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 Posted - November 04 2008 : 7:31:12 PM
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A couple three years back I picked up a whipped Shifter 0-4-0, didn't have a tender or even a motor, but what was left of the plastic cab appeared to be a factory brown paint job, with the 99 number on one side. At the time no one seemed to know much about it, if it was a factory piece or what.
Saturday I picked up a really nice B&O 0-4-0 and it has the brown cab too. So it would seem this was a factory variation. The engine is 1960s-era, with the die cast boiler shell. Nothing else is brown, just the plastic cab molding. The windows are painted white and the number 99 is in white on both sides. Normally these cabs were unpainted black plastic as far as I know.
So does anyone know what rhyme or reason there was for these, if they were some special production run or a goof-up or just what?
What's interesting is this is the second oddball B&O 0-4-0 I have - the other one has a smaller road number on the cab "235" that appears to be a factory style screen, not a decal or dry transfer.
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