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 Posted - February 26 2017 : 3:08:36 PM
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My LOTW is this Coca Cola bullet train loco that I picked up for $2 at auction. It's in rough shape and is missing the motor, but I still like the Santa Fe inspired livery.
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Posted - February 26 2017 : 3:13:04 PM
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Posted - February 26 2017 : 3:17:13 PM
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quote:What maker? Lima?
Originally posted by PGE33Â -Â February 26 2017Â :Â 3:13:04 PM
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I think it's made by Playart
http://mmiwakoh.de/Eigene%20Webs/lima-modellbahn/Playart%20en.htm
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Posted - February 26 2017 : 9:38:24 PM
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Tyco G with double powered vamp trucks pulling a mix of vintage Tyco and
Life Like. Wicked Mad piece, Redwoods.
Video of this G in action:
https://youtu.be/yTvgt7YdnbE
Edited by - Chops124 on February 28 2017 6:59:30 PM
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Posted - February 26 2017 : 10:01:50 PM
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Like that Playart Coke engine, I have two different ones, but not the Coke special, that one sells high on Ebay.  Also, that 3-piece set came as a powered engine, passenger car, and non-powered trailing engine, so you probably have the trailing engine.
Also like that GG1 set, nice!
My contribution is this nice little Plymouth switcher in Penn Central paint. Don't see this one too often.
Jerry in Va
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Posted - February 27 2017 : 07:13:21 AM
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** At Allentown this weekend I found this badly painted Fleischmann 4-6-0. A newer type of Fleischmann with a tender drive with traction tires, and a sprung draw bar like Liliput 4-6-0's have. There is no number of any kind on it . Maybe painter over. It appears to have been painted with a water based flat colors. The paint might be removable . I haven't tested it yet as I would like to do that after the main body parts are removed for cleaning. I have to say the only reason I bought it was the price and the terrific details. At $18. I didn't think twice. I wonder when it was made. This may be a job for Erick. I just hope it runs. The flat colors seem to make photos of it difficult.
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Posted - February 27 2017 : 09:12:16 AM
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Not sure if I shared this one already.. This is a pretty rare find. I have seen quite a few in brass, but this is my first ever in aluminum... Varney Yellowstone 2-8-8-4 Cast Aluminum Boiler Steam Locomotive - HO Scale
Sean
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Posted - February 27 2017 : 11:35:27 AM
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Major beast! Nope, don't ever recall having seen an aluminum piece
before.
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Posted - February 27 2017 : 12:10:41 PM
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quote:Major beast! Nope, don't ever recall having seen an aluminum piece
before.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â February 27 2017Â :Â 11:35:27 AM
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It is considerably lighter than the brass version. I realized it as soon as I picked it up for the first time there was something different about it. The dude used 2x Mantua Mikado chassis for it too.
Sean
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Posted - February 27 2017 : 12:41:42 PM
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Nice locomotive Frank. I'm diggin' those spoked pilot and tender wheels.
Originally posted by toptrain - February 27 2017 : 07:13:21 AM
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Posted - February 28 2017 : 07:31:28 AM
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frank ho scale as in photo above,taken off ebay usa,ken
from what i did find out it was first produced in 1982
tender motor and detail sheet
this loco body came with deflectors or not,and in many european countries liveries
catfordken
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Posted - February 28 2017 : 08:49:09 AM
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from info i have gained tohe coka cola bullet was a copy of the lima made by playart see photo,sorry its so small,ken
i believe the set dates from 1986 as that was coke colas centenary and number on both locos seem to prove that
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Posted - February 28 2017 : 12:10:08 PM
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Thanks Ken ! With this one I have I cant tell which one that Fleischmann produced should be the number of mine. I guess I'll just stick to B38 class. It does run fine just the unpowered drivers on straight track do not turn on some of my curved track. I have lubercated the axels, piston parts that slide. All places where the main and side rods connect to the drivers. The valve gear also. I checked with my track gauge the spacing of the drivers and other wheels and they are OK. I had this happen before and sometimes all that it may need to just to run around the track for awhile. ( I hope )
* Back to train stuff. I'll post here a photos of the drive, and see how it matches up to your posting.
frank
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Posted - February 28 2017 : 12:30:22 PM
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Oh, Fleischmann! I bought an old early 60's Fleischmann FA 1341S with 3 matching coaches at a train show two days ago... It, along with the Fleischmann double decker coaches, came with their boxes and they were all in excellent condition. All I had to do to get the engine running practically spotless was clean the wheels. I got the entire set for $40.... I'll try to post pictures when I get home. Oh, and those engines typically have date codes on the bottom.... and from what I can tell, the locomotive and coaches were made in 1960, based on the code.
-Steve
"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."
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Posted - February 28 2017 : 12:31:37 PM
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I still have 2 remaining problems. One is getting the remaining paint off of the body without causing more detail parts to fall off. I have already lost the bell behind the stack, and a inspection hole cover in the firebox side. Both are missing. Most likely went down the drain. Last the piping of left side bottom, the three pipes that are seen underneath the cab which should somehow in real life connect to the tender is laying on my work bench table top, and I am not done yet removing the paint. The other is what kind of a paint scheme will I do. In the pictures you sent of the N gauge B38s, some green and black schemes looked good. The tender is about all cleaned up. The boiler is still giving me problems as I have noted.
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Posted - February 28 2017 : 7:02:37 PM
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I know we're veering off into SOTW territory here, but I have been mystified as to the origin of this set, below. Is it Play Art or Lima??? I am baffled as to its manufacture. But then, it doesn't take much to baffle me:
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Posted - February 28 2017 : 10:20:44 PM
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I thought that set was an IHC?
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Posted - February 28 2017 : 11:33:22 PM
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Posted - March 01 2017 : 12:29:31 AM
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I have only the loco from the last set shown.
Mehano RS-11
A sad attempt at "winterizing".
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Posted - March 01 2017 : 07:31:26 AM
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playart is a hong kong based company whilst lima were italian,they made models for a number of american distributors,ahm and model power,ken
http://see-n-joy.whirlygigs.com/MSpage8mCoke.html#T438
http://mmiwakoh.de/Eigene%20Webs/lima-modellbahn/Playart%20en.htm
this is a playart set made for another company called charmerz
your gp9 by the box is playart/lima and imported by Markatron Inc atlanta georgia
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Posted - March 07 2017 : 03:17:18 AM
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Thank you for that! I was mystified. The tanker is like a Tyco,
the caboose with its side rods baffled, the coke car I am
clueless, Sprite looked like a Bachmann, etc. etc.
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Posted - March 08 2017 : 06:56:59 AM
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[quote]** At Allentown this weekend I found this badly painted Fleischmann 4-6-0. A newer type of Fleischmann with a tender drive with traction tires, and a sprung draw bar like Liliput 4-6-0's have. There is no number of any kind on it . Maybe painter over. It appears to have been painted with a water based flat colors. The paint might be removable . I haven't tested it yet as I would like to do that after the main body parts are removed for cleaning. I have to say the only reason I bought it was the price and the terrific details. At $18. I didn't think twice. I wonder when it was made. This may be a job for Erick. I just hope it runs. The flat colors seem to make photos of it difficult.
frank
Hard to say when it was made without any number Frank, but I think it is a early one!
I wounder if it came without smoke deflectors. there where versions of it! Maybe I can help you with parts.
http://www.modellbau-wiki.de/wiki/BR_38 sorry german only. - Erich
Parts list here;http://www.fleischmann.de/doc/ET/2/DE/416171_13322.pdf
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