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 Posted - September 16 2010 : 10:36:33 AM
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Here is a Tyco 0-6-0 to a small 2-8-2
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Posted - September 16 2010 : 11:15:04 AM
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hi frank, nice work,hows it run,ken
did you mean mellor,went out of business in 80s kit 432
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Posted - September 16 2010 : 6:36:17 PM
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quote:hi frank, nice work,hows it run,ken
did you mean mellor,went out of business in 80s kit 432
Originally posted by catfordken - September 16 2010 : 11:15:04 AM
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The loco ran poorly. The metal used in the frame casting was to soft. Easy to bend. The frame was discarded. I have the body somewhere still.
frank
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Posted - September 16 2010 : 6:42:53 PM
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only reason i found the mellor was by accident a guy on a forum was begging for a mellor 432 kit,but nice to know that i have not missed much although the model you made looked good,ken
http://trainboard.com/grapevine/showthread.php?t=52374
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Posted - September 16 2010 : 8:36:10 PM
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That was a nice looking small Mikado. There's some pictures of a Consolidation made from the Mellor kit here on the Atlas forum.
http://forum.atlasrr.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=61565
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