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 Posted - October 26 2019 : 9:50:54 PM
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Here's my LOTW offering:
Tyco Central Pacific RR 4-8-0 Twelve Wheeler "Mastodon" #3, now proudly preserved on RETRO TYCO.
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Posted - October 26 2019 : 10:04:09 PM
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Posted - October 27 2019 : 12:02:15 AM
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Prairie Time by Mike! 
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Posted - October 27 2019 : 01:51:18 AM
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My LOTW is actually my only French locomotive. It's a French electric diesel made by a model railroad company from France named "VB". I've never heard of this company before receiving this model, and when I looked it up, I found that they are actually fairly sought after in France, most of them commanding well over $100 on Ebay. They're also not easy to find, even in France. The company is best known for the freight cars they made, which had a ton of separately fitted parts for their time. Their freight cars are much more common than their locomotives, based on what I could find. It uses a pancake-like drive similar to that of many other European manufacturers at the time, and it is very well made with nylon plastic gears and lots of metal. Probably the strangest thing about the model is the fact that for picking up power, it uses sliders much like Marklin, but for two rail. It actually runs surprisingly nicely, as long as you keep the sliders (in my case, slider, because it appears at some point someone cut off the wires going to the other slider and took it off. ) clean. The engine appears to be from the late 1950's and early 1960's, from what I've found on French websites about VB.I got this guy for only $40 at a train show not too long ago.
-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 - October 27 2019 : 1:26:24 PM
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Gorgeous French Fryer!
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Posted - October 27 2019 : 9:52:20 PM
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quote:
Gorgeous French Fryer!
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â October 27 2019Â :Â 1:26:24 PM
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Thanks. I quite like it. The engineering on this locomotive is very close to German-level, I have to say. It's quite impressive for such an old engine.
-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 - October 28 2019 : 7:16:25 PM
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Bachmann Spectrum UP Dash 8 40C
this loco is HEAVY too
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Posted - October 30 2019 : 5:08:52 PM
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I used to have the Jouef version of that SNCF loco (they are just electric, not an electric diesel!), road number was BB9201.
Unfortunately the motor was already burnt out on it before I got it so I converted it to a dummy, and the loco itself was crushed in a box about ten years later when we moved house (the shell was a complete loss), the only thing I salvaged was the metal chassis, trucks and the pantographs. It was a shame though, as it had all wheel drive and pickups on every wheel unlike most locos of that era.
Lima also made a version of the same loco circa 70s, sold as both BB9210 and Capitole BB9291 (which is still the same mold with BB9210 stamped on each end, but BB9291 painted on the sides). The Capitole locos had single-arm pantographs instead of double-arm ones. Unlike the Jouef model however, it was on the cheaper end of the scale and came with a pancake motor and therefore single truck drive and only four wheel pickups in the same style as Tyco (although with all wheels being metal; this at least makes it possible to convert to eight wheel pickup). The power truck has neoprene traction tires which become completely useless once they harden with age.
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Posted - October 30 2019 : 7:15:07 PM
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Here is my offering a blast from the past
Old HO layout in transit back in 1980 took photos proclaiming Earth Quake
Layout is gone STILL HAVE all the trains
Edited by - thesiding on October 30 2019 7:31:21 PM
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Posted - October 31 2019 : 07:16:50 AM
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Here is a pair of the British made model of a 0-6-0t side tanker in the rare paint scheme of the Pennsylvania Great Western Railway. They are Hornby Triang locomotives and are excellent in scale operation.
frank
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Posted - October 31 2019 : 7:18:58 PM
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I see I'm not the only one using decades old fiber tie flex track Toptrain. I was surprised that
some plastic track that was only a couple of years old fell to pieces when I tried to curve it
but the fiber track is still flexible as it was new.
Bill
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