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* I start this off with a Roco 0-6-0t # 80-033. Always a good running loco.
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Posted - December 17 2017 : 06:56:17 AM
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The other side we would call the engineers' side. The right side of ROCO 80-033.
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Posted - December 17 2017 : 06:59:03 AM
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* This is the same ROCO engine 80-033 front end.
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Posted - December 17 2017 : 07:21:42 AM
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* Months back I got another ROCO steamer. It is a decapod 2-10-0. I'll post it here. ROCO 58-2059.
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Posted - December 17 2017 : 07:29:08 AM
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Another loco I have had for a long time. A ROCO electric motor. It is an E-144. ROCO 144 509-7.
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Posted - December 17 2017 : 07:49:32 AM
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* My last Roco HO train I have now is another Electric motor. an E-636-045. Now to find a photo. Had to make one.
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Posted - December 17 2017 : 10:18:31 AM
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That brown juicer- Italian State Railways or something? Love that
peculiar articulation and the flame red pantagraphs. How's that
one run? I recollect seeing it from an encyclopedia of model trains
from the 1960's. Great stuffs, all.
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Posted - December 17 2017 : 10:46:27 AM
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Same loco as yours Frank but in austrian livery.
http://www.roco.cc/doc/ET/1/DE/43326_8960.pdf
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Posted - December 17 2017 : 1:21:50 PM
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Jeff, the 4-4-4 run's fine. A good locomotive so is the decapod.
Erich, Thank for the parts sheets. How old is this loco? Is it still made? I hade it pulling a passenger train for a while now its back in its box. I'll see if I can post a video or two of it running.
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Here are two videos of the decapod running.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/30431536@N03/34674688873/in/album-72157670794564421/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/30431536@N03/34642244834/in/album-72157670794564421/
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Posted - December 17 2017 : 2:26:50 PM
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Erich, Thank for the parts sheets. How old is this loco? Is it still made? I hade it pulling a passenger train for a while now its back in its box. I'll see if I can post a video or two of it running.
frank
Originally posted by toptrain - December 17 2017 : 1:21:50 PM
[/quote]
it was made from 1977 to 2004 in various liverys! but yours is a very early one I think 1977!
http://www.modellbau-wiki.de/wiki/BR_58#Spur_H0
https://www.flickr.com/photos/36081480@N08/37718787871/
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* Erich, you have done it again. Thank you very much for the information. on the ROCO decapod. The site gave my 2-10-0 as, 1977, catalog number 4112A
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Posted - December 19 2017 : 05:27:10 AM
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quote:* Erich, you have done it again. Thank you very much for the information. on the ROCO decapod. The site gave my 2-10-0 as, 1977, catalog number 4112A
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Have you realized that it has a Belpaire Firebox? unusual here...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_G_12
Also the prussian P10 2-8-2 had it
Austria tried some like this
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Posted - December 19 2017 : 3:07:14 PM
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Erich, I've never seen a steam locomotive with a handle till now. Is this loco a toy on some giant's train layout?
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Posted - December 19 2017 : 3:41:31 PM
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[quote]Erich, I've never seen a steam locomotive with a handle till now. Is this loco a toy on some giant's train layout?
frank
Originally posted by toptrain - December 19 2017 : 3:07:14 PM
[/quo
Austrian special ! Normaly this steam pipe runs inside the boiler !
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Posted - December 19 2017 : 5:12:33 PM
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quote: quote:Erich, I've never seen a steam locomotive with a handle till now. Is this loco a toy on some giant's train layout?
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Austrian special ! Normaly this steam pipe runs inside the boiler !
Originally posted by Erich - December 19 2017 : 3:41:31 PM
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yeah that IS odd 
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Posted - December 19 2017 : 5:26:28 PM
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| Was situated this way to fill cylinders with mainly dry steam!
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Posted - December 19 2017 : 7:29:09 PM
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Notice how the pipe passes through the sand dome. You'll always have nice, dry sand to spread on the rails.
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Posted - December 20 2017 : 02:20:01 AM
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[quote]Notice how the pipe passes through the sand dome. You'll always have nice, dry sand to spread on the rails.
Originally posted by scsshaggy - December 19 2017 : 7:29:09 PM
[/quot
This are two steamdomes , sand is in the box on the
Running board.
but there was one with the sandbox between the steamdomes:
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Posted - December 20 2017 : 2:36:39 PM
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I would have thought a pipe in the boiler would be hotter, and thus
the steam would be drier. Seems that an exterior pipe would
invite condensation, particularly in winter. Is there something
I am missing here? Just wondering outloud.
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Posted - December 20 2017 : 2:43:47 PM
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quote:I would have thought a pipe in the boiler would be hotter, and thus
the steam would be drier. Seems that an exterior pipe would
invite condensation, particularly in winter. Is there something
I am missing here? Just wondering outloud.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â December 20 2017Â :Â 2:36:39 PM
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more space for the steam inside the boiler (to seperate steam best as possible from water to keep it mainly dry) used on engines before they got super heated
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Posted - December 20 2017 : 3:53:03 PM
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quote:Notice how the pipe passes through the sand dome. You'll always have nice, dry sand to spread on the rails.
Originally posted by scsshaggy - December 19 2017 : 7:29:09 PM
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Thems be stem domes, nah san domes. San box on walkway. The square thing.
ank
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Posted - February 06 2018 : 07:56:56 AM
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Here is a ROCO steamer that I got at the Timonium Maryland train show 2-3-18 last Saturday. It is missing the coupler on the rear. and the coal shoot. I am having trouble getting a coupler to fit and work on the rear of this loco. The loco really runs well.
* The model with this number was made from 1981-1984, and 1984-1986. Other numbers released in the same time period, possibly with different road names, or paint schemes were 058, 380, and 389. In this same production period for 93-374, ROCO released 2 models of the same loco in French liveries, 1-4-1 501 and just 4301. This 93 class 2-8-2t was also produced until 2011, then in 2014, and the last time in 2016. all these had different numbers. There are a lot of this model class 93 trains out there for someone looking for one.
*** ROCO 2-8-2t, 93-374
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Posted - February 06 2018 : 10:51:41 AM
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http://www.roco.cc/doc/ET/1/DE/43254_8905.pdf
does it have a NEM coupler pocket Frank?
like this:
so you need one like this: 
have some if you want - Erich
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Posted - February 06 2018 : 11:21:48 AM
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** Erich, I don't have one of those coupler's that just snap in. The mikado runs real good. So another ROCO joins the railroad.
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Posted - February 11 2018 : 12:47:28 AM
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quote:* My last Roco HO train I have now is another Electric motor. an E-636-045. Now to find a photo. Had to make one.
frank
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Well, I'm glad you did. I remember drooling over this piece in the '70's. It's nice to see this European classic. In fact, your compilation of European electrics are pretty amazing.
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Posted - February 28 2018 : 06:40:26 AM
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Here is an old made by Roco, for Model Power diesel locomotive. The Shark Nose RF16A and B.
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Posted - March 21 2018 : 11:46:36 AM
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*** I am a little late with this post for Erich. Thank's to you, Erich, the ROCO Class 93 Mikado now has the proper coupler needed to operate as an HO scale model.
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Here it is backing up to pick up its passenger train.
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Posted - March 21 2018 : 12:34:05 PM
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Post a vid, please! I'd love to see this running. If you can
give that E-636-045 pulling some coaches, that would
be terrific.
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quote:Post a vid, please! I'd love to see this running. If you can
give that E-636-045 pulling some coaches, that would
be terrific.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â March 21 2018Â :Â 12:34:05 PM
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Chops I'm watching the military channel. I will do it in a while.
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Posted - March 21 2018 : 1:59:49 PM
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loco looks great Frank! I also sent you two europian "standard" couplers you can put in a US coupler pocket.
maybe for a transistion car .
dont be confused about the various euro couplers , now we have the NEM coupler pocktet (since about 25 years)
all other couplers are vintage.
https://www.buffersmodelrailways.com/image/data/couplings.pdf
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OK, Frank, but you owe me some of that E-636-045 under power.
I have a weird fascination with that particular piece. It rather
resembles the locomotive that took us from, and I am serious,
from Leningrad to Stalingrad in or about 1965. The head end. as
I recall, was just about that color and had a big Soviet star on
the front. Yeah, Dad had a different idea about family vacations.
Lucky we didn't end up on the Mosquito Coast.
Anyways, that article on tension and NEM couplers was interesting,
Erich. Electrotren uses a coupler that closely resembles the NEM,
if not exactly an NEM, and it works fabulously and is durable as
granite. Love it. By contrast, my Bachmann stuff, in the particular,
uses that tension coupler and buffer bar and it is lousy. The plastic
buffer bar and plastic hook tends to bind and derail the wagons
on any turnout and curve, when it feels like it. Hornby is a little
better. Considering applying a drop of plastic safe oil to lubricate
them and maybe the hooks won't grip so much.
I tried utilizing small chain on three Triang double bogie coaches
and am not having much luck with that. As soon as it winds
into a corner the lateral pull derails the coach behind the first.
Am going to see if I can weight it down sufficiently to hold it
on the rails.
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I'm back! Here are two videos. The first for Erich, ROCO 93-374 2-8-2T. Thanks for those couplers. They will come in handy.
ROCO 93-374 2-8-2t
https://www.flickr.com/photos/30431536@N03/40235523624/in/album-72157670794564421/
This second one is for Chops124. Roco electric E-636-045
Roco E-636-045
https://www.flickr.com/photos/30431536@N03/26071390547/in/album-72157670794564421/
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Posted - March 21 2018 : 4:28:04 PM
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Frank I did not sent you anymore couplers!!
You have this twos already! ;-) Erich
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Posted - March 21 2018 : 5:30:28 PM
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Erich I am the mixed up one here. Sorry frank
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Posted - March 21 2018 : 7:56:16 PM
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Thank you, Frank. Those Roco pieces move nicely. Especially enjoyed
that E-636-045. What a sight.
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Posted - March 23 2018 : 10:43:42 AM
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quote:What coaches are they pulling Frank? Liliput?
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Yes here they are Erich. I have 5 of the green ones that are lettered two different ways.
two of the top one and three of the bottom one.
In the Redish-brown I have two of the top one, and one of the bottom one.
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| Nice set.
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nice collection Frank!
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