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In what will likely be my last Model Train Locomotive acquisition for a very long time, it took a very long time.
Using Ken's (Catfordken) photo which is better than I can manage with present skill set, this is my recently Repatriated PFM/Van Hobbies Brass CPR Model D-10 4-6-0 "Ten Wheeler". Ken and I started what would become, I think a four Locomotive deal dating back to when Moses was in short pants. That's assuming I got my 0-4-2T from Him?
Anyway here you are the last of an excellent and patient on Ken's part deal. 
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Posted - December 08 2012 : 10:52:30 PM
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Drooling into my keyboard --> 
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Posted - December 08 2012 : 10:54:59 PM
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Well since you're drooling I'll bequeath it to you in my will!
If we get together at Christmas again this year and it goes "Tactical" like last year you may get it sooner than later!!! 
I'll try to behave. 
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Posted - December 08 2012 : 10:58:31 PM
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That's a great looking CN loco! Nicely finished.
Here's my LOTW, a Bachmann 0-6-0 with DCC
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Posted - December 09 2012 : 04:55:41 AM
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Speaking of 0-4-2T's, is this one of them? Got this at the TCA show yesterday, my first of this type. No maker listed on the bottom. Seems to be in good shape. What were 0-4-2T's used for, shunting around a dock mostly?
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Posted - December 09 2012 : 08:53:08 AM
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this is the 0-4-0t that gareth refers to,i will post it as mine although this is in canada ken
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Posted - December 09 2012 : 10:11:47 AM
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That is the one Kenneth!
Thanks.
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Posted - December 09 2012 : 11:32:07 AM
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Bought this Bachmann U40C cheap from an online friend as "will not run"...
...once it arrived, I found out why...
Alas...my first defeat, I've always got then at least to sputter a bit in the past...
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Posted - December 09 2012 : 11:40:22 AM
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I just got these at a train show today. 2 are powered making them engines.
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Posted - December 09 2012 : 12:08:09 PM
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Jerry, your 0-4-2T is a Athearn Lil' Monster.
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Posted - December 09 2012 : 12:17:08 PM
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This is a combination of AHM, MDC and New One parts.
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Posted - December 09 2012 : 12:34:24 PM
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quote:Bought this Bachmann U40C cheap from an online friend as "will not run"...
..once it arrived, I found out why...
Alas...my first defeat, I've always got then at least to sputter a bit in the past...
Originally posted by shaygetz - December 09 2012 : 11:32:07 AM
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Shaygetz, if you hold your lips just right, and push some air through them, while pushing the engine manually, you may get a nice sounding sputter! Instead of motorboating, you'll be Uboating. Not sure how good you are with a diesel horn sound,though.
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Posted - December 09 2012 : 1:08:07 PM
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Neat looking model. Let me guess, the tender is the New One part?
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quote:This is a combination of AHM, MDC and New One parts.
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Posted - December 09 2012 : 1:09:20 PM
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Going to remotor it, shaygetz? I certainly would 
here is one I got thru a Craigslist ad I posted for $5
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Posted - December 09 2012 : 1:48:17 PM
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My loco is a Rivarossi Undecorated 0-6-0T Got it off ebay a year ago, has an added moving bell and smooth black paint! I love it! Recently came out of service for some frame work but now that it's finished she runs like new!
I buy, repair, and collect
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Posted - December 09 2012 : 2:46:01 PM
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Those grabs on the back of the 0-6-0T are a nice touch! 
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Posted - December 09 2012 : 2:51:11 PM
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They sure are! Thanks!
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Posted - December 09 2012 : 6:24:54 PM
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quote:Going to remotor it, shaygetz? I certainly would
Originally posted by microbusss - December 09 2012 : 1:09:20 PM
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Too many of the key parts i the gear train are gone, the trucks are fine, it's the gear towers that are missing worms and clips. It's pretty easy going from there if the parts were there.
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Posted - December 09 2012 : 6:51:11 PM
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Hey Shay;
Too bad it's not an Athearn. I still have that Athearn Dealers Service kit I need to find a home for/....
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Posted - December 09 2012 : 8:53:20 PM
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Heres my latest find an early Tyco CP F9 Its near mint and runs perfect too!!!!!
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Posted - December 09 2012 : 10:38:26 PM
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I like the colors on that CP.
Here's something for this week, until I get more unpacked and figure out what I've shown before. It's an Athearn switcher. Notice that I have no layout to stage things on.. I'll get it back bigger and better someday.
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Posted - December 09 2012 : 11:59:06 PM
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quote:
Shay,
Need a frame for that? I have one JUST like it, and THEN I have a powered one thats a Bachmann C40-8, (which is what your locomotive is by the way!) PM me if interested for a complete frame to it!
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Posted - December 10 2012 : 12:01:42 AM
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Gareth,
What is that your speaking of? An Athearn dealers Service kit? To what? I may be interested in that, myself!
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Posted - December 10 2012 : 12:48:14 PM
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quote:Neat looking model. Let me guess, the tender is the New One part?
-Thomas
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Thanks Thomas,
You're right, The tender is a New One tender. I had to replace the trucks with MDC trucks though. The original trucks were disinigrating.
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Posted - December 10 2012 : 5:23:12 PM
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Ray,
That New One Models is off a 4-6-0....I've got one in blue B&O with a #13xx" series number on it in gold!
Nice tenders, but for the type a little big.....Be GREAT for back dating a 2-8-0 tho!
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Posted - December 11 2012 : 09:38:14 AM
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[quote]What were 0-4-2T's used for, shunting around a dock mostly?
That 0-4-2 you have there looks like an Athearn "Lil' Monster", which is not actually based on any specific prototype, though there were locomotives that looked almost like it. It was athearn's attempt to get a steam locomotive into the market, while they had some sort of production issue with a different one they were trying to make (4-6-2, 2-8-2, IDK which they were waiting on)
Anyway, real 0-4-2's were usually narrow gauge, and used in logging, mining, and plantation work, however this one is standard gauge and much beefier. I'd say it'd work as a switcher in the docks, with a slightly larger fuel capacity than it's 0-4-0 cousins. Athearn had listed it as good for short commuter runs, shuttles and 'factory runs' for hauling 1-3 coaches of factory workers down the spur to work, so something like that would be good.
If I get a layout going, that kind of engine would be running the branchline to bring folks to work at the coal mine. Though it would need to be coal fired to make sense there....
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Posted - December 11 2012 : 10:05:31 AM
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Here are my locomotives for the week. Quite a find for me, as the Flea market usually only yields stock tyco, bachmann, ahm and maybe an athearn. It was sold me by a guy who aquire a lot of static displays, with glued-down trucks, missing motors, and sloppy paint jobs. I had never seen this seller before, but his locomotives were heaped on a flimsy box with parts and tenders hanging and crashing over the side. Looked like junk
But this:
caught my attention immediantly. It is a bachmann 0-6-0 that looks to be bashed into a camelback, but it needs a bigger firebox. Needs new paint, has no drivetrain, but it's so.... different. Tender is a modified Model Power or AHM from an A-3.
I need some help with this one here,
No obvious signs of kitbashing, it says it's a mantua on the drive-wheel retainer plate, but I've never seen a mantua with such small driving wheels. It's got guts in there, it'll run, but the paint and roadname have got to go. It'll make a good branchline consolidation.
These two, and a stock tender for the switcher, for $23. If there's anything left of the parts pile, I grab the centepede tender, motorless 2-8-8-2 and other giants.
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Posted - December 11 2012 : 12:29:27 PM
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That Camelback is really neat. Someone did a nice job on that. It should be possible to stick a pancake motor and gears back into it... not the greatest drive train, but at least it will run.
The 2-8-0 frame is from the Mantua 0-8-0 kit, which was their Consolidation frame with switcher drivers.
http://www.ho-scaletrains.net/mantua-locos/id60.html
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Posted - December 11 2012 : 1:14:04 PM
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Looks as if someone used 0-4-0 or 0-6-0 drivers from a Mantua. Neat at best.
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Posted - December 11 2012 : 1:41:21 PM
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Nice find Harrison! I would have grabed up that 2-8-0 myself.....(I'm trying to get a small 2-8-0 fleet going as I need 2-8-0 types in both the B&O and Western Maryland so.....)
Interesting to see what was done, or being done to the Bachmann 0-6-0! Not a bad job to say the lest....But, I agree the firebox needs to be bigger along with a overhand roof over the firebox doors!
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Posted - December 11 2012 : 2:12:13 PM
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The State Belt RR in San Francisco had a number of 0-4-2s in their roster for dock switching.
http://sanfranciscotrains.org/SBRR-Roster.html
-Thomas
quote:Speaking of 0-4-2T's, is this one of them? Got this at the TCA show yesterday, my first of this type. No maker listed on the bottom. Seems to be in good shape. What were 0-4-2T's used for, shunting around a dock mostly?
/tyco/forum/uploaded/amc_gremlin_gt/20121209045511_LOTW_Dec9_2012_042_steam.jpg
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Posted - December 12 2012 : 10:53:12 AM
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This is my LOTW
It is a custom painted B&M GP9/11:
Not bad for a ~$38 purchase.
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Posted - December 12 2012 : 12:34:25 PM
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yeah not bad at all, M_n_T Did Boston & Maine have their locos painted that way IRL?
I do like the Minuteman on the nose
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Posted - December 12 2012 : 12:38:44 PM
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| hi sean nice loco,nice paint work ken
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Posted - December 12 2012 : 2:28:54 PM
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quote:hi sean nice loco,nice paint work ken
Originally posted by catfordken - December 12 2012 : 12:38:44 PM
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Thanks Ken,
It is a nice piece. I figured the paint job was worth the money. @ microbusss.. I only have a few B&M engines. They are not very common. I am not sure what they all are like.
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Posted - December 12 2012 : 3:43:14 PM
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just for you ben the real thing and same running number ken
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Posted - December 12 2012 : 7:12:38 PM
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| ok thanks I wasn't sure Sorry Real cool
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Posted - December 12 2012 : 8:17:30 PM
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| no probs ken
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Posted - December 13 2012 : 12:23:01 AM
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Nice looking geep MnT! The walkways really look walked on! I've always been partial to the 1st gen geeps because that's what worked the branchline yard down from my house when I was little. For the longest time they WERE railroading for me! Thanks for posting!
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Posted - December 13 2012 : 10:15:00 AM
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quote: quote:hi sean nice loco,nice paint work ken
Originally posted by catfordken - December 12 2012 : 12:38:44 PM
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Thanks Ken,
It is a nice piece. I figured the paint job was worth the money. @ microbusss.. I only have a few B&M engines. They are not very common. I am not sure what they all are like.
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Hi Sean; I was looking at your photos on Flicker.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9977705@N05/sets/72157623237326610/?page=2
* I have seen most of them before. May I say for me it is very interesting. I really like old trains. The 3 most interest photos are those of your wife burning your HO train layout. At least she isn't seen dancing around the fire, CHEERING. ! iT must have been a tragic day in your life. How did you overcome that bad day, and keep your trains. Or were the photos just done in fun.
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Posted - December 13 2012 : 1:06:08 PM
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quote:
Hi Sean; I was looking at your photos on Flicker.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9977705@N05/sets/72157623237326610/?page=2
* I have seen most of them before. May I say for me it is very interesting. I really like old trains. The 3 most interest photos are those of your wife burning your HO train layout. At least she isn't seen dancing around the fire, CHEERING. ! iT must have been a tragic day in your life. How did you overcome that bad day, and keep your trains. Or were the photos just done in fun.
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Hi Frank!
I was not staged and she more than overly enthusiastic about setting it ablaze!
Because it was in the attic and we were ripping off the roof to add 4 room upstairs, I had to make room and it was pretty outdated anyway. I'm ok as it needed to be completely done over track-wise. I have my sights set on another one though. The gent had it posted on eBay but it did not sell. I told him if he still has it in 5 years to contact me and I will try an buy it:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Amazing-train-set-11-x-15-incredible-detail-none-like-it-on-E-bay-/160934065299?item=160934065299&ViewItem&nma=true&si=OWsglsxacggCZ0MOnSLuV2A81rM%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
The price he is asking for it is more than reasonable as far as I am concerned.
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Posted - December 15 2012 : 7:14:59 PM
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GP20, custom painted, PT power, all Tyco.
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Posted - December 15 2012 : 8:02:29 PM
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Here is my B&M, custom paint...
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Posted - December 15 2012 : 10:45:18 PM
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That B&M GP20 looks AWESOME! Where did you find the decals to custom painted like that?
VERY NICE!
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Posted - December 15 2012 : 11:37:15 PM
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Well now its my turn for the week series of whats come to me....
Anyway, first up, I've got a Bachmann Spectrum "Light" 4-8-2 Mountain, with the tender changed, as see here:
This was a trade from the other side of the big pond, from one of our own forum members!
As well as the following:
VERY pleased with everything!
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Posted - December 16 2012 : 11:00:54 PM
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I like that a lot Mike!
Big B&M fan here too!
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