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 Posted - May 27 2018 : 7:51:46 PM
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Inspired by Tyco's wild F7 with the pink and white lettering, this old Athearn BB slowly
makes its way across the parched wastelands. Beautiful runner, these old BB were and are
terrific.
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Posted - May 27 2018 : 8:32:32 PM
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Posted - May 28 2018 : 12:30:04 AM
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My LOTW is a Mantua 0-4-0, haven't played with it yet to get it running. Needs some work.
Jerry 
" When life throws you bananas...it's easy to slip up"
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Posted - May 29 2018 : 4:41:43 PM
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| Nice, Mike, nice. I feel it.
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Posted - June 01 2018 : 03:28:23 AM
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Don't worry, B happy! Two dummy B units for the price of one, I got these for next to nothing on eBay as the seller thought they were steam loco tenders (probably thinking of the Flying Scotsman's corridor tenders).
UP F3 B is a Varney and is missing couplers, I have no idea how old but I'm assuming 1960s (the trucks have a 1945 patent year on them, but the coupler boxes have narrow pins designed for horn hooks of the Life-Like/Tyco style).
B&O Alco is an Athearn, and was missing a coupler and the metal coupler box lid with it, but I was able to modify a spare AHM lid to fit in its place.
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Posted - June 02 2018 : 08:50:58 AM
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 oh thats funny!
Obviously he never seen a DIESEL B unit in his life
B units were common as heck in the 1950s to 1970s
Even BN had B units then 
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Posted - June 02 2018 : 8:56:52 PM
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quote:My LOTW is a Mantua 0-4-0, haven't played with it yet to get it running. Needs some work.
Jerry
Originally posted by AMC_Gremlin_GTÂ -Â May 28 2018Â :Â 12:30:04 AM
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Jerry what you say is a mantua loco is a HO Train CO version of a New One made in Japan loco. The smoke stack on this vrersion in the defining detail.
frank
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Posted - June 03 2018 : 03:10:44 AM
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quote: Australia, being about 50 years behind the rest of the world, still has a few B units running around the country. The Pacific National XRBs were only made in 2005-2006. 
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