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 Posted - September 18 2017 : 1:51:06 PM
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I sent off my Tyco GG1 shell, now I need a pantograph. I could kick myself.
Checked on eBay, hard to find one less than $35 and most are from
Germany, can't imagine what the postage will be. Just need one- want to
make a box cab electrict that used only one pantograph.
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Posted - September 19 2017 : 10:52:01 AM
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One of the little Pennsy B1s perhaps?
sim-al2
Also since they cut track maintaince the trains had huge trouble making over the railroad by the end
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yeah
They did a Rock Island volountarily
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Posted - September 19 2017 : 7:23:46 PM
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Nah, a big fat GG1 type. The prototype looks like a Roundhouse
box cab with a pantograph almost as big as the roof.
Edited by - Chops124 on September 21 2017 3:07:13 PM
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Posted - September 20 2017 : 08:57:38 AM
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| The cheapest way to get one is to buy a Tyco GG and salvage the pant.
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Posted - September 20 2017 : 11:30:41 AM
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| Yeah, may have to go that route.
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Posted - September 20 2017 : 12:50:58 PM
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If you plan to use the pantograph in operation with catenary, you might consider getting an AHM or IHC or even Marklin version instead. The Tyco version does not have a bottom stabilizer that makes the pantograph stay straight up when it is contacting the wire. It sort of bends over.
If it's just for show, then the Tyco version is fine.
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Posted - September 21 2017 : 3:06:37 PM
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Yep, just for show. I picked off a Tyco GG1 for $17 off
eBay. It looks pretty decent, overall, and I feel guilty
about ruining it just for one pantograph.
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Posted - September 21 2017 : 9:12:04 PM
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| I wouldn't worry too much, they aren't exactly rare.
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Posted - September 22 2017 : 09:06:48 AM
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Chops, send me a photo and a measurement of what you are looking for. I have a 1-gal bag full of lose pantographs and trolley poles.
Sean
"If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!" - Mario Andretti!
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Posted - September 22 2017 : 12:11:01 PM
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I knew there had to be a stash out there somewhere! Just one,
measurement wise, just about the size of an AHM or Tyco
pantograph. Either closely resembles the prototype picture
I did see.
I was joking showing off a picture of my Penn Central box cab,
but then somebody on the forum came back with a picture of
a PC box cab with catenary on top, the PC logo, the works,
probably in the Sunnyside Yard. This will be one of the easier
kit bashes ever.
Well, the prototype has one three axle truck. But then, the
Tyco G has a rather interesting variation of the appropriate
wheel set, as does my HO Lionel ELC.
Conversely, a box cab shell fitted to a three axle AHM
switcher would be a closer approximation.
http://www.donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/pa5687.jpg
http://s3.amazonaws.com/rrpa_photos/2294/B1%20at%20Sunnyside%20Yd.jpg
Edited by - Chops124 on September 22 2017 12:54:13 PM
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Posted - September 22 2017 : 1:23:19 PM
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Chops, if you want to go all Tyco, use a couple of streamlined cabooses as the boxcab body and Powertorque 0-6-0 steamer without cylinders/rods as the mechanism.
Edited by - Redwoods on September 22 2017 1:24:56 PM
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Posted - September 22 2017 : 5:20:38 PM
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| Wow, that's an idea...maybe vampire truck frames as well...
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Posted - October 08 2017 : 9:09:55 PM
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I have an extra vampire powered truck from the GG1, but this is what I came up with
thus far...
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