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 Posted - August 22 2006 : 02:51:12 AM
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I picked up this MiniTrains set at the show for $15 Saturday.
The locomotive has cracked axle gears but I still think it was a good deal. 
Ray
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Posted - August 22 2006 : 06:27:40 AM
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Ray,
That's really neat. Is it about Z scale or is that N? Were you at a train show, auction or at an antique mall when you found this? Is it made by an AHM conpany? Looks MIB!
Thanks
Alco Fan
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Posted - August 22 2006 : 08:26:55 AM
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Ray:
Nice boxed example, Ray! I'd say that based on the way these critters have taken off in popularity (together with the Eheim cable tram and cable dump systems) $15 was a great deal. I used to (as did many advertising suckers) use these critters in conjunction with the AHM Mine facility; somewhere around I still have a boxed switch or two. Unfortunately, the rest is--as they say--history.
Great find!
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Posted - October 20 2006 : 12:37:19 AM
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Ray,
Have you had any luck trying to replace the axle gears?
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Posted - October 20 2006 : 5:48:42 PM
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Ray,
I had the exact same plymouth switcher with the same axle problem.
Didn't feel like messing with it so I gave it to a friend for his HO layout.
He used it in his coal mine as a static display.
I do have a minitrains? steam loco 0-4-0t that was made in france.
Carl T.
President of the Cape James Terminal RR.
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Posted - October 21 2006 : 12:38:18 AM
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I did find a set of gears from an old tape deck that had the same number of teeth and pitch. I had to fabricate bushings to adapt them to the axles.
Ray
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Posted - March 12 2009 : 11:48:24 PM
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thats cute & cool at the same time!  if I found one I'd use it as a tourist line around a HO park 
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