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 Posted - November 18 2012 : 08:39:35 AM
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My loco this week is an electric by Marklin, a DB unit. Picked this up at the Timonium MD show a few weeks ago. I think it's already DCC'ed. Anyway, haven't had a chance to test it out yet.
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Posted - November 18 2012 : 10:07:21 AM
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and another one of those bargains,sold a loco and got this as part payment,ken
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Posted - November 18 2012 : 11:32:41 AM
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My locomotive submission is a custom painted MoPac Alco RS3 of AHM origin.
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Posted - November 18 2012 : 11:46:38 AM
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Something Tyco for the Tyco Forum. This is an auction picture of an CB&Q SD24 I won this week.
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Posted - November 18 2012 : 12:08:48 PM
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quote:and another one of those bargains,sold a loco and got this as part payment,ken
Originally posted by catfordken - November 18 2012 : 10:07:21 AM
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Ken,
your killin' me here!  I'm jealous! NICE B&O Rivarossi 4-6-2!
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Posted - November 18 2012 : 12:34:06 PM
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My loco, one I've shown before but now its dramatically different! My Rare Roundhouse David lee's Circus 2-8-0. When originally built by me as a kit I painted everything black. found out that I had white paint so I stripped the paint on the boiler, primed it, and shot 2 coats of white paint on it for a circus look! It is operational but just needs new main rods. The compressors were reinstalled yesterday.
 here's what she looked like back in august, this was the day I pulled everything off my old layout
I buy, repair, and collect
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Posted - November 18 2012 : 12:43:22 PM
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| sorry john,nothing meant to hurt
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Posted - November 18 2012 : 2:30:44 PM
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A recent acquisition -- a Hobbyline 0-4-0 PRR A5
I know that Hobbyline acquired the John English dies in the late 50's. Does anyone know if Bowser acquired them from Hobbyline after that?
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Posted - November 18 2012 : 2:59:38 PM
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My lotw...needs a top mounting screw if anyone has one...Model power E7A
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Posted - November 18 2012 : 3:38:46 PM
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quote:sorry john,nothing meant to hurt
Originally posted by catfordken - November 18 2012 : 12:43:22 PM
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OHH I know its just another steamer, I'm looking for is all!
I want at some point to have a couple of the President class B&O steamers, to go with my passenger sets......
Nice model tho!
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Posted - November 18 2012 : 3:40:39 PM
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quote:A recent acquisition -- a Hobbyline 0-4-0 PRR A5
I know that Hobbyline acquired the John English dies in the late 50's. Does anyone know if Bowser acquired them from Hobbyline after that?
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Originally posted by Redwoods - November 18 2012 : 2:30:44 PM
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Thomas, Yes Bowser got all those molds I do believe, as "John English" is under the Bowser name now, and have since been discontinued from the Bowser line a few years ago!
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Posted - November 18 2012 : 3:41:55 PM
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quote:
My lotw...needs a top mounting screw if anyone has one...Model power E7A
Originally posted by caboose 1Â -Â November 18 2012Â :Â 2:59:38 PM
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Ted, I got you covered on that screw! If you can wait till I get home from Vacation, I have the factory part!
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Posted - November 18 2012 : 4:06:18 PM
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quote:My loco this week is an electric by Marklin, a DB unit. Picked this up at the Timonium MD show a few weeks ago. I think it's already DCC'ed. Anyway, haven't had a chance to test it out yet.
Jerry
Originally posted by AMC_Gremlin_GTÂ -Â November 18 2012Â :Â 08:39:35 AM
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Most marklin is 3 rail AC. If it has a center rail pickup dont put it on your track.
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Posted - November 18 2012 : 4:10:44 PM
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quote:A recent acquisition -- a Hobbyline 0-4-0 PRR A5
I know that Hobbyline acquired the John English dies in the late 50's. Does anyone know if Bowser acquired them from Hobbyline after that?
--Thomas
Originally posted by Redwoods - November 18 2012 : 2:30:44 PM
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Lionel not Bowser wound up with the HObbyline and John English dies.
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Posted - November 18 2012 : 4:18:12 PM
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My loco of the week is a Tyco mantua 0-6-0 switcher painted for the Jersey Central. Got it today with some other stuff.
frank
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Posted - November 18 2012 : 5:01:38 PM
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Here is my Loco of the week, a bachmann 4-8-4 Norfolk & Western J class. This was my favorite until yesterday when I got my J class Spectrum, now this one is on ebay.
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Posted - November 18 2012 : 5:31:54 PM
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Frank,
I'm sorry but I'm not sure that accurate! See the following link:
http://www.bowser-trains.com/hoemrrs/store/store.htm
As far as I know "English" and "John English" are/were one and the same!
I've been wrong before, but I'm not to sure on this one!
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Posted - November 18 2012 : 9:26:47 PM
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quote:Something Tyco for the Tyco Forum. This is an auction picture of an CB&Q SD24 I won this week.
Originally posted by Alco Fan - November 18 2012 : 11:46:38 AM
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I have this same engine. I cleaned it up and put new brushes in the powertorque motor. I painted the truck sideframes black to make it more CB&Q friendly.
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Posted - November 19 2012 : 01:09:44 AM
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My first truly foreign locomotive! A vintage Fleischmann 0-6-0.
From what I've been able to Google this thing came into being sometime in the 1950's? It's as heavy as a locomotive twice its size. Needs cleaned inside and out though. It runs, but you can tell it needs service bad. But I've been getting a bizarre 0-4-0/0-6-0 collection together so this works!
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Posted - November 19 2012 : 08:08:16 AM
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quote:Frank,
I'm sorry but I'm not sure that accurate! See the following link:
http://www.bowser-trains.com/hoemrrs/store/store.htm
As far as I know "English" and "John English" are/were one and the same!
I've been wrong before, but I'm not to sure on this one!
Originally posted by EM-1Â -Â November 18 2012Â :Â 5:31:54 PM
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* About this subject. The 2 English families are not the same ones. They may have been related ,but not the same. As to the HObbyline-John English company and their dies, they went to Lionel in around 1956 0r 57. Lionel used them to produce their own first line of HO trains.
* Comparing there products will show the heritage of Lionel's first HO line they made.
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Posted - November 19 2012 : 08:09:43 AM
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OK John
Thanx!!
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Posted - November 19 2012 : 09:38:43 AM
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badman55,
Thanks for your comment.
The painting of the trucks would make it look more like the working version since it is numbered "502" as it was for the Burlington and was made in May of 1959 according to the "Second Diesel Spotters Guide" by Jerry A. Pinkepank.
I was on my way to post this info and saw your comment. I hope this one runs good and it seems to have all of its plows since a lot of the ones I see don't.
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Posted - November 19 2012 : 10:50:15 AM
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My LOTW:
Dockyard Baldwin The Puffing Billy HOn3 Brass Locomotive 2-6-2T PFM
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Posted - November 19 2012 : 3:17:09 PM
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Tyco Royal Blue 2-8-0:
" Heck with counting 'em rivets, TRAINS ARE FOR FUN! Not called the Mad Scientist for nothing either!"
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Posted - November 19 2012 : 5:35:50 PM
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Nice mint Rossi Pacific, Ken.
Gary, whoever painted that RS2 in MoPac did a nice job.
Ted, the screw for that E7 is smaller and metric, but you can tap out the frame for a 2-56 flathead.
Love that 2-6-2, Sean. What is protruding from the front of the cylinders, or is that part of the lead truck? 
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Posted - November 21 2012 : 3:38:25 PM
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I have shown this loco alot but I thought I'd make EM-1 drool for it
AHM NYC Hudson 4-6-4
Its only missing the one steps on the front left of tender & still not running 
I had to do 2 seperate pics cause its so long
Also in case anyone wonders what is hanging on the tender Thats a water scoop They put troughs inbetween the rails to scoop up water so the non-stoppassenger trains wouldn't have to stop for water *geek!*
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Posted - November 30 2012 : 10:26:38 PM
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Ben,
As per your direction in PM.....
That J-1 is nice, but I got 2 of them, one built, awaiting painting (needed some replacement parts that don't have matching road numbers) and another one in parts thats going to be built!
Have ya run it yet? It should run pretty good!
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