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Posted - November 14 2021 : 4:42:00 PM
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I wants one!
Anyway one of the last Tyco loco with that CHEAP motor in it 
SEE?? I said the motor was CHEAP!  
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Posted - November 14 2021 : 7:34:47 PM
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That motor makes me want to sit in a dark closet, crying and gently cradling a powertorque motor and calmly saying "it's okay..."
Tyco went cheap at the bitter end. And I mean it was a BITTER end.
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Posted - November 14 2021 : 8:38:17 PM
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Posted - November 14 2021 : 9:47:19 PM
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quote:Anyway one of the last Tyco loco with that CHEAP motor in it
Originally posted by microbusss - November 14 2021 : 4:42:00 PM
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Long ago, I had a C-Liner, I think from AHM, that had a drive that looked about like that. It sounded like a coffee grinder and was marked as made in Yugoslavia. Any country of origin marked on that engine?
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Posted - November 14 2021 : 10:28:20 PM
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AHM C-Liner's had a drive system similar to that, but MUCH higher quality, with a stronger motor and gear setup, but yes, they were noisy. The later Rock Island diesels that Tyco included in their sets in the early '90s were made by Mehano, in Yugoslavia, another manufacturer that AHM imported in its later years and so did IHC, later.
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Posted - November 15 2021 : 10:13:13 AM
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quote:AHM C-Liner's had a drive system similar to that, but MUCH higher quality, with a stronger motor and gear setup, but yes, they were noisy. The later Rock Island diesels that Tyco included in their sets in the early '90s were made by Mehano, in Yugoslavia, another manufacturer that AHM imported in its later years and so did IHC, later.
Originally posted by RP model railroads - November 14 2021 : 10:28:20 PM
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Thanks for the info.
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Posted - November 15 2021 : 1:23:47 PM
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quote: quote:Anyway one of the last Tyco loco with that CHEAP motor in it
Originally posted by microbusss - November 14 2021 : 4:42:00 PM
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Long ago, I had a C-Liner, I think from AHM, that had a drive that looked about like that. It sounded like a coffee grinder and was marked as made in Yugoslavia. Any country of origin marked on that engine?
Originally posted by scsshaggy - November 14 2021 : 9:47:19 PM
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yep from that country that no longer exists
YUGOSLAVIA!
dissolved in 2003 
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Posted - November 15 2021 : 2:58:56 PM
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quote:yep from that country that no longer exists YUGOSLAVIA!
Originally posted by microbusss - November 15 2021 : 1:23:47 PM
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I've seen more recent stuff from Mehano that showed Slovenia as the country of origin. That's the former Yugoslav state nearest to Austria.
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Posted - November 15 2021 : 8:50:50 PM
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quote: quote:AHM C-Liner's had a drive system similar to that, but MUCH higher quality, with a stronger motor and gear setup, but yes, they were noisy. The later Rock Island diesels that Tyco included in their sets in the early '90s were made by Mehano, in Yugoslavia, another manufacturer that AHM imported in its later years and so did IHC, later.
Originally posted by RP model railroads - November 14 2021 : 10:28:20 PM
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Thanks for the info.
Originally posted by scsshaggy-November 15 2021: 10:13:13 AM
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You're welcome and no problem. I happen to be a huge fan of AHM C-Liners, as they are quite durable, although the shell has a lot of prototypical imperfections that I couldn't care less about. 
I think AHM was absorbed into IHC, along with Mehano - I don't know if Mehano branded-stuff was sold under the AHM name or only under the IHC name later on.
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Posted - November 17 2021 : 08:15:16 AM
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My LOTW... I found this at Model Train Stuff by accident and immediately snapped it up.
This is the latest aquisition for my Morristown-Erie collection. I would guess Athearn probably
made less than 200 of these. It was made by Athearn but the chassis has Rivarossi styling.
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Posted - November 17 2021 : 2:32:49 PM
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My LOTW is this Bachmann 44 Tonner. I bought it at a swap meet to use its mechanism in another model, but that project went away when I figured out how to fix the mechanism the other model already had. This locomotive was missing some pieces, of which I was able to cobble up new ones, and was painted a drab dip-job blue. It smoked and stunk when it ran, but that was fixed when I cleaned up the commutators, which had gotten oil on them. I had some paint in CNW colors that I figured would look good on this engine along with my own railroad's reporting marks. Here's the result in profile:
Here's its pretty face:
Here it is moving a Caterpillar D-8 through the yard to the team track where the customer will unload it:
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Posted - November 18 2021 : 12:31:57 AM
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Never seen that B&A graphic before, AF, nice grab. The
44 tonner looks splendid, as does its flat car.
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Posted - November 18 2021 : 9:00:13 PM
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That B&A diesel, what type of locomotive is that? GP....?
Nice 44 tonner, shaggy, and great scheme!
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Posted - November 18 2021 : 9:59:58 PM
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quote:That B&A diesel, what type of locomotive is that? GP....?
Nice 44 tonner, shaggy, and great scheme!
Originally posted by RP model railroads - November 18 2021 : 9:00:13 PM
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A CF7
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Posted - November 18 2021 : 10:20:34 PM
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https://locomotive.fandom.com/wiki/ATSF_CF7
Link to an article about this very interesting
unit, and how it came to be.
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Posted - November 19 2021 : 9:01:05 PM
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Wow - really?!?!
Because CF7's have shorter noses, generally. Unless that is unique to the ATSF rebuilds.
I would not have guessed a CF7, as I do love those locos.
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Posted - November 20 2021 : 09:10:49 AM
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The Bangor & Aroostook locomotives were GP7s, not CF7s. Santa Fe rebuilt their GP7s and GP9s with the same cab as the CF7s so it's easy to get them confused.
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Posted - November 20 2021 : 9:12:26 PM
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[quote]The Bangor & Aroostook locomotives were GP7s, not CF7s. Santa Fe rebuilt their GP7s and GP9s with the same cab as the CF7s so it's easy to get them confused.
Originally posted by jward-November 20 2021: 09:10:49 AM
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Ah, nice!
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