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Here's my LOTW offering:
The quintessential Tyco Rock Island RR RF-16 "Shark." I've got 2 of these and they are by far my favorite Tyco locomotives of all time.
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Posted - September 28 2019 : 10:41:10 PM
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Posted - September 29 2019 : 10:09:19 AM
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Tyco GG1 and set ready to leave Blue Mesa Station at the El Paso Model
Train Club. I retrofitted the G with double PT motors, and it performs well.
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Posted - September 29 2019 : 10:34:54 AM
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quote:Here's my LOTW offering:
The quintessential Tyco Rock Island RR RF-16 "Shark." I've got 2 of these and they are by far my favorite Tyco locomotives of all time.
Originally posted by RP model railroads - September 28 2019 : 10:36:25 PM
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Posted - September 29 2019 : 3:03:53 PM
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My LOTW is an Overland Models (made by Ajin in South Korea in 1987) Union Pacific GP unit. I found out that less than 200 of these (including both unpainted and painted samples) were made total. I got this thing at a train show recently with the box for only $50. It runs very nicely, aside from it shuddering a bit for whatever reason. It has a Japanese Mashima can motor with a brass flywheel connected to it. This thing is surprisingly well detailed and even has sprung trucks!
-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 - September 29 2019 : 7:17:30 PM
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Sprung trucks! Wow, that is something I've never hear of
on a locomotive. Gorgeous model, we see the likes of this
all day long here in UP country, they are old, but still
used in local service.
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Posted - September 29 2019 : 9:04:44 PM
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Tyco/Mantua Santa Fe
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Posted - September 29 2019 : 11:44:46 PM
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Dang, Busss! And once in a while I see something like that
doing local industry switching in that scheme, with a
BNSF paintover on the cab. Ultra cool piece.
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Posted - September 30 2019 : 11:01:35 PM
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Beautiful UP Geep. That’s a super nice find.
Here’s a Spirit of 76 that I had to do just about everything to. I figured while I was at it I should go ahead and customize it some. It was my first ever decal job so go easy please. 
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Posted - October 01 2019 : 07:08:51 AM
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| Fine looking piece, decals don't look like decals, looks 100%
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Posted - October 01 2019 : 08:48:50 AM
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real cool on the GN loco
course by the time 1976 came it was BN
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Posted - October 02 2019 : 09:17:23 AM
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Yeah I know they weren’t around then but I couldn’t help myself. Especially with the allure that the normal Great Northsrn Tyco 430 has.
Though it was somewhat sacrilege to put GN decals on Seaboard Coast Line scheme.
Thanks for the nice comments guys. I really love how friendly and nice everyone is on this forum.
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Posted - October 02 2019 : 8:00:55 PM
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* Here is my Hobbyline 0-4-0t saddletank locomotive lettered for the Union Pacific RR. This was either sold separately, ready to run, or as a part of set #2500 "The Rocky Mountain".
toptrain
" It's a Heck of a Day " !!!
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Posted - October 02 2019 : 9:23:47 PM
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Agreed, those GN decals make that Spirit of '76 C430 look so good!
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Posted - October 03 2019 : 9:17:25 PM
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My LOTW is this Mantua DCC-DC EMD GP-20. Got it off e-bay. It just arrived today
        
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Posted - October 03 2019 : 9:27:05 PM
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quote:
Nice decal work!!
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Posted - October 04 2019 : 09:45:31 AM
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Agree, those decals look like original silk screen. As to myself, love
to do fantasy pieces, like the PC DD 40X, keeps it interesting.
Love the O-4-0, love those little critters, and this looks to be
an oldie from when HO was new.
And what's new is not old, check out that amazing GP 20, what
with its own controller??? I'd love if you could find the time to
shoot a little video of it, what with the sound effects and all...
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Posted - October 04 2019 : 1:32:02 PM
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| Thanks for all the compliments on my Alco guys. Really appreciate it.
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Posted - October 04 2019 : 2:16:18 PM
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Here is a video I shot of my Mantua DCC w/Sound GP-20 in Santa Fe blue and yellow. It's not Athearn Genesis quality but it is not bad for the price.
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Posted - October 04 2019 : 3:46:35 PM
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Is the video showing for anyone? Just to make sure I'm posting the video correctly, I clicked on the Tube button and then put my Youtube video link between the "tube" and "/tube". Is there a different way to post Youtube videos?
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Posted - October 04 2019 : 6:00:34 PM
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No...it is not displaying for me. You are doing it correctly, except remove the space in front of the "tube" link...for some reason the TF automatically adds a space, and that causes the video not to display.
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Posted - October 04 2019 : 7:39:56 PM
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Chops I'm not educated enough to do a video. I'll have to get one of my grandkids to show me how.
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Posted - October 05 2019 : 11:31:47 AM
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Morland, it says "blocked."
Yeah, Yard Master, I hear that, I had to learn it myself
and nearly had a stroke in the process. It used to be
free on Google, but it seems they did away with that
and now it requires a pay-for-play host. If you get
that far, it isn't so bad, just refergimate the u-drive
to a chillion bytes and tap the granfer hop drive and
secure your nodes. All set.
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Posted - October 05 2019 : 6:07:25 PM
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quote:Morland, it says "blocked."
Yeah, Yard Master, I hear that, I had to learn it myself
and nearly had a stroke in the process. It used to be
free on Google, but it seems they did away with that
and now it requires a pay-for-play host. If you get
that far, it isn't so bad, just refergimate the u-drive
to a chillion bytes and tap the granfer hop drive and
secure your nodes. All set.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â October 05 2019Â :Â 11:31:47 AM
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DO WHAT?????
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Posted - October 05 2019 : 7:48:18 PM
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Why you old dinosaur: just flimflam the upload to reverse
elephantine speedometer, and voila, you have a video.
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Posted - October 05 2019 : 9:20:50 PM
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How does that little remote work with that Mantua GP-20? Is it DCC or DC with "advanced" features?
Either way quite interesting. Would love to get my hands on one so I can tear it apart!
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Posted - October 07 2019 : 4:55:29 PM
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quote:How does that little remote work with that Mantua GP-20? Is it DCC or DC with "advanced" features?
Either way quite interesting. Would love to get my hands on one so I can tear it apart!
Originally posted by kristofer4301Â -Â October 05 2019Â :Â 9:20:50 PM
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I not sure and there were no instruction sheet with the loco. I'll probably have to you tube to find out how it works.
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Posted - October 07 2019 : 4:57:30 PM
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quote:Why you old dinosaur: just flimflam the upload to reverse
elephantine speedometer, and voila, you have a video.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â October 05 2019Â :Â 7:48:18 PM
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Thanks Chops, that sounds simple enough.
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