AHM JW Bowker HO scale train Question

[Cartod]

I just listed this on ebay for a penny, it has never been used.  Just wondering what I should expect it to get at auction.    Thanks  Todd

[Bob Keller]

That is neat. I actually have one from a brief fling with HO in the late 60s. It was imported by AHM, which I believe at the time was having their trains made in Yugoslavia. This would have been an inexpensive train when it was new. I wouldn't sink a lot of money into it.

Oh, the locomotive is driven from the tender. There is a round, black pipe-looking-thingy running from the tender to the loco which is the drive shaft.

[rtraincollector]

You might do better if this is acually HO as i can't see your pics here at work they block certain sites and the site your using is one of them. any way Model Railroad side forum as they deal in HO and n we basicly deal in O, S, and some G

Wish you luck thou

[sir james I]

Got one, a nice running little engine, I think I paid $12.95 for it new. As mentioned above don't lose the black drive shaft or the motor will be useless.

[dknelson]

Ogaugeoverlord

That is neat. I actually have one from a brief fling with HO in the late 60s. It was imported by AHM, which I believe at the time was having their trains made in Yugoslavia. This would have been an inexpensive train when it was new. I wouldn't sink a lot of money into it.

Oh, the locomotive is driven from the tender. There is a round, black pipe-looking-thingy running from the tender to the loco which is the drive shaft.

 

The HO scale Bowker 2-4-0 was introduced in the 1960s and the 1967 catalog on "HO Seeker" says the price was $15.95.

 http://hoseeker.net/ahminformation/ahmcatalog1967page10.jpg

 It later become considerably more expensive at which time I consider it largely a waste of money.

The Bowker is a real prototype and the AHM model, made by Pocher, was oversize -- or rather the locomotive was oversize, particularly the rather heroic smoke stack, while the tender was probably closer to scale.  The Bowker did have a tender drive as the HO Seeker exploded parts diagram shows

http://hoseeker.net/AHMRivarossiassembly/ahm240bowkerpg1.jpg

but my two Bowkers had a motor in the locomotive that filled the cab -- the tender was just along for the ride.  Over time AHM moved away from tender drives.

It was a speed demon.  I kitbashed mine into an unusual Pennsylvania RR tank engine 2-4-6 but it never looked good and the parts sit in a box. 

Dave Nelson

 

[Cartod]

Thanks for the replies!