don't know if it came with the air tanks on top. The locos with additional brass details don't show up in the catalogs it seams but they were made.
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Posted - January 03 2010 : 5:29:01 PM
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Nope, thats not it, it had the smaller dia boiler with the stand alone front headlight, that might be a Franklin Mint engine, they did several including a Crescent Limited Pacific with all the extra unpainted brass details. That Berkshire has the heavy Mikado boiler with the older tooling on it, the one I am hunting is the smaller light mikado. I seen one on ebay last year, wasnt a custom paint as it had the factory box and it was marked Southern. The one I am hunting is probably chinese production, just prior to Model Power aquiring Mantua. Mike
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Posted - January 03 2010 : 5:50:49 PM
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is it this one ken
hope you dont mind tony 1994 cat
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Posted - January 03 2010 : 5:55:16 PM
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Here is the part number for the one I want along with a picture of both the Mikado and the Franklin Mint Pacific. Mike 386040 Southern 2-8-2 Mikado
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Posted - January 03 2010 : 5:57:48 PM
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Ya beat me to the pic!!! LMOA, yours is a much better pic of the engine. Thats the one I want Mike
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Posted - January 03 2010 : 5:58:40 PM
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Posted - January 03 2010 : 6:00:55 PM
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hi mike have 2 of those matchbox/mantua,plus the franklin mint ken
http://www.tycoforums.com/tyco/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=7523
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Posted - January 03 2010 : 6:16:46 PM
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The look great Ken, I love both of the newer ones, Matchbox and Franklin Mint. I have a PFM brass one from 1961 that I just got painted. I put a new Sagami motor in it, runs smooth as a watch. Hopefully I can find all the Mantua versions, starting with the Mikado, then the 2 Pacifics. 
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Posted - January 03 2010 : 6:26:55 PM
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nice loco,bit pricey for me,but will keep eyes open for you ken
ps,in all my books the cab roof is black,more so in richard e frenchs southern rr trains and boats,and more confusing 1401 in the smithsonian is green, why does everybody paint them red
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Posted - January 03 2010 : 6:32:31 PM
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Many thanks Ken, I traded another engine for it, but to put dollers to it, $175 plus $75 to paint it. Mike
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Posted - January 03 2010 : 6:40:27 PM
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and worth every buck buddy,nearly forgot this one a broadway limited light mikado,great smooth runner,got dc sounds,ken
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Posted - January 03 2010 : 7:39:53 PM
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I have a beautifully weathered Broadway PRR I1sa Decapod that I love, but on the huge club layout with straight DC, 3vt AC superimposed over the DC power for the CTC block detection circuits, it has issues and is for sale. The Mantua engines run great out there, as does Bowser and older Brass. Mike
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Posted - January 03 2010 : 7:59:38 PM
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| nice loco is it a paragon ken
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Posted - January 03 2010 : 8:17:40 PM
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Hey cadetpwr:
How much for the Deek? PM will ya...
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Posted - January 03 2010 : 8:18:18 PM
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Yepper, Precision Craft Model for BLI, long distance 8 axle tender, professionaly weathered. Here is a picture of it. I have it priced at $325 plus shipping. Mike
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Posted - January 03 2010 : 8:25:10 PM
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you can buy if you wish gareth,postage would be a killer to uk,where did you pop up from,mike lovely loco, check the link out you saved a few bob on that pfm ken
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160389292102&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT#ht_500wt_1182
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Posted - January 03 2010 : 8:31:55 PM
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I put up a thread for the Decapod and a couple of blue box Athearns that need new homes. Yes I did well on my PFM. I found it at a huge train show in Chicago, new in the box and never run. Its a very early run, 2nd year of production and has a serial number on it marking it from the 1961 production run. Cheers Mike
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Posted - January 03 2010 : 8:37:14 PM
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cadetpwr:
out of my range till yhe spring. It's lovely. Somewhere I had the Idea it was a Penn Line or Bowser and therefore under $200
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Posted - January 03 2010 : 8:38:56 PM
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If it was one of those, it wouldnt be for sale. Now if someone has a couple of the southern Mantua's and wants to do some swapping, that can be arranged. I am always open to some good old fashioned horse trading.
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Posted - January 03 2010 : 8:43:53 PM
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Don't gots unfortunately. A buddy of mine has a nice Mantua Mikado in excellent condition, He's a "Traction" Interurban guy don't know why he grabbed it but hhe's looking to move it.... do you want me to ask him?
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Posted - January 03 2010 : 8:46:03 PM
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this is my best loco,southern ms2,by westside,made in korea,ken
NOT FOR SALE OR TRADE
outbid on it sick
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Posted - January 03 2010 : 8:48:37 PM
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If its just a plain jane no, if its one of the above mentioned green Southern Mikados, then by all means yes. I already have one newer black one. Trying to stay with the newer Sagami drive engines, then I dont have to repower, just replace the rubber tube with NWSL cups and dog bone drive shaft. This removes thrust loads from the bearings in both the gear box and the motor. The motor just needs to transmit rotational motion, not thrust motion. This is espicaly important on the 2-6-6-2 engines between the two chassis. I would like to get another green Weyerhauser engine, should have kept the one I had. Need to get that stuff I posted sold so I can buy this other stuff. Mike
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Posted - January 03 2010 : 8:51:12 PM
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I have two brass units an Alco Models (70's) MLW CNR RS-18 and a van Hobbies-Samhongsa CNR 0-18a 0-6-0 switcher. Both beautiful but more show than run.... the older Alco models units are not great operators and the 0-6-0 is unpainted and therefore not an operator per say!
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Posted - January 03 2010 : 9:01:43 PM
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I wana say his is a newer unit, but not a Crescent..
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Posted - January 03 2010 : 9:08:42 PM
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Figures its not a Crescent. Ken, neat streamliner, who imported/produced that one?
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Posted - January 03 2010 : 9:14:57 PM
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hi mike at last another southern fan,seller says its a d&d for precision scale co, ken
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Posted - January 03 2010 : 9:29:19 PM
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Yes Ken, another Southern fan, both of the US and the UK line, with a little GWR fetish in the closet!
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Posted - January 03 2010 : 9:33:18 PM
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| snap my preferred british rr ken
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