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 Posted - December 06 2008 : 1:57:32 PM
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found these 2 on iternet am going to try and make one for a laugh ken
 
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Posted - December 06 2008 : 2:36:42 PM
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quote:
Originally posted by catfordken-December 06 2008: 1:57:32 PM
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HAHAHA! 
Greatest switcher ever!  
    
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Posted - December 06 2008 : 8:38:30 PM
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That is too cool! Too bad there's no room for the prime mover.
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Posted - December 07 2008 : 07:15:32 AM
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the motor a much smaller one than for full size loco was behind driver,from what i could find out ken
am checking these out to see if they will do the job,much better than the older tenshodos,then that should leave space for cab detail etc
http://home.waterfront.net.au/~sem/bbeetle.htm
http://home.waterfront.net.au/~sem/BBdata.pdf
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Posted - December 07 2008 : 10:51:04 AM
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quote:That is too cool! Too bad there's no room for the prime mover.
Originally posted by NickelPlate759-December 06 2008: 8:38:30 PM
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Most likely it is a turntable shifter, a loco used to move other locs in and around the roundhouse. It would have been run from an extension cord drawing power from the turntable itself and thus wouldn't need a prime mover. Here's a similar one I saw on another forum recently...
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Posted - December 08 2008 : 02:53:24 AM
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Interesting... I assumed it was Photoshopped. So that's what became of NYC's old C-Liners. No opposed piston engine music anymore. 
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Posted - December 15 2008 : 01:59:47 AM
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Walthers used to make very short passenger cars like the one in the second photo.
The coach was called a Piker,and the Obervation was called the Oscar.
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Posted - December 15 2008 : 02:26:43 AM
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Here is something I made a long time ago from an old GP9. It ias now a GP1/2
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Posted - December 15 2008 : 03:04:25 AM
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It's a Beep. 
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Posted - March 14 2009 : 8:12:55 PM
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that passenger car I've seen in HO scale b4 forgot who made it 
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Posted - March 15 2009 : 3:52:44 PM
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Hate to break it to you, but those pictures were Photoshopped by a man, I believe his name is Scott, for I had seen these on another forum, and the man came straight out and admitted it after tricking a newcomer to the rail communitty. But man, were they convincing!
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Posted - March 15 2009 : 8:24:25 PM
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Huh. When you guys mentioned the Walthers kit, I thought I finally had a line on where this guy I found at the haunt some time back originated from:
But when I got to looking at it more closely before pics, I realized it's made of Brass with a wood floor, and the trucks are sprung. Possibly scratchbuilt? Was the Walthers kit similar?
I didn't get the roof with mine. If it ever had one... seeing as how whomever built it probably wanted to show off the interior:
Anyway. This guy is available for sale or trade if anyone is interested. I was going to repaint it but I don't have the heart to do so now.
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Posted - March 15 2009 : 8:55:56 PM
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Yep, that is it. It came with a wooden roof that had to be hand-rounded w/ sandpaper. The sides were brass and all that. Aside from being just plain COOL they were also used as practice for the full--scale-sized and much-more-expensive kits made by Walthers. Perhaps you could make a roof out of a chunk of balsa  ? But man, that guy sure did know how to decorate that car!!!
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