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One for the experts
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Posted - October 24 2008 : 8:34:39 PM
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Hi Frank. It is a Lindsay Conversion drive kit. They were made for Globe F Units and the Athearn RDCs. I have a few them. Do not know if there were any others. There were made around the 1950s. Carl
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Posted - October 25 2008 : 3:31:02 PM
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Carl is well informed. As to do I know of any others. No ! Aquireing this one was a fluke. I asked a friend at a show, while going thro his stuff, what it was? He said it was mine, and gave it to me. So this wasn't something I was looking for.
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Posted - July 08 2013 : 2:04:38 PM
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Ok experts ! Who made this . It was a kit maintance building. Was not made by your common kit makers.
frank
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Posted - July 08 2013 : 4:03:14 PM
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Looks like Revell Sand and Pump house No. T9030. There is a picture here:
http://ho-scaletrains.net/revellhoscaletrainsresource/id8.html
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Posted - July 08 2013 : 5:06:46 PM
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Good find. I didn't know who made it.
frank
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Posted - July 08 2013 : 5:50:01 PM
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The tip-off for me was the labels ("Fire" and "BLD 731"). Revell seemed to be one of the very few mfg that had these mundane decals for their buildings and structures.  Thomas
quote:Good find. I didn't know who made it.
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Posted - July 08 2013 : 10:56:58 PM
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That Revell kit is one, I wouldn't mind finding for the collection of Revell kits I have! VERY interesting building and what looks to have a little going on, but not over done!
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Posted - August 19 2013 : 12:08:38 PM
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But the pier supports suggest Gilbert or Ideal
Could be a kitbash
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Posted - August 19 2013 : 12:11:11 PM
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After reveiwing Revell pic could very well be
At any rate nice model
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Posted - December 20 2015 : 9:05:25 PM
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Here are 5 Passenger cars I got today. European made By who?
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Posted - December 21 2015 : 04:01:31 AM
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| Lima seems likely, but Lima and Marklin are marked someplace on the bottom.
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Posted - December 21 2015 : 09:23:36 AM
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just asked erich and he confirms they are lilliput see photo,later ones had a darker grey roof ken
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Posted - December 22 2015 : 07:53:41 AM
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Well you and Erich have done it again. Found the unfound and named the unnamed. I was think Lima . Or something made for Play Art. Thanks for the help Kenny. CULater.
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Posted - December 22 2015 : 2:04:29 PM
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always here to help when i can,as you and many others here are,thats what makes this site what it is
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Posted - February 16 2016 : 10:38:47 AM
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This may not be fair. The manufacture was around for only a few years, and this Alco PA1 and PB1 advertised maybe for only 2 years or so. The bodies are die cast, neither is powered though at the time they came with power drives. Lindsay drives. Both have the proper trucks and they are Lindsay. The other die-cast PA1 at the bottom is a Lindsay one there to compare castings which are different. A hint is they were made before 1950.
* castings in question are the PB1 at the top, and the matching PA1 in the middle.
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Posted - February 16 2016 : 10:44:19 AM
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are they hobbytown frank
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Posted - February 16 2016 : 11:02:28 AM
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Ah Kenny you are guessing. The body on the bottom is the Lindsay used by HObbyline. the middle one and the top one are the ones I am looking to see if someone else knows who made them.
frank
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Posted - February 16 2016 : 11:07:54 AM
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frank,i said hobbytown not hobbyline,made in 1948/9,but if wrong no probs,last try j,s.cambron
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoJ5nbtTKwY
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Posted - February 17 2016 : 09:01:57 AM
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In a 1948 add in a railroad magazine A model train company " Hobbies Inc. ". released the PA A unit and promised the release of a PA B unit in a month. You see the b unit so it was released, but the company disappeared.
frank
The Alco's;
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Posted - February 17 2016 : 09:33:28 AM
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nice find frank,they look more diecast rather than aluminum though,ken
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Posted - March 15 2016 : 1:35:46 PM
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quote:That Revell kit is one, I wouldn't mind finding for the collection of Revell kits I have! VERY interesting building and what looks to have a little going on, but not over done!
Originally posted by EM-1Â -Â July 08 2013Â :Â 10:56:58 PM
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Funny, that was the first HO building I ever got as a kid.
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