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Darth Santa Fe
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Just finished getting this one restored! The project this time around was Lindsay's "Stubby" diesel yard switcher, which is a tiny all-metal model from the early 50's powered by their famous 7-pole motor. Aside from waiting for paint to dry, it only took me a few hours to get this running and looking like a new engine!
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Very nice restoration of a very nice model. In the full-size railroad world, there were numerous small but mighty industrial switchers, and it's nice to see them represented.
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Why do I now want one of those? And why are they so hard to find?
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It probably isn't a stretch to say Lindsay made the finest HO scale mechanism of that period. I have an FA set by Lindsay and they run just beautifully. Their only downfall was the castings seem quite susceptible to zinc pest.
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jward
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I believe the bodies are still being made by Hobbytown of Boston. They have both the FAs and the PAs.
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Darth Santa Fe
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Yup, Hobbytown still makes the FA body, so replacements are available if the old body has zinc problems. I fortunately haven't had that problem with any of my Lindsay products, but I do also look at things pretty carefully before buying them since I have seen quite a few that were outright crumbling.
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Hobbytown does still make the bodies but..... they don't have the "Lindsay" stamp inside the shell. It's not the same! Back when I was putting that set together I found that a lot of the A-units available on ebay were bowed and crumbling. The B-units all seemed fine.
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