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For this week, my contribution to the LOTW is a Bachmann Santa Fe livery U-Boat looking diesel that kinda works.

-Steve

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Toasty, really like it. Looks like it halved a
gasoline tanker at some point.
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Toasty, really like it. Looks like it halved a
gasoline tanker at some point.

Originally posted by Chops124 - April 05 2015 :  10:16:45 AM

Yeah, it does work, as I said, okay. It just needs some lube now that I've got it mostly cleaned up.

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Noooooooo! That would be like taking steel wool
to the Mona Lisa. Where you going to find
another with that cute grubbiness?
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Noooooooo! That would be like taking steel wool
to the Mona Lisa. Where you going to find
another with that cute grubbiness?

Originally posted by Chops124 - April 05 2015 :  12:27:42 PM

My parents wouldn't let any of that stuff in the house till I clean them good enough, no matter how much worse they may look after cleaning them.

-Steve

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Re-built Lionel Rectifier. Made in 1960 only as best I can tell. It is riding on an Athearn chassis. This one took me about a week to fix.

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This engine was in the huge 4-bin lot I bought last week. I believe this to be my lone AC Gilbert HO gauge steam engine. Haven't tried it yet. Supposed to have a working smoke unit, too. circa 1955 . It is missing one axle on the trailing truck.

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Re-built Lionel Rectifier. Made in 1960 only as best I can tell. It is riding on an Athearn chassis. This one took me about a week to fix.

Originally posted by rbturner - April 05 2015 :  1:25:39 PM


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Loving the Rectifier! Wire grabs, brass pantograph... that thing is pretty well tricked out
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This engine was in the huge 4-bin lot I bought last week. I believe this to be my lone AC Gilbert HO gauge steam engine. Haven't tried it yet. Supposed to have a working smoke unit, too. circa 1955 . It is missing one axle on the trailing truck.

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Originally posted by AMC_Gremlin_GT - April 05 2015 :  1:35:15 PM

But honestly, that's not all that big of a deal, I'm sure there's parts out there. Nice find.

-Steve

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My LOTW is a Roco made and boxed spirit of 76. The loco is marked TYCO made in Austria on the underside and comes with the plastic MU2 motor and is brand new /never used. Talking to the seller at the swapmeet, this item and others I have been showing came from a hobby warehouse distributor in South Australia and have been sitting there for years. Brother and I had one of these when we were kids and these are good runners,he kept it so I am happy with this purchase.
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That '76 is a beauty. Not seen one quite like that
ever. That Peco track work has a nice fluid
look to it. I'd really like to see the rest of that
track plan; I have never seen an all Peco
track plan before.

It is great to see work from Down
Under, this has a fresh, new look. Please keep
it coming!

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Thanks Chops for the interest and kind words . I will post details of layout in Layouts forum. As for the S of 76 , I believe tyco outsourced manufacture for short periods in the 70s to other manufacturers like Roco for various reasons. Roco made its own version of the mu2 motor and it seems to run ok. I remember buying one of these in the mid 70s as a kid after owning some power tourqe tycos that ran hit and miss and thinking this tyco was awesome because it actually ran. Tony
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Very nice engines. This next one a tyco classic.
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Looks like you've been keepin' pretty busy Randy . . . and doin' some nice work.

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Re-built Lionel Rectifier. Made in 1960 only as best I can tell. It is riding on an Athearn chassis. This one took me about a week to fix.

Originally posted by rbturner - April 05 2015 :  1:25:39 PM

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Thanks for the kind words and support everyone. These are the accomplishments of an old fart.
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Spent a happy childhood growing up not far from
Hamilton, in Ancaster, Ontario. Those CN GP 20's
brought back happy memories of a Canadian
childhood- then later I discovered Tyco, it's
been all down hill ever since! Downhill, because
that is the only way Tyco will function!!!
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A repost of a repost, but those Geep 20's in the Wet Noodle paint scheme
just brings out the Canadian in me. This is a 17 car Jello train, also
featured under Conrail colors in BOTW
and it works great, but the weight and
drag of the thing really tests those motors and I've gone through
quite a few traction tires.

What I'd really love to do is put that Lionel Rectifier to the
acid test and see if she can haul the Jellomania Express.

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The rectifier is basically an Athearn GP-7. I imagine it would pull 17 fairly well rolling cars on flat track. I did no major modifications to it other than added directional lighting.
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This week a model power made in Brazil PRR H2 class consolidation 2-8-0. Actually a very good copy of a H2 class locomotive.


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Unnnnnnh... that's the sound of getting the
wind knocked out of me. That H2 is a
dandy. Would love to see it tour the
winter-autumn layout I'm working on.
See layouts. Would look so nice
winding through the covered
bridge.
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Unnnnnnh... that's the sound of getting the
wind knocked out of me. That H2 is a
dandy. Would love to see it tour the
winter-autumn layout I'm working on.
See layouts. Would look so nice
winding through the covered
bridge.

Originally posted by Chops124 - April 07 2015 :  5:40:00 PM



Being in Texas there is not much I can do or offer from New Jersey. Model Power sold a lot of these in 4-6-0, 0-8-0, and 2-8-0 types. They are still being sold new now but at a much higher price. You should be able to find them at train shows as so very many were made. These are tender drive locomotives of a much more reliable type than Tyco made.
Maybe you can find them at auction and get a lucky lower bid accepted. Mine all run good.
Well good luck .

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Wait a sec....is this deal tender drive? Yes, I did
have one some years ago, lettered it up for
N de M. Had to weigh down the pilot, which
had propensity to flip off the rails. I wired
up a string of permanently attached coaches
to add power to the motor, as the
contacts weren't so hot on the locomotive
alone, then it worked pretty good. I recall
the tender trucks were fixed, did not
swivel.

Ran the heck out of it, ended up posing it
as a static model on a trolley layout on
an industrial siding.

An enjoyable piece, but did require some
tinkering. Yeah, I remember her now,
we had a good fling in the day.
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Finally found one I have been looking to get for a while, my Great Northern 0-8-0 and she is SWEET!!




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You know why they made an 0-8-0, right? Because the average one D ten T couldn't keep the pilot truck on the rails!
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Wow, an explosion of 0-8-0's I'd never even
dreamed about. I really like the Clementine
and the Goat Mobile, up there. Can't help
how cool is would be to see that Goat
Meister pulling a string of those Goat Unloading Cars
featured under COTW flinging out mountain
goats one after the other.

Thinking I've been drinking too much coffee.
Back to work.
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There are so many version of the TYCO. Clementine, Chattanooga, Royal Blue (or whatever), 0-8-0, 2-8-0, some with all sorts of add on stuff like handrails that go low on the smokebox, some stop short, some none at all, some with valve gear, some without, some with metal tender frame, some plastic.
Nice Mehano with no tender dive unit, tho.
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Dave,
The boilers are the same or a very close copy. Mehano could have built some of the Tycos or the injection molding dies were sold to Mehano. ????? At some point Mehano built a Tyco 0-8-0 by droping their front and rear wheels off of their 2-8-2 and made a weird 0-8-0. I would prefer a Mehano drive over Tyco's tender drive.
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Originally posted by JRG1951 - April 08 2015 :  6:52:18 PM

Aka, Mehano finally did the thing right.

-Steve

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Here is my offering for this week, a 2 truck Rivarossi Heisler. I purchased it as 'Not Running, Needs Rebuilding". Well it turns out it was just a short in one of the light wires. Fixed that and did a thorough cleaning and re-greasing. Replaced the couplers with Kadee #21s and all is well. Just need a headlight and a rear running board and some detail junk.

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Here is my offering for this week, a 2 truck Rivarossi Heisler. I purchased it as 'Not Running, Needs Rebuilding". Well it turns out it was just a short in one of the light wires. Fixed that and did a thorough cleaning and re-greasing. Replaced the couplers with Kadee #21s and all is well. Just need a headlight and a rear running board and some detail junk.



Originally posted by Retired Alex - April 11 2015 :  12:57:03 PM


I picked one of those up 3 years ago at a show for fifteen bucks. Runs good, missing cab roof backup light housing. Dave
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