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 Posted - October 03 2015 : 3:54:03 PM
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This is a Aristocraft 4-4-2 that I got in a lot. Cab was shot. I'm using Mantua 4-6-0 cab and a Varney 4-6-0 tender. I've retapped the mount post for a 6-32 screw as well.
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 Posted - October 04 2015 : 8:21:06 PM
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That looks GOOD!!! 
Dork moment: I may have been in the hobby for 40 YEARS - but I had NO idea that Aristocraft made trains in ANY other scale other than 1/29th "G scale"!!! 
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Posted - October 05 2015 : 09:32:34 AM
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Aristocraft was some old Japanese-made H0 scale company that existed in the 50's and 60's. That's pretty much all that I got.
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Posted - October 05 2015 : 10:59:16 AM
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quote:That looks GOOD!!!
Dork moment: I may have been in the hobby for 40 YEARS - but I had NO idea that Aristocraft made trains in ANY other scale other than 1/29th "G scale"!!!
Originally posted by pacbelt - October 04 2015 : 8:21:06 PM
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I have seen Aristocraft trains at shows and own a few of their switch engines. The interesting thing is that I have never seen one that is labeled as Aristocraft. My two have boxes saying New Idea and Silver Line. I would not be surprised if Aristocraft was just a manufacturer that sold to other companies that re-branded what they imported.
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Posted - October 05 2015 : 11:06:52 AM
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aristocraft is a brand name of polks which shut its doors for the last time in 2013,silvine are another importer which was based in glenside pa,made in japan by new one,ken
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Edited by - catfordken on October 05 2015 11:11:11 AM
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Posted - October 05 2015 : 1:42:18 PM
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Silvine was an import brand name of the Kramer Brothers, owners of Varney & Lifelike.
Some of the Silvine items have a Baltimore MD. address, others have the Glenside PA address.
Aristo Craft, as Ken stated, was a brand name used by the Polk Brothers of New York. The HO line was produced by various companies in Europe and Japan in the 50s and 60s.
The G scale line was made in Chinna for Aristo Craft.
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