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 Posted - September 27 2015 : 6:39:27 PM
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my loco this week is a tenshodo mohawk
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Posted - September 27 2015 : 8:57:32 PM
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My new (to me) Bachmann "Russian" Decapod...
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Posted - September 28 2015 : 12:01:32 AM
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My LOTW for this week is a split-gear Mehano AHM C-Liner in H0.
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Posted - September 28 2015 : 11:50:57 AM
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I'm diggin' that standard gauge equipment in the background. Is that Orange Blossom Special a Lionel car?
quote:My new (to me) Bachmann "Russian" Decapod...
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Posted - September 28 2015 : 8:20:53 PM
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My old Bowser Challenger, one week old that I have had it and at least 40 years old in time.
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Posted - September 29 2015 : 03:29:47 AM
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My Athearn "blue box" GP40-2, after I did EXTENSIVE detailing work...
Including quite a bit under the chassis, that most will never see (but I know it's there!).
Also has a Mashima can motor and TCS KAT-22 decoder, with Keep-Alive.
And, that is my Freelance Railroad.
BTW, IMHO, a Keep-Alive decoder may just be the BEST investment that you can make!
I've run it over as much as 10 INCHES of DEAD TRACK, without even slowing down...
I've even run her on my friend's Layout, with ALL brass track, without so much as a
flicker of the headlights!!!  
Carmine - CEO, Engineer, and Chief Bottle Washer
Pacific Belt RR, in HO Scale, Since 1975! 
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Posted - September 29 2015 : 8:57:27 PM
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Another new BNSF Warbonnet locomotive of sorts:
It's another Walthers Trainline Dash 8-40BW, but it has the "Santa Fe" markings on the sides, small BNSF patches under the road numbers and the orange BNSF AC unit, LED headlights (no headlight on the rear yet), even a DCC decoder already installed! A real steal if you ask me :)
Here it is already pulling TYCO rolling stock on my layout (except for the Walthers caboose, of course.)
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Posted - September 29 2015 : 10:47:37 PM
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Really nice photos, above. My contribution is an Athearn Geep ripping up the 1.5%
grade with a small string of tankers.
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Posted - October 01 2015 : 07:29:58 AM
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Actually that's Pre-war Lionel O in the background - a 257T tender (the 261 loco is off camera). The boxcar was scratch-built by somebody years ago from a 5 gallon Atlantic-brand lubricant can (the litho is intact on the inside of the car).
quote:I'm diggin' that standard gauge equipment in the background. Is that Orange Blossom Special a Lionel car?
quote:My new (to me) Bachmann "Russian" Decapod...
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Originally posted by Barry - September 28 2015 : 11:50:57 AM
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Edited by - Vanderbilt on October 01 2015 07:37:49 AM
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Posted - October 01 2015 : 12:31:14 PM
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| Well Jim, looks like whoever scratch built that car did a pretty fair job. I'd like to see more photos of that . . . even while it's not HO.
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Posted - October 01 2015 : 1:23:41 PM
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Barry,
Here y'a go:
It rides on pre-war trucks with a pre-war "automatic/box" coupler on one end and a post-war knuckle on the other - so I use it when I want to drag pre- with a post- loco and vice-versa. Note the hand lettering - it's almost a piece of folk art! Based on my examination of the interior (by looking in the doors), I'm pretty sure it started life looking like this:
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Posted - October 01 2015 : 1:31:46 PM
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folk art to me buddy,that is also a great bit of recycling
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Posted - October 01 2015 : 2:48:01 PM
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quote:
NICE LOCOMOTIVE!!! 
Actually, those are nice Standard Gauge pieces. I started collecting them, but the cost IS prohibitive!  
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Posted - October 01 2015 : 9:55:02 PM
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| That's a pretty fine piece of work Jim. Yeah, if money was no object, I'd be playin' with standard gauge.
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Posted - October 02 2015 : 7:49:51 PM
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That is pretty awesome. Somebody with a lot of time and
imagination to pull that one off.
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Posted - October 03 2015 : 08:13:49 AM
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quote:my loco this week is a tenshodo mohawk
Originally posted by catfordken - September 27 2015 : 6:39:27 PM
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* Ken these Tenshodo Mohawk,s were great looking locomotives. The Mohawk's, Hudson's, and Niagara's of the New York Central, here in the east, were a common sight. With the models in Ho being made for a long time right from the very beginning of custom made brass engines. International, Tenshodo, KTM, Samhongsa continuing to produce them till they were common on lots of layouts. Their quality is proven through many years of use. You got a great looking member of that family of locomotives.
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Posted - October 03 2015 : 08:31:57 AM
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yes they are great locos weigh in over a kilo,have the hudson/mohawk but not the niagara,at least by tenshodo,ken
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Posted - October 03 2015 : 09:26:12 AM
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Those have always been great modelsken
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Posted - October 03 2015 : 2:34:38 PM
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Whoa, catfordken, never seen that kind of headlight with 2 numberboards before.
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Posted - October 03 2015 : 2:46:51 PM
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2 numberboards ? sorry not sure what you mean matey
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Posted - October 06 2015 : 10:21:58 PM
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Yea, the 2 things on the headlight...
One for the number, and one for the NYC logo, right?
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Posted - October 07 2015 : 07:06:55 AM
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gotcha called a wing board headlamp,as in photo and link ken
http://www.bowser-trains.com/images/Misc/Cary/Cary%20Parts%20Page%202.jpg
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Posted - October 07 2015 : 7:56:05 PM
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I meant these, sorry, shoulda been more clear! 
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