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 Posted - September 24 2007 : 5:10:08 PM
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Hey Guys:
Get your Lokies out to play LOTW- Time!!!!!
I just aquired this puppy. Nice EB seller. Fallen in love with these some. Probably aquire a couple more. Ahhh Metal the REAL Locomotive material!!!
So you might ask, well why would you want more than one or two; after all a pair in switching well... I lived at one time near the Raritan River and Canal in New Jersey and fell in love with it. I lived in a few different places in the world in my life and it's the first time I called someplace else than Canada home. Anyway, here's a neat photo for you guys:
-G
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 Posted - September 24 2007 : 5:37:09 PM
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Hi All,
This is an Athearn SD45 dummy my Fiance gave me about a month ago. It sure does handle the sharp curves great. After my TYCO's Athearn is #1 in my book.
Thanks for looking.
Mike
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Posted - September 24 2007 : 6:17:59 PM
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Hey guys. Here's a Tyco CPR F-7 I just fixed up using the truck frames I got from Shaygetz. Once I can find a coupler pocket for the rear truck it'll be ready for service[:p]
-cheez
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Posted - September 24 2007 : 6:40:21 PM
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Metal, eh? There ain't too many more metal than a Bowser kit. This one is mid merger (1963) and still sports the Penn Line name on its tender. A more pleasant kit I could not imagine assembling and number 3 on my favorites list.
Glad those sideframes worked out for you, Cheez.[;)]
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Posted - September 24 2007 : 8:33:54 PM
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Nice Units guys, Thanks!
I like the Bowsers too but I want, forgive me, the original Penn Lines first I have a Penn Line GG1 Train set and I love it.
I like that Pacific's late pilot. Do you have one of the Bowseer T1 Duplex's? Gotta have one of them even though I'm buying a Blueline version for Christmas! ;-)
-G
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Posted - September 24 2007 : 8:43:58 PM
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quote:Do you have one of the Bowseer T1 Duplex's? Gotta have one of them even though I'm buying a Blueline version for Christmas! ;-)
-G
Originally posted by romcat - September 25 2007 : 01:33:54 AM
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Alas, my life is incomplete thus far on that quest...sigh...I do intend to own one when the opportunity comes.
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Posted - September 24 2007 : 10:04:32 PM
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This is an E6 Atlantic I built from scratch The loco and tender frames are brass and the boiler, cab and tender shell are made from sheet metal from a paint thinner can.
Ray
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Posted - September 24 2007 : 10:23:52 PM
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Ah… it appears that this week LOW is featuring metal… Here’s a Brass Santa Fe Pacific imported by Bernie Paul... For those who don’t recognize the name Mr Paul is a Philadelphia based importer best known for the AHM and now IHC brands… Some find it hard to believe that AHM offered some very nice brass models a few years back…
Loopy
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Posted - September 24 2007 : 10:41:53 PM
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Hey Ray:
Sing along now;
"anything Altoona can do, I can do better, I can build an Atlantic better than you! hhmmmmmm..." [:D] [:D] [:D] [:D] [:D] [:D] [:D] [:D] [}:)] [}:)] [}:)] [}:)]
-G
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Posted - September 26 2007 : 6:49:07 PM
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Here is something you do not see too often. Ray can relate to this.
A Prewar Mantua Reading Atlantic. Still in Kit Form.
Brass and some diecast. All the small parts are in the plastic tubes. You also got a bottle of black paint so you could paint your engine. Decals were for Reading line.
Back then you had to know how to build and solder to get a model of an engine. Instruction were in made on a Typewriter. No Pictures. You had to read carefully and solder Very Carefully all the brass parts. Back then you did not have Resistance Soldering. [:D]
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Posted - September 26 2007 : 6:50:21 PM
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Just Loverly!
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Posted - September 27 2007 : 02:11:07 AM
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WOW, I love it.
Ray
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Posted - September 27 2007 : 10:10:45 PM
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| Sweet...even without the paint, that Wooten firebox says it's all Reading.
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Posted - September 27 2007 : 10:25:07 PM
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Hey Shaygetz:
Keeping in mind I'm a neophyte Steam guy, why does the firebox width-Wooten type mean it's Reading as opposed to any other athracite road? I'm at the stage where an American Steamer with Fairley firebox probably means Pennsy, or perhaps GN?
-G
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Posted - September 27 2007 : 11:32:04 PM
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quote:Hey Shaygetz:
Keeping in mind I'm a neophyte Steam guy, why does the firebox width-Wooten type mean it's Reading as opposed to any other athracite road? I'm at the stage where an American Steamer with Fairley firebox probably means Pennsy, or perhaps GN?
-G
Originally posted by romcat - September 28 2007 : 03:25:07 AM
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Though I don't know all the technical stuff, the fireboxes were designed for the coal in that region, they needed bigger fireboxes for better combustion. The Pennsy had Belpaire fireboxes for the same reason and can be identified by the box like protrusion in front of the cab on my Bowser K4 and Ray's E6. I'm sure there's more to it than that, I only know enough to be really dangerous.
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Posted - September 28 2007 : 12:02:35 AM
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That part I knew. All about extracting energy from Athracite coal.
-G
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Posted - September 28 2007 : 12:34:42 AM
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quote:That part I knew. All about extracting energy from Athracite coal.
-G
Originally posted by romcat - September 28 2007 : 05:02:35 AM
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My interest in real trains is limited to what I need to know for my model work hence, the Basic and Mostly Credible Railroad moniker. I have very little interest in the real trains though I enjoy the occasional fan trip. I just like little machines and making them tick. That I know a little about the way the prototype works helps make the little ones come alive a little more.
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Posted - September 28 2007 : 01:12:35 AM
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I've always heard of the Reading being the most popular railroad to use the Wooten firebox. Not sure why. Maybe it was the largest user of them. ?
I did a quick search and came up with some other railroads to use them, the Lehigh Valley, Jersey Central, the Delaware and Hudson and Northern Pacific even had a few.
I have a couple of Bachmann 2-8-0s with the Wooten firebox.
I assumed that the Reading was the logical choice for the roadname for them.
Maybe I should explore some of the others as possibilities.
Ray
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Posted - September 28 2007 : 03:50:41 AM
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Theres a magazine dedicated to the "Athracite roads" Lots of online sites to. The Athracite begat the wooten style fireboxes and lead to Camelbacks or MOther Hubbards as some call them.
-G
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Posted - September 28 2007 : 8:26:31 PM
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Did Someone say T1...??? [:D]
This one is for Romcat...
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Posted - September 28 2007 : 9:33:43 PM
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BEEEE-UUUUUU-TEEEEEE-Fullllll!!!!
Bowser or Penn Line?
-G
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Posted - September 29 2007 : 08:36:28 AM
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It Be Original Penn Line.
This engine along with other Penn Line, Varney, Mantua, Tyco and Athearn Items will be at the train show at Leesport, PA Sunday Oct. 7
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Posted - September 29 2007 : 10:45:39 AM
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quote:It Be Original Penn Line.
Originally posted by VintageHO - September 29 2007 : 1:36:28 PM
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Did Penn Line make it dual motor as Bowser did?
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Posted - September 29 2007 : 11:01:54 AM
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Hey:
How much are you looking to get for that T1? Single or double motor?
-Gareth
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Posted - September 29 2007 : 8:21:49 PM
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Penn Line made them 3 Ways Single motor Single drive, Single Motor Dual drive and Dual Motor dual drive. The single motor versions can be upgraded to dual motor very easily. Bowser makes the parts necessary to upgrade.
The Engine pictured in my post is a Single motor Dual drive. I also have a very early Penn Line T1 Kit that has only one Motor with Only One set of geared drivers. I have another set divers with an extra motor to convert it to dual motor dual drive.
Bowser's #529 T1 Kit has dual motor drive.
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Posted - September 29 2007 : 9:53:16 PM
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| Excellent piece...those dualies must be monsters with those diecast bodies.
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Posted - October 02 2007 : 3:09:27 PM
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Hello,
I was looking at the posts on the Loco of the week ( I think anyway) & saw this pictures of what I think was a old Varney metal gear driven SW switcher & than a few color pictures of some SW engines of the Raritan River RR in NJ, I do custom painting & want to do a SW in a MTH in this color scheme of the Raritan River RR & have looked a various color photos but am not exactly sure of the proper color of red as i one photo the red looks very dark & another is brighter, I know that the sun & weather plays a large part on orginal colors & am wondering if any one can help here in the proper color of red ?
I am not exactly sure how to use this form as of yet,
Thank you ,..............Abe
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Posted - October 02 2007 : 3:39:05 PM
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Thanks Abe:
Appreciate the change.
-Gareth
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