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 Posted - February 11 2012 : 7:08:58 PM
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time here is 0012 sunday,my loco this week is a shay 80 tonner,needs a little touch up to cab,otherwise neat and smooth runner ken
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Posted - February 11 2012 : 7:32:13 PM
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| nice loco ken
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Posted - February 11 2012 : 8:28:32 PM
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 most recent ebay aquisition a mantua big six 0-6-0 shifter, after lubing it with labelle and cleaning her up a bit she looks and runs amazing and is dead silent
I buy, repair, and collect
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Posted - February 11 2012 : 8:36:05 PM
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My new smallest HO engine! Sorry Ken, I'm keeping this. After all, only brass engine and paid $10 for!! Ken Kidder Plantation engine:
" Heck with counting 'em rivets, TRAINS ARE FOR FUN! Not called the Mad Scientist for nothing either!"
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Posted - February 11 2012 : 10:21:11 PM
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There's no justice, is there Ken?
Mine this week I just got, a Bachmann FT A unit, 4 screws, some couplers and a shim on a gear tower were all she needed...not a bad runner...
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Posted - February 12 2012 : 08:59:51 AM
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Here's mine. When purchased at a train show. In the shop right now.
Varney 2-6-0
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Posted - February 12 2012 : 12:32:20 PM
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I picked this up during the week, looks like it was never ran.
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Posted - February 12 2012 : 1:43:07 PM
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Coupla BL2's:
P2K (with incorrect truck sideframes) leading AHM. For as crude as old IHC model seems by itself, it's not too bad compared side by side; some of the P2K's details almost seem clunky on their own merits. Mehano / Tempo did a great job on the Rock Island paint scheme - which always seemed an awkward fit for this unit. The worst part of the AHM model is the awful, awful trucks.
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Posted - February 12 2012 : 2:18:46 PM
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My first sound loco. It is quite an amazing runner. Bachmann did a fantastic job on this loco.
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Posted - February 12 2012 : 3:55:32 PM
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This is the best built with all the detail small old engine I have.
It runs great and very little noise.it does not have a head light but I will solve that when I get time.
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Posted - February 12 2012 : 4:48:28 PM
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Mine this week is another 2-8-0 Royal Blue. Got it at a sale with no box and it didnt run for $10.00. A good cleaning and new traction tires we are good to go.
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Posted - February 12 2012 : 7:50:28 PM
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LOTW / ID help needed : I bought this at an antique shop in NC Saturday, looks to be a Prairie 2-6-2, closest match I can find is an AT & SF version, #1073 found on Google search, but mine has horizontal slat cow catcher, can't find a single steam engine like that except the ancient John Bull. No HO id anywhere stamped on it, either. If anyone can give me a clue I'd appreciate it I looked through HOSeekers lit, but found nothing that matched, there's not many 2-6-2's made in HO that I see.
Got no tender with it, so will have to figure out what goes with it when it gets ID'd. Other details - most 2-6-2's seem to have no truck framework , these axles have points on them, like there's something that goes around them? Yes? No? Thought maybe it was missing framework, but after seeing some Prairies, they dont' seem to have frames on their front and rear axles, anyway. but the points are rather, er, "pointless" then, aren't they? Looks fresh inside, clean wiring, like it's never been run. Has an open-frame motor, but mounted totally horizontal, not at an angle. Brass worm gear, not plastic.
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Posted - February 12 2012 : 8:04:40 PM
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A MDC/Roundhouse I guess? Try this:
http://hoseeker.net/assemblyexplosionMdc/Assembly%20Explosion%2009L-2%202-6-2%20Prarie.jpg
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Posted - February 12 2012 : 8:31:43 PM
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quote:A MDC/Roundhouse I guess? Try this:
://hoseeker.net/assemblyexplosionMdc/2-6-2Prarie.jpg
Originally posted by Redneck Justin - February 12 2012 : 8:04:40 PM
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Well it has the horizontal cow catcher, but my boiler doesn't have the rectangular housing near the cab, mine has 3 steps on the side, not 2, also the sand dome and whistle spacings are different , etc. My cab also has 2 round windows on the front to the sides and top, this one has two close-spaced rectangular mini-windows. I'm pretty sure what I have is a Prairie, it's now trying to identify which one and whose.  But thanks for finding that one for me. I missed it. 
EDIT - Ok, I went in and looked further, you posted the 9L prairie, there's a 6L and a 13L MDC as well, mine looks spot-ON for the 6L. YAY!  I think that's it, Justin, thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
Jerry
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Posted - February 12 2012 : 9:13:41 PM
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You found it Jerry...it just looks like someone replaced the original wheelsets with some taken from a freight car ala Mantua pilots...
Alas...I have the perfect tender for it...waiting for a locomotive to follow...
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Posted - February 13 2012 : 12:12:54 AM
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careful with that application... a steam locomotive has a... tender behind! 
John
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Posted - February 14 2012 : 7:11:26 PM
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* Well I am getting into this weeks LOTW also. I've been working on this locomotive for 2 day. Just getting it running. I got it Sunday at the New Hope train show. It came in a tray with a 0-6-0t, 4 small passenger cars, 1 large passenger car, 4 flat cars and other stuff. All Fleischmann. It is a decapod, 2-10-0. Fleischmann named the engine the "Black Mustang ".
It is stock # 4175. It is a DB 50 class locomotive numbered 50-058. I had to fix a few things but it is a running locomotive now. The first cars behind it, came with it.
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Posted - February 14 2012 : 7:50:20 PM
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hey, SCVR66 What is the car up on the platform?
verry nice locos guys
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