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 Posted - June 28 2010 : 01:33:28 AM
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Since we already did Bicentennial units a couple weeks back, I'll just post a steamer...A Model Power/Mantua Classics 2-6-6-2 Mallet. This one came to me in pieces, having taken a 5 foot swan dive to the floor. It was offered for the price of postage. Remarkably, the only damage was to one side of the rear drivers. After 8 hours of careful tinkering and reassembly, I present it to you here, running happily about, the only part needing replacement was one crank pin...
This is what it looked like when I got it...
Edited by - shaygetz on June 29 2010 5:28:50 PM
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Posted - June 28 2010 : 03:51:46 AM
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Posted - June 28 2010 : 9:36:06 PM
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Those are nice locos. Here's one from a recent garage sale:
This one's a Bachmann, smokes like crazy but runs fairly slow.
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Posted - June 28 2010 : 9:57:03 PM
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Here's a Seaboard diesel I just picked up at the Timonium show, an old Athearn. It had a broken front truck, and a burnt motor in the rear, so I used the parts out of a BL-2 frame that was cut in half to fix this chassis. The BL-2 motor was a 5-pole, this one was a 3, so it runs better and smoother , or will. I'm not sure what body this is, anyone know?
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Posted - June 28 2010 : 10:12:43 PM
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AMC,
That is an AHM model of a Fairbanks Morse C-Liner.
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Posted - June 28 2010 : 10:48:33 PM
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quote:Here's a Seaboard diesel I just picked up at the Timonium show, an old Athearn.
Originally posted by AMC_Gremlin_GTÂ -Â June 28 2010Â :Â 9:57:03 PM
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Like choochin3 said, it's AHM. Those things are kind of fun. I own a few, and each one runs differently. Some are smooth but noisy, some are silent, and some are a disaster. Looks like you have the horns on that shell. Those are can be hard to find intact.
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Posted - June 29 2010 : 08:14:07 AM
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Wow! Muchos marvelous mallets, amigos!
Talk about bringing a slingshot to a gunfight: The Busy Beaver, my very first steam locomotive! Don't laugh, Boosters are cool. Pocket rocket boosters that is, because I'm pretty sure this little cracker could get a train into orbit and then where would the Beavermongers of ByWard Market be? Making BeaverTails out of dough, that's where and a good thing to.
Um, shaygetz? This thread is 8 days long!
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Posted - June 29 2010 : 10:36:37 AM
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quote:
Um, shaygetz? This thread is 8 days long!
Originally posted by tykowolf - June 29 2010 : 08:14:07 AM
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Eh...itza holiday... Cool booster
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Posted - June 30 2010 : 05:21:14 AM
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quote:| Eh...itza holiday... |
Lucky for some. quote:| Cool booster Originally posted by shaygetz - June 29 2010 : 10:36:37 AM
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Thanks for the boost, shaygetz!
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Posted - June 30 2010 : 06:41:22 AM
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Shay, did you say "eh"? How very Canadian of you what with Tomorrow being "Dominion day" (our 4th of July) as in "these Dominions of Canada..." the younger and PC in my country now say Canada day but it will always be DD for me.
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Posted - June 30 2010 : 11:09:58 AM
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C...eh?...N...eh?...D...eh?---that's how you spell Canada.
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