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 Posted - August 28 2016 : 09:54:56 AM
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Starting off small, I found these two at the local show Saturday. I like the BN shell better, it's missing the trucks, I bought both of them cheaply to combine them into one working engine ( hopefully ).
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Posted - August 28 2016 : 2:22:12 PM
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Mantua Shark Nose. Has headlight. Runs nicely. Junk box find at a train show last year. Nice PASS Jerry.
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Posted - August 28 2016 : 5:55:07 PM
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$50 at Hobbytown USA for these...
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Posted - August 28 2016 : 7:20:00 PM
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My Locomotive(s) of the week is this cool pair of Athearn SP Olympics! The head unit is a dummy which is actually more detailed than the powered unit behind it. Apparently Athearn didn't have the licensing to use the Olympic logo and had to destroy them. If anyone knows anymore about these please let me know.
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Posted - August 28 2016 : 7:21:22 PM
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quote:Starting off small, I found these two at the local show Saturday. I like the BN shell better, it's missing the trucks, I bought both of them cheaply to combine them into one working engine ( hopefully ).
Jerry
Originally posted by AMC_Gremlin_GTÂ -Â August 28 2016Â :Â 09:54:56 AM
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Nice locos! I'm assuming Con-Cor? (They are N and not Z correct? lol)
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Posted - August 28 2016 : 11:19:40 PM
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Cox...
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Posted - August 28 2016 : 11:27:19 PM
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| Nice Robin Hood Mike! I've seen a couple of those around but haven't bit. Those were a Canadian only set right?
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Posted - August 29 2016 : 11:45:42 AM
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quote:My Locomotive(s) of the week is this cool pair of Athearn SP Olympics! The head unit is a dummy which is actually more detailed than the powered unit behind it. Apparently Athearn didn't have the licensing to use the Olympic logo and had to destroy them. If anyone knows anymore about these please let me know.
Originally posted by kristofer4301Â -Â August 28 2016Â :Â 7:20:00 PM
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There where 2 runs of these locos done prior to Athearn being told to stop producing the locos. Looks like the one that you got has te correct number boards. 1932 for the first Olympics in LA and 1984 for the other year LA hosted the Olympics.
The only other tid bit of info was that the prototype was an SD-40, not a Dash 2. I personally love these locos.
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Posted - August 29 2016 : 4:05:15 PM
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quote: quote:My Locomotive(s) of the week is this cool pair of Athearn SP Olympics! The head unit is a dummy which is actually more detailed than the powered unit behind it. Apparently Athearn didn't have the licensing to use the Olympic logo and had to destroy them. If anyone knows anymore about these please let me know.
Originally posted by kristofer4301Â -Â August 28 2016Â :Â 7:20:00 PM
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There where 2 runs of these locos done prior to Athearn being told to stop producing the locos. Looks like the one that you got has te correct number boards. 1932 for the first Olympics in LA and 1984 for the other year LA hosted the Olympics.
The only other tid bit of info was that the prototype was an SD-40, not a Dash 2. I personally love these locos.
Originally posted by raysouthernpac - August 29 2016 : 11:45:42 AM
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That was some of the info I found too. I agree I think that the Olympic paint scheme is one of the coolest I've ever seen. Shame the real one was repainted then destroyed.
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Posted - August 30 2016 : 4:19:59 PM
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Posted - August 30 2016 : 4:32:35 PM
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quote:Nice Robin Hood Mike! I've seen a couple of those around but haven't bit. Those were a Canadian only set right?
Originally posted by DanMacKÂ -Â August 28 2016Â :Â 11:27:19 PM
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Here is a link, yes it looks like CDN set...
http://ho-scaletrains.net/coxtrainsresource/id16.html
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Posted - August 30 2016 : 5:01:56 PM
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My LOTW... A recent addition... and a steal at $102
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Posted - August 30 2016 : 6:03:28 PM
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quote:My LOTW... A recent addition... and a steal at $102
A Westside Model Company Steam No 3 Heisler logger. HO Scale:
Originally posted by Mustangs_n_Trains - August 30 2016 : 5:01:56 PM
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Hey, a steam engine that I've actually ridden behind, in the form of a Roaring Camp and Big Trees RR #2 in Felton, CA. It's been in continuous use since 1899 when it was built, except two between 1961 and 1963. It's also been converted from standard gauge to narrow gauge.
That's a neat model!
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Posted - August 31 2016 : 07:57:48 AM
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quote: quote:Starting off small, I found these two at the local show Saturday. I like the BN shell better, it's missing the trucks, I bought both of them cheaply to combine them into one working engine ( hopefully ).
Jerry
Originally posted by AMC_Gremlin_GTÂ -Â August 28 2016Â :Â 09:54:56 AM
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Nice locos! I'm assuming Con-Cor? (They are N and not Z correct? lol)
Originally posted by DanMacKÂ -Â August 28 2016Â :Â 7:21:22 PM
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These are actually Kato units, early ones, 1967 and 1972. Concor used Kato to make the chassis's for them. The 1972 chassis with light is running, the 1967 chassis is missing the trucks, a fuel tank piece, and the insulating gasket is breaking apart. But the motor runs great! 
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Posted - August 31 2016 : 09:49:41 AM
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A favorite of mine is the British streamlined steam locomotives by Hornby and Triang. One of the types are pacifics of the Coronation Class. This is my Hornby, " City of Bristol ".
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Posted - August 31 2016 : 7:41:20 PM
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OO scale?
thats slightly bigger than HO Right?
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Posted - August 31 2016 : 8:05:21 PM
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quote:OO scale?
thats slightly bigger than HO Right?
Originally posted by microbusss - August 31 2016 : 7:41:20 PM
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It is bigger but runs on HO track.
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Posted - August 31 2016 : 9:32:39 PM
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quote: quote:OO scale?
thats slightly bigger than HO Right?
Originally posted by microbusss - August 31 2016 : 7:41:20 PM
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It is bigger but runs on HO track.
frank
Originally posted by toptrain - August 31 2016 : 8:05:21 PM
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yeah
Lots of times at train shows the OO scale is redonkulous on prices! 
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Posted - August 31 2016 : 10:46:19 PM
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quote:OO scale?
thats slightly bigger than HO Right?
Originally posted by microbusss - August 31 2016 : 7:41:20 PM
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HO is 3.5 mm to the foot. OO is 4 mm to the foot or 1/7 larger. I think a few nominally HO models have really been OO and it kind of shows.
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Posted - September 04 2016 : 8:22:17 PM
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If O scale is 1/45 . Half O should be twice that at 1/90. HO is 1/87. Cant help it I deal in inches and feet. Not a metric European. Just a plain old American with foots and yards.
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Posted - September 04 2016 : 9:37:22 PM
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quote:If O scale is 1/45 . Half O should be twice that at 1/90. HO is 1/87. Cant help it I deal in inches and feet. Not a metric European. Just a plain old American with foots and yards.
frank
Originally posted by toptrain - September 04 2016 : 8:22:17 PM
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O scale is 1/48, which makes half O 1/96. European O scale is 1/43.
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Posted - September 05 2016 : 05:45:16 AM
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OO scale is 1:76 sitting on slightly narrow gauge track (true OO gauge track would be around 18mm apart, which is why they also have P4 and 18mm scale over there).
The funny part is the fact OO scale is (mostly) British, they use inches, feet and miles like the US, yet OO scale 4mm to the foot! Of course, the only reason they do that is because they've done the same thing since forever - in the 1930s or whenever they went from clockwork to electric, the motors of the time were too big to fit in their typically smaller locos if they used 1:87, and coupled with the fact that they use the tender as the power unit on the larger locos, there still wasn't much room to work with (I have an HO scale British 0-6-0 loco made by Lima - there is hardly any room to even put some weights in the tender so it won't spin the wheels with only half a dozen cars behind it - the whole loco, tender and all weighs about 6oz). Of course, the real reason they Hornby (and Bachmann Branchline) still use OO today is so you still can run older models with newer ones, and the newer ones won't look dwarfed by the old scale.
It doesn't stop there though, British N scale is also different to US N scale!
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