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 Posted - January 04 2007 : 09:09:46 AM
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i keep coming across these models made in austria of sharknoses and f-7s has anybody got any comments about them regarding scale and running,ken
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 Posted - January 04 2007 : 09:19:28 AM
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Hi Ken:
You know what there is a guy who sells these ER RF-16 Sharks (Mine are in D&H) on Ebay all the time something with sweet in the ID. and you know what his "real" name is Brother Bonaventure! As in a barefoot Monk in a simple cloth robe. rope belt, tonsured head, Yup a Franciscan. I know because on my last trip back from New York to Toronto I stopped to pick up a ER Shark from him and met the Bishop who was also barefoot but Regal at the Order House where they live, and where Brother Bonaventure sells train stuff on ebay to help support the place! Yup it's true. They are in Waterloo, NY. just outside Rochester off the I-90 Interstate. That's an "M" class Motorway to you Ken!;-)
Wish I could buy two a week off this guy till eternity, save me time in purgatory!
-Gareth
PS: Gorgeous, Run great!
Edited by - romcat on January 04 2007 09:20:03 AM
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 Posted - January 04 2007 : 09:50:09 AM
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| hi gareth thanks for info on e-r,have found an f-7a and b unit for nyc,and a f7a for pennsylvania,which i shall be bidding on,ken
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Posted - January 05 2007 : 12:57:09 AM
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| They should be good for you, I believe they are really made by Roco.
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Posted - January 05 2007 : 06:00:03 AM
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Here's a page from the 2002-2003 E-R Models/Roco Catalog...
Believe the E-R Models HO-Scale FP-7A is either the same original 1970s Roco-Atlas tooling or a very similar clone. Think the RF-16 Shark Nose was possibly unique tooling to the E-R Models release. I wanna say a Shark Nose B-unit...would that be a Headless-Shark [:D]...was also released at some point by E-R in Ho-Scale. I know they had both A's and B's in N-Scale.
The Track Cleaning Box Car is a Roco piece, as may be some of the other odds-n-ends in the E-R Models line.
Though I don't see it here, I think E-R Models for a time imported the Fratchesi Brazilian-made HO-Scale Alco FA-1 or FA-2 as well.
E-R Models also offered those neat Monorails and an Amtrak Talgo Train set of passenger cars. Seems like I've seen Walthers in the last year dumping the Talgo cars for cheap.
The N-Scale RF-16 Sharks that E-R sold turned up in the Bachmann line for a time. E-R Models went out of business in the last few years. Bachmann even states in a catalog that the N-Scale Sharks are former E-R Models releases, but were made at the same Chinese factory that makes many Bachmann items.
Tony Cook
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http://ho-scaletrains.net
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Posted - January 05 2007 : 4:10:02 PM
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and let’s not forget Model Power’s import of the Rocco Sharks (and FA’s) in the 1970’s. They had can motors, no flywheels and lots of extra weight on a diecast frame. Smooth, slow speed pullers. They were dressed in non proto paint and marketed as being ”Dream Schemes” Used the FA’s to model LNE 700 series. Any of the imported Rocco (of Austria) units should be a winner.
The ER imports from Brazil engaged in oral perversion.
Loopy
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