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Bought for it's running gear and it runs good. It looks as if it had a hard life.
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Posted - July 08 2012 : 09:41:54 AM
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Mantua GP 20 with Dynamic Brake Blister...
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Posted - July 08 2012 : 11:39:11 AM
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 i've been working on this old athearn blue box SW1200, i gave it new drive shafts and gears, and new armature shafts. It runs for the first time since about 2003! I have to install the couplers and right side truck covers then she'll be good to go! She runs like a champ now, at first she was incredibly loud.
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Posted - July 08 2012 : 1:39:56 PM
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I bought an old Tyco General last week. It runs poorly, so I'll give her a tune up this week. I think there's a piece missing from the top of the smoke stack.
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Posted - July 08 2012 : 3:48:00 PM
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I bought the running gear for what I thought was an SD40-2, turns out it was SD40T-2 running gear. The SD40 shell wouldn't fit so I found the SP tunnel motor shell. Still looking for a set of handrails. It has DCC and is a nice runner.
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Posted - July 08 2012 : 8:56:24 PM
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Hello all!
Here is my LOTW:
It is a rather dusty Mantua Busy Little "B":
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Posted - July 09 2012 : 1:11:00 PM
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my latest project,loco was part of package,no tender,so thanks to a member,i got this tender as a stop gap,nearly there body wise,a few body parts to solder back on,then off for a painting,ken
hopefully end up like this
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Posted - July 09 2012 : 4:20:06 PM
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quote:
hopefully end up like this
/tyco/forum/uploaded/catfordken/20120709133227_nyc7718_rcl.jpg
Originally posted by catfordken - July 09 2012 : 1:11:00 PM
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I think I have the boiler check valves you need Ken:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/370496348261?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649
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Posted - July 09 2012 : 7:38:51 PM
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Here's an A-B-B-A consist of NH C-Liners, all 60's vintage. Both powered A units are smooth, quiet runners.
Bask in their McGinnis-ness. The little aphid on the lead unit is.
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Posted - July 09 2012 : 8:32:01 PM
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My LOTW is an Athearn GP-9, picked up from the donation boxes at my club. Haven't tried to run it yet, but will go well with my B&O consist I'm building now.
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Posted - July 10 2012 : 08:46:01 AM
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quote:Here's an A-B-B-A consist of NH C-Liners, all 60's vintage. Both powered A units are smooth, quiet runners.
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Bask in their McGinnis-ness. The little aphid on the lead unit is.
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Awesome Nelson! I love those units! One of the very first I ever has as a teen!
I have a pile of C-Liners stripped of their paint and sitting in a box somewhere waiting to be custom painted and lettered for New Haven! ..you know.. for when I have some free time... LOL!
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Posted - July 10 2012 : 11:07:28 AM
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Here is my LOTW. I was debating on placing this in the Set of the Week forum but these locomotives are permanently together. The 6516 is custom painted, lettered and detailed. This unit has the motor drive in it. The 4266 is an old Athearn Blue Box which I gutted out to make room for a Tsunami sound decoder and two speakers. I also added some weights to it. You can see the motor and lighting wires between the two locomotives. I love this set! I am still adding detail parts to the 4266 and her trucks need to be painted silver still. These two locomotives ran together in Crawford Notch for many years at the Conway Scenic Railroad.
Looks like I should have dusted them off first!
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Posted - July 10 2012 : 11:39:40 AM
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why does the B&M unit have buffers? 
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 Posted - July 10 2012 : 12:00:15 PM
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quote:why does the B&M unit have buffers?
Originally posted by SCVR66Â -Â July 10 2012Â :Â 11:39:40 AM
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Those are ditch lights that haven't been painted yet. They also need to be shortened because as you can see, they're sticking out a little too far. Once the paint and lenses go on it'll look more like ditch lights and less like buffers 
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Posted - July 10 2012 : 2:38:56 PM
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Thanks, Sean. I thought some NH diesels might get your attention. I paid $7 for the first of the B units, and $5 for the latest. They're going for ridiculous amounts on eBay, so it pays to scrounge.
CSRR, those F-units are beautiful. Nicely done. Is the one marked for Conway Scenic in a heritage scheme, or is that their own design?
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Posted - July 10 2012 : 3:26:08 PM
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quote:Thanks, Sean. I thought some NH diesels might get your attention. I paid $7 for the first of the B units, and $5 for the latest. They're going for ridiculous amounts on eBay, so it pays to scrounge.
CSRR, those F-units are beautiful. Nicely done. Is the one marked for Conway Scenic in a heritage scheme, or is that their own design?
Originally posted by NickelPlate759Â -Â July 10 2012Â :Â 2:38:56 PM
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Thanks! The scheme on the 6516 (as well as her sister unit 6505) is a modified version of the CN heritage scheme using their own colors. It was by far the best paint scheme to come from that railroad.
http://www.railpictures.net/images/d1/6/3/0/9630.1253639837.jpg
http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?1998112616014800342.jpg:bysearch:conway+6516:SEARCHTYPE=SIMPLE&PAGE=10&BOOL=ALL&SEARCHSTRING=conway+6516
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Posted - July 13 2012 : 10:16:49 AM
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A ANNA Railroad Mikado #717.
This a a Aristo-Craft locomotive.
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Posted - July 13 2012 : 10:50:29 AM
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CSRR,
Excellent drawings.
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Posted - July 13 2012 : 2:44:45 PM
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My LOTW--A Bowser (former Varney) "Old Lady" consolidation. Very nice condition but came without a tender, so I used one from an ill-fated PFM brass loco. It's a great fit. Currently it's undecorated.
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Posted - July 13 2012 : 4:23:23 PM
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| very very nice loco Chris,what railroad are you going to make it,frisco or what ken
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Posted - July 13 2012 : 4:55:06 PM
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| Possibly Frisco, but I'm stil looking at prototypes to try to at least get close. Apparently the SP had some like this, and my book on the KCM&O (Orient) shows some that look similar which were actually ex-NYC units. So it will probably stay undec. for a while. Chris
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Posted - July 14 2012 : 11:58:04 AM
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NKP - Love that set Hard to find?
CSRR7470 - Never mind making ditch lights Just add ones that light up  Rode that line before?
eaglerock109 - I always did ike that "almost SF/SP merger" scheme Been my fave for years
It rates up there with my other fave The Rock & Route Rock scheme hehe
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Posted - July 14 2012 : 9:51:35 PM
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Ben, the B units are harder to find than the A's, but they do show up on eBay pretty frequently. I obtained all of them at various shows.
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