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 Posted - June 22 2015 : 01:47:11 AM
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My co-worker was going through some of the estate items of our boss's father,as he's putting up O gauge trains for sale. Anyway, he ran across a folder from Mantua, circa 1980's, with official factory documentation on most of the HO steam engines of that period. Pretty much all the steam engines have 4 pages apiece of diagrams, tenders, parts list, etc. I've been up now to 1:30 AM this morning scanning as many pages as I can, these are better even than the Tyco repair manual I got a few years ago, although that had more diesels in it. Some very good diagrams of the steam engine valve gear layouts and parts breakdown for most of the engines.  This manual has the exotic and esoteric Mantua stuff, like the 2-6-6-2T logging engines, among others. Many I haven't seen before. Just finished all the engines, got the passenger cars and freight rolling stock left, so I'm gonna call it quits for the night.  Gotta get up and go to work in the morning.
I should finish the last 20 pages or so tomorrow night. Then I'll return the manual. what a GEM!  Glad I got my mitts on this thing to digitize, as I haven't seen as good a quality info in many places. So much of the documentation I see online is a scan of a copy of a copy of a copy...  Talk about FUZZY! This is ALL original factory Mantua printwork. Scanning them to PDF files, will probably be 250-350 MB worth when I'm done. I"m using higher resolution ( 300 DPI ), and adjusting the brightness, as some pages are prinhted light, so darkening them up and checking each one to make sure it's readable easily. Only want to do this ONCE! 
Well, just wanted to let ya'll know I"m having fun at 1:40 AM Monday.  But time to call it quits. I'll post a few pics of stuff I scanned soon. Oh, what the hell, why not NOW? LOL
Jerry in VA
0-8-0 Alco valve gear
2-10-00 Decapod valve gear 
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Posted - June 22 2015 : 08:46:34 AM
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I went out to HO-Seeker's Literature page, to compare what is posted there to my scans. As I suspected and remembered, while the scans are clear, they're small. And if you try to blow them up in size - they are hard to read. I'm 55, and looking at a 4 inch wide diagram on a monitor and trying to read tiny little script and numbers doesn't work for me. So while it may seem redundant work, my scans will have the added benefit of being "easily" readable. Not knocking the work done by others, but I prefer a large diagram and easily read characters instead of fighting pixelation by enlarging. So my efforts won't be wasted for me, anyway. Just woke up late, I must have turned the alarm off instead of hitting snooze, so I'll be late for work today. Oh well. Not much happening anyway.
Jerry
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Posted - June 22 2015 : 10:58:08 AM
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Hi AMC_Gremlin_GT
I scanned my copy earlier this year, I know what you mean about having a larger picture to look at and get part numbers from.
The manual that I picked up had a later order form from 92 and a parts list and price guide from 92 tucked inside.
Thanks for sharing and I can't wait to see some of the other papers you have.
Mytyco
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