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 Posted - February 04 2010 : 10:49:19 PM
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Does anyone know if a Reading Crusader engine was ever made by anyone in HO scale?
I love that train and would love to have an HO engine. I do know of the Penn Line one from the 50s. Anything newer? Not the IHC one, that one isn't the streamlined Crusader.
I found a five-car set of what looks to be factory Reading Crusader aluminum streamline cars by Mantua (blue box); lettered Reading Company and numbered in order with two observation cars.
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Posted - February 05 2010 : 12:04:59 AM
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Hello Mark,
Welcome a board...
New Jersey Custom Brass imported a Crusader Set some years ago. It was a rather limited edtion and one of the sets was just sold privately for a five figure sum.
As you mentioned Penn Line produced a Crusader kit. Here's mine from 1948...
GoingInCircles, a dear friend, custom decorated these five Mantua cars to make up the consist.
Loopy
If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem.
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Posted - February 05 2010 : 06:40:34 AM
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hi 59chevy,as loopnhook says,nj sold a set very hard to get and not cheap my friends set as in photo fetches 5 numbers but in pounds in uk,also ajn did a set just as rare see photos,ken
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Posted - February 05 2010 : 07:09:20 AM
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Thanks guys!
After I posted my question, I looked in the archives and saw your train. That is beautiful!
I guess I should have asked, "Has anyone made an HO Reading Crusader that is AFFORDABLE to a regular shmoe!"
I did see the Penn Line Crusader on eBay last year and it sold for $2000. Too rich for my blood!
Guess I'll never have one.
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Posted - February 05 2010 : 07:41:27 AM
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beautiful train with a beautiful price,would have thought someone like athearn would have bought one out in the genisis range or bachmann in their spectrum range ideal for plastic moulding,ken
hate to think what this costs,o gauge i would think
http://www.angelfire.com/pa2/Catalog3/MTHReadingCrusader.html
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Posted - February 05 2010 : 09:02:17 AM
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| Hopefully, someday...SOON!
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 Posted - November 22 2020 : 12:32:34 AM
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Crusader Rocks!
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Posted - November 22 2020 : 08:06:48 AM
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yup & still hard to come by even now
I miss Loopy too
before he went he sent me a bunch of trains 
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 Posted - February 28 2021 : 12:26:43 PM
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Here is the original Crusader.
And the HO scale set.
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Posted - February 28 2021 : 1:34:13 PM
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| A work of art.
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