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This little tea kettle is a lot of fun to run, by AHM.
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My Chessie 630 that runs fairly well. It's doesn't run real fast, just kind of, "half fast"...
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again nice locos guys,mine is an athearn bb southern pacific sdp40

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A Loco I got at last Sunday's train show at Allentown Pa. The show was at merchants square Mall.
Here is the Aristo Craft Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad old time 2-8-0. A locomotive offered in their 1958 catalog.
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Here is my recently acquired Mantua 2-8-4 (was a 2-8-2 on arrival but soon had a 4 wheel trailing truck added soon after arrival), of note it has a Varney Vanderbuilt Tender.



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I grew up, and spent many happy years, in New England, Jviolinman.
Your posts are refreshing an unique, with an interesting provenance.
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Thanks, I have collected HO trains since I was young, I am a little too busy to start a full layout at the moment ( I am in my mid 20s) but I plan to make a full layout when the time comes. Until then I collect motive power and rolling stock. The center of my collection is mostly 40's-80's diecast steamers. I figure that most modern new plastic models won't have the longevity of the older ones and the newer BLI, MTH, maybe some spectrum modern diecast engines might succumb to Zinc rot as I have seen with marklin HO and even MTH's O scale trains (bad QC is to blame for that). I figure that most of the stock I have now would hav already started to turn to dust if they had bad casts.
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It would interesting to see more, being a B&M fan myself.
Have you considered a micro-layout? I also model British
OO, and follow some British forums, and I am repeatedly
astonished at some of their brilliant micro layouts that
range from things that fit in a pantry to 3 x 6 masterpieces
running long wheel base equipment.
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Jviolinman, could you show a better view of that Pacific with the smoke deflectors? I'm kind of digging the look of that!
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the only other Northeast equipment I have is this usra heavy cary boilered mikado.

The mantua pacific is actually a light semi streamlined hudson. Each deflector and side skirting is one piece of brass.



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Whoa, Nelly! MEC! I tried looking up the H&P- I am taking that
is a fantasy roadname. Love that coal load in its tender.

All metal, you say, wow, I bet these things shake the
baseboards!
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The tender is from a Sakai Ho plastic/diecast/tinplate model from the 1950s, one of the few HO scale Japanese non brass maker to ever sell in the U.S. even if for just a short time.
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Wow! What an amazing vintage piece. Never heard nor seen
of it. Thanks for posting.
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