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 Posted - August 03 2012 : 11:36:35 PM
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Okay so i've shown you guys a couple odd ball engines for sale on ebay and while i dont think anything will top the morphed bachmann 0-6-0s into one 0-6-6-0, I found another dumb and unusual customization!
 an ahm jw bowker and a combine combined!! WHAT THE HECK! man people will combine anything and make it a model!
 here's a side view
if you want to see more photos hers the item number 261075011546
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Posted - August 04 2012 : 12:02:32 AM
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That's actually very cool.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/HO-Sierra-Railroad-2-4-0-Overland-Type-Steam-Loco-w-3-Old-Time-Passenger-Cars-/261075011546
I don't know if there's an exact prototype, but many railroads circa 1900 had Winans type Camelback inspection locos like that with a coach atop the boiler.
/tyco/forum/uploaded/NickelPlate759/800px-DL%26W_Inspection_engine.jpg
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Posted - August 04 2012 : 12:11:22 AM
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I have room for it on my shelf...
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Posted - August 04 2012 : 06:09:00 AM
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The "oddball" locomotive certainly existed... The gas-electric locomotives actually followed it in it's footsteps.
There's an older book called "A Locomotive Engineer's Album" by ... George Abill... something like that, but it had a whole chapter on such locomotives. And many of those locomotives also eluded many photographers... "It's just a track inspection locomotive... It's just a 'test' locomotive... who wants to photograph that ugly thing?"
Perhaps someone will include such locomotives that mimicked the Elevated Forneys, but was on a single frame, a 2-4-4T, such as the one built as a sellable model on eBay.
I will try to get a picture out of my CN Passenger book... the basic body looks like an 80' wooden passenger car, but on closer inspection, one end has the 2-2 with drive-rod and steam cylinder in perfect view... <o-O-------------------oo ...as if a tiny four wheel steam engine (see LOTW Mustang_N_Trains' entry of his "It is a ATT Lil' Miner:..")... as if the tiny locomotive had backed into the end of a coach. Pilot wheel, cylinder, drive-rod, and drive wheel... all visible.
Now, that said, General Electric, in 1991, decided it would try coal power on a locomotive... 1991 Coal powered diesel locomotive...
So, we are not asking you to stand-down with the odd-ball locomotive posting.
Some of us can be old enough to be grand-daddys(and grand-mommies)... we've read train books, looked at pictures and definitions of "onesies and twoseies" odd locomotives.
You're very passionate with trains, models and prototypes of Trains.  
Look up GMDH-1 and the Studebaker automobile... on wheels of steel or rubber, you'll do a double take on these vehicles that look like they were built with two front ends.
John
p.s. Today, Mexico runs some of its passenger trains with a loaded auto-rack... A present "Car-Go-With-You" for passengers who want to use their own cars at their destination instead of renting one.
Auto-Train did this, CN did this as well... a few decades ago.
I don't have a one track mind. It depends on the turn-out.
"I love your catenary!"
Is that a power-trip or just another pick-up line?
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Posted - August 04 2012 : 12:09:07 PM
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I admit it looks cool but i dont know where he got his prototype from 
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Posted - August 04 2012 : 1:32:13 PM
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Who knows. I have added to my watchlist.
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Posted - August 04 2012 : 4:18:02 PM
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Ha! Well good luck to all who want it!
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Posted - August 04 2012 : 4:35:37 PM
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Zebrails, what Studebaker? I'm thinking of the Starlight.
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Posted - August 04 2012 : 5:37:59 PM
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It just occurred to me that curves will be a problem for this thing. With the coach body fixed to the back of the loco, the rear of it is going to swing out. The coach would need to slide on the rear truck bolster like an articulated's boiler does on its front set of drivers. That also poses a problem for a body mounted coupler.
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Posted - August 04 2012 : 6:23:43 PM
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That is true. Though body mounted couplers are better at negotiatign corners then trck mounted
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Posted - August 19 2012 : 2:14:47 PM
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Here's this week's oddball of the week.
I saw this at the show and as soon as I picked it up to look at it the seller said I could have it. I had to take it just to post a photo of it.
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Posted - August 19 2012 : 3:55:35 PM
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| hi ray,not a coal powered loco but a COLD powered loco,love it,ken
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Posted - August 19 2012 : 4:56:39 PM
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I think I'll use it for making beer runs.
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Posted - August 19 2012 : 6:40:33 PM
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quote:Here's this week's oddball of the week.
I saw this at the show and as soon as I picked it up to look at it the seller said I could have it. I had to take it just to post a photo of it.
Originally posted by Ray Marinaccio - August 19 2012 : 2:14:47 PM
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What we got here is "Failure to trainicate!"
Thats what looks to be an IHC GP18, a TYCO F-7a and the reffer looks to be a TYCO model......
Well thats one way to cover up the engine and generator compartment with a slightly easier access!
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Many have tried to, and failed, ya just can't repair stupid...
Do NOT try to Idiot-Proof anything!!!! God, will simply create a better......IDIOT!
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Posted - August 21 2012 : 05:10:14 AM
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quote:I think I'll use it for making beer runs.
Originally posted by Ray Marinaccio - August 19 2012 : 4:56:39 PM
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...A SWIFT BEER RUN.
there's a song on YouTube called "Beer Run"...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyCPhIjmk-s
right?
John
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