What to do with a $5 Ebay body from a defunct LGB 2-4-0 and another AC drive brick just laying around....?
Wasnt going to post anything on this till I filled out the detailing a bit more but what the hey, added a spare AC tender that seams best suited for it, was trying to go for a Bell type geared locomotive, sort of got it, even had room for the pistons up front, close enough for me anyways. On the plus side is that I think I may have found a solution for all those 2-4-0s with crapped out gearboxes out there LOL
More as I finish painting it.
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Tom Trigg
So what scale would you say it is? (You got the 1:22.5 LGB body with the 1:29 Aristocraft power truck and tender and it all looks good together.)
Let’s see now, that should be something in the area of about 1:Vic.
So if I trash my Wife's snoppy train ( only runs on her birthday ) and take the tender from the Christmas set She got me, And use the power truck I didn't burnup from my NW-1 and make a copy. Will my wife disown me--------You bet she would....
Dave
The head is gray, hands don't work , back is weak, legs give out, eyes are gone, money go's and my wife still love's Me.
LOL Dave, luckily I didnt have to resort to that, the tender I had for a long time, same for the power brick, and the Peanuts shell was a $5 win off Evilbay, I used the un-used chassis for a scratchbuilt caboose that never got built as the base frame.
I had read about these 2-4-0 drives stripping the gears after only moderate use so I never picked one up but I was surprised by the regularity of these shells showing up on Ebay, I was the only bidder on this one so I won..... I think.
vsmith
OK; its been a week now (well, 5 days). Hope it is not still that powder baby blue, or are you going to let it rust in place.
Question (the real one): What's with the "bullet train" on the shelf? That looks to be an exposed jet engine hanging on the roofline of that engine? What you planning to do, set a world land speed record, oops, sorry, almost forgot you don't have any straight track.
Tom, its still Thomas Blue, havent had the time to do much in the last week - family issues including a rocket fast trip to NorCal, well Monterey, and back. Hope to paint it this weekend.
That "Bullet" is a hard to find (and getting harder everyday) early 70's Hotwheels Sizzler Hotline Train, battery powered and it ran on Hotwheels track and came with switches and banked curves, cool memory from my childhood when I had this set spread out all over the living room
Some fellow on Youtube video'd his Hotline set, this is a small layout, back in the day mine was huge!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi_z5vKvQnI
From the looks of his vid, and knowing you, I foresee an attempt for land speed record. Looks like he outran part of his load. Sure the conductor had fits when load fell off and engineer kept on going.
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