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 Posted - March 20 2013 : 11:46:33 AM
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this arrived today,99p about $1.50,old but would love to know maker,and age ken
looks like bronze/copper
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Posted - March 20 2013 : 3:11:34 PM
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| Ken, sure looks like the "Cab Forward" casting made by Kemtron for the Varney Lil Joe. It was to make gimick cab forward out of the little 0-4-0 dock sider. Gary
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Posted - March 20 2013 : 3:14:44 PM
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cheers gary ken
Edited by - catfordken on March 20 2013 3:24:49 PM
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Posted - March 20 2013 : 3:27:18 PM
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Gary's got it. hit the nail right on the head. Kemptron. But yours is a cast metal copy. Kemptron made brass and plactic. Is the something wrong with the pilot. It seems to have no bottom v shaped bar to tie all those pilot spokes together. Cant see it in the photo.
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Posted - March 20 2013 : 3:31:16 PM
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thanks frank,i know the platform is missing from photo above,but it never had one unless it was seperate,and if it broke off never seen a clean break like it,i will repair it with a little bit of plasticard or sheet brass ken
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Posted - March 20 2013 : 4:13:08 PM
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What are your plans for it, Ken?
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Posted - March 20 2013 : 4:46:05 PM
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| no idea at the moment mate
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Posted - March 21 2013 : 04:56:57 AM
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would do this!  - Erich
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Posted - March 21 2013 : 06:40:38 AM
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K4-5389, Great call!!
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Posted - March 21 2013 : 3:10:01 PM
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That Cab-Forward part was actually designed by Kemtron to make a Mantua 0-4-0 a Cab Forwards! I think however, Dan over at Yardbird Classic Trains also has castings of the same part, just not in brass/bronze as the original but in Zinc, or Antimony Allow (which is also solderable)
Nice find Ken!
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Posted - March 21 2013 : 4:06:54 PM
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Not so sure if it was meant originally for the Mantua or Varney Lil Joe first, but they look great on either.
Here are some of mine:
You know me Ken... I can't seem to have just one! I must have 5-6 more of those cab forward pieces scattered about too! As for the Dan Bush diecast version, you can see a new in the package one in one of the photos as well as the one on the Mantua 0-4-0.
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Posted - March 21 2013 : 5:14:09 PM
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sean only thing i can do is  ken
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Posted - March 21 2013 : 6:21:25 PM
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Wow kool, I have got to get me one of those with the pilot!
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Posted - March 22 2013 : 09:36:38 AM
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| Looks like brass or bronze to me in the initial picture. Also looks like it was made to go right on the Dockside shell.
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