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Been wanting one of these babies for years and years, but these things go for mega bucks
when they turn up at auction on eBay. DaCheez spotted this one in a thrift shop in the
Toronto area for about $20. Very graciously he hunted it back down and sent it to me.
As the PT motors really stink, sorry RP, I had him keep the trucks as I would have no
use for them. The fuel tank/weight had been secured by some insane super glue. It took
hours of careful poking with the a razor knife to get it out. Then another couple of hours
sawing off the tip of a Model Power shark chassis, and then more time spent sawing out
internal plastic ribs from the shell, and finally the shell mated up reasonably well to the
chassis.
Those old Model Power chassis are most heavy and have this giant can motor on flywheels,
so it runs and it pulls without equal, now!
Thank you, DA CHEEZMEISTER!!!!  
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Posted - October 18 2020 : 01:14:31 AM
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| Nice piece Chops! I really like the Canadiana box car that I got from you a while back!
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Posted - October 18 2020 : 01:58:32 AM
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Is that where it went!! Just as well, this stuff grows like fungus if
one is not careful. Hear ye well, Mr. Tater. I still like that ultra cool
yellow BN you gave me a while ago. Scarce as hen's teeth, they be,
and one of my favorite standard fifty footers.
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Posted - October 18 2020 : 2:48:17 PM
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Nice custom Canadiana Shark, Chops. I still need one...
My LOTW offering is this N-Scale Lima Santa Fe GP30. It runs poorly, and hauls literally next to nothing on the Santa Fe Paradise, whether in tandem with other locomotives or solo, even with fresh traction tires. But, I'll probably keep it for shunting on the front of the layout where there are no grades.
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Posted - October 18 2020 : 3:13:33 PM
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Posted - October 18 2020 : 3:40:05 PM
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Nice, RP! I see one of these around doing pick up and delivery around El Paso now and again. Never have
my camera when I do see it. It does exist. Albeit with an ugly BNSF swatch plastered on the cab. Yeah, Mr. Buffet,
we know already.  
Gotta do a double dipsy. Lot of fiddling to add couplers, Kadees, which I generally hate, and getting the pantograph to stay put on the insulators, add a horn, a bell. Not sure who the manufacturer is. Somebody said it might be Roundhouse, as is the caboose? The caboose, BTW, is getting some windows.
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Bachmann Spectrum Phase 3 Amtrak FP40PH
has working strobes that are BRIGHT!
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Posted - October 18 2020 : 8:48:47 PM
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quote:Nice, RP! I see one of these around doing pick up and delivery around El Paso now and again. Never have
my camera when I do see it. It does exist. Albeit with an ugly BNSF swatch plastered on the cab. Yeah, Mr. Buffet,
we know already.
Gotta do a double dipsy. Lot of fiddling to add couplers, Kadees, which I generally hate, and getting the pantograph to stay put on the insulators, add a horn, a bell. Not sure who the manufacturer is. Somebody said it might be Roundhouse, as is the caboose? The caboose, BTW, is getting some windows.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â October 18 2020Â :Â 3:40:05 PM
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The cabs are from an athearn hustler. Not sure about the hood. But it is certaintly custom.
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Posted - October 18 2020 : 9:20:25 PM
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Beauty there, bus. Road behind one of those from Springfield, Massachusetts
to LA, with a brief interlude behind a Toaster to D.C. from Bridgeport, CT back
in '85.
You know, I checked out the cab pretty closely when I had it off, cannot find any
seams to indicate this was a kit bash, and the paint was neatly applied with no
overspray. The lettering has the look of lithography.
Anyone find this in a catalogue or something??
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Posted - October 18 2020 : 10:03:13 PM
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I have never seen a locomotive like that before, and searching Google provides no results. If it is custom, it is incredible.
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Posted - October 19 2020 : 12:03:50 AM
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| I swear it's a factory job. Try to find the decal lines, I can't.
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Posted - October 19 2020 : 07:07:44 AM
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quote:I swear it's a factory job. Try to find the decal lines, I can't.
Originally posted by Chops124-October 19 2020: 12:03:50 AM
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Hmmm, any name anywhere? On the weight or inside the shell?
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Posted - October 19 2020 : 07:21:43 AM
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That Hooker appears to have an Athearn Drive and two Hussler cabs. The center is maybe the hood from another diesel. As to a prototype maybe something exists someplace. No reference to length so because it is on Atlas snap track you could count the track ties and reference that to a distance. The roof of the hood shows no exhaust stack so it cant be diesel and must be all-electric.
Here is something similar using an Athearn switcher drive and the body uses MDC box car parts. This one is a diesel.
frank
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" It's a Heck of a Day " !!!
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Posted - October 19 2020 : 10:06:50 AM
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That's a real neat kitbash, but again, there is no evidence the shell
was ever bashed, and the paint and graphics have no evidence other
than being paint. There was no makers mark.
Even on the great example above, the seam appears hidden by the
ladders, and the lettering is just a little wobbly, even though the
decal edges are well concealed.
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Posted - October 20 2020 : 12:04:56 AM
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Love that Cox F unit! I have one, it ran like a top for many a mile, then went dead as a door knob.
Have to pull it apart and see if it is something easily repaired. 
Mike, I'm so pleased you posted that lovely old Cox. I pulled mine off the shelf to see why in the world
it just stopped working. It was running fine, then just stopped. Usually these things peter out first, not
just go blewy, unless of course, sorry RP, a Tyco PT motor, and then it gives off a dense puff of gray smoke.
So I took out the trucks, everything looked pristine, and it is a nice solid motor, much like the, favored, Tyco
MU2 plant. Wedged tightly, like a splinter, between a drive wheel and bogie frame was a track nail!!
Pulled it out, and away she went, good as new!!! 
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Posted - October 20 2020 : 03:39:55 AM
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Chops, I'm glad to see you were able to get the tank out, it was really in there good! The shark looks great sitting on its new chassis.
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