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 Posted - November 10 2009 : 3:20:05 PM
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I went "photo-happy" today and took a bunch of pics of part of my OO collection. I figured I'd share with the group:
American "OO"
An early Aristo-Craft import 0-4-0 at the head of my small collection of Norfolk & Ohio cars (yes, the loco is suffering from serious "casting-rot" but still runs fine):
3 pics of early kit-built OO cars - I've committed the sacrilege of placing HO trucks on them (making them, in effect, "American OO/HO") - so at least I can give them some occasional running time:
Scratch-built "drover's" caboose:
The above cars are survivors of the late Carl Appel's Norfolk & Ohio OO layout - here's a photo (with the above caboose) scanned from an old Model Railroader:
My Mantua Classics 2-6-6-2 articulated logger:
British "OO"
Hornby/Tri-ang "Flying Scotsman":
Wren 2-6-4t:
Hornby "County of Bedford"
Dapol Class 56:
Hornby Class 3Ft with Wrenn freight vans and a Hornby/Tri-ang brake van:
Hornby "Princess Elizabeth"
and finally - what us fans of British outline equipment usually have to settle for on this side of the pond (Bachmann/"Thomas" "Sodor Fuel" tank wagon)":
oh - and that's a Hornby phone box sitting on the platform of my vintage Marx tin station...
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Posted - November 10 2009 : 4:28:33 PM
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*gets the Jealousy Monster on my head*  yeah I's jealous of your UK locos but  on that Camelback casting-rot Hope you don't run it too often It looks like if you hit another loco or any hard object it might crumble 
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Posted - November 10 2009 : 5:08:46 PM
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| Nice...what issue of MR was that drover's 'boose in?
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Posted - November 10 2009 : 5:35:46 PM
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| Interesting loco's, thanks for sharing! I have the same WM logger, it gives me fits sometimes but I still like it.
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Posted - November 10 2009 : 7:14:16 PM
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Awesome collection. I like that caboose. That first engine is kinda neat looking too. I know it's not a good thing, but in the pic it kinda looks like lightning bolts were painted on
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Posted - November 11 2009 : 06:38:36 AM
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Carl Appel's Norfolk & Ohio was featured in the August 1948 and November 1958 issues of Model Railroader - and the Nov 58 was re-printed in Classic Articles from Model Railroader in 1980.
Here's a couple links to the American OO blog:
http://americanoo.blogspot.com/2009/06/more-on-carl-appel.html
http://americanoo.blogspot.com/2008/06/norfolk-and-ohio.html
http://americanoo.blogspot.com/2009/10/piece-of-norfolk-ohio.html
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Posted - November 11 2009 : 10:58:35 AM
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Thanks Van, I actually have a copy of "Classic Articles From Model Railroader" and...by golly...there she was on page 64.
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Posted - November 11 2009 : 11:01:59 AM
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| lionels black 3 rail track is pretty much like trixs bakalite track of same period ken
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Posted - November 11 2009 : 3:27:54 PM
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Whoa, whoa, whoa! not THE Norfolk & Ohio of Carl Appel? Wow! That's some real history there.
Kris Carver-Seaboyer
Modelling the Grafton Terminal Railway, set in New Brunswick, Canada in the 1978-1984 time frame
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Posted - November 11 2009 : 4:26:20 PM
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Yeah - I go the cars from a guy at a Greenburg's Show in Chantilly, VA a few years ago (you know how you spot something, and for reasons unknown have to take a second look to realize just what you're seeing). The kicker was the caboose - I somehow recalled the photo from the "Classic Articles" and grabbbed it before I realized just what I had in hand (yep - pure collecting luck, for once).
Anyway - one of the interesting things about the caboose is the lighting system. Instead of track pick-ups, there's a spot for a 9 volt battery with an on/off switch on board and "grain of wheat" lights installed (unfortunatelty, the bulbs are all burned-out - I am planning to replace them though).
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 Posted - November 22 2020 : 2:33:50 PM
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Nice photos for "OO" fans to check out.
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Posted - November 22 2020 : 3:35:03 PM
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| Droooooool.
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Posted - November 22 2020 : 4:40:19 PM
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Double-wow
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Posted - November 22 2020 : 5:06:54 PM
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Here is the Hornby Decapod "The Evening Star" #92220.
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Edited by - toptrain on November 22 2020 5:13:09 PM
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Posted - November 22 2020 : 5:17:05 PM
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My next Hornby is another decapod. This one is all black.
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