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Elusive Streamlined Locomotives

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Elusive Streamlined Locomotives
Posted by MadRiver on Thursday, February 23, 2012 8:19 AM

Howdy all:

I've done some searching, and I haven't been able to find o scale  versions of the following streamlined locomotives:

CB&Q Aeolus

Frisco Lines Streamlined Pacific

NC&St.L  City of Memphis

 

Anyone know if any good post-war manufacturers made these locomotives?

Thanks!

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Posted by aftjet on Monday, April 2, 2012 7:33 PM

The Frisco Lines ran a streamline passenger train called the Firefly. Looks sort of like a Royal Blue with a white stripe lengthwise.

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Posted by palallin on Tuesday, April 3, 2012 9:34 AM

Nobody has done the Firefly in O, unfortuantely.  The Royal Blue will not work because of the headlight position.

I'd love to have one!  I'd like a 1500-class even more.

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Posted by JamesP on Tuesday, April 3, 2012 8:48 PM

Glad to see other Frisco fans on here!  My tastes in O gauge run toward clockwork Marx, but I had the same lament about a lack of Frisco rolling stock in prewar & postwar Marx.  So beware... this is really crude... but it was the only way to get my Firefly fix on the windup Marx O gauge railroad:

Yes, that is a Marx Mercury in Frisco Firefly colors.  My apologies to the rivet counters... Embarrassed

 - James

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Posted by Nationwidelines on Tuesday, April 3, 2012 9:04 PM

Here is a Prewar Flyer example that some refer to as an Aeolus; however, the Flyer catalog refers to it as a NYC type locomotive.

 

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