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<p>[quote user="cefinkjr"]</p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">RR_Mel</div> <div class="quote-content"> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">7j43k</div> <div class="quote-content"> <p>AHA!</p> <p>There's a reason it's not an exact match to a United Shay.  'Cause it's NOT.  I enlarged the side shot and noticed a central drive shaft.  Definitely not brass.  And then there's little things like the location of the check valve and the layout of the engine-frame. </p> <p> </p> <p>Anyway, it's an MDC-Roundhouse 3-truck Shay.</p> <p>Ed </p> </div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div> <div>Ed</div> <div> </div> <div>You are correct, I was wrong.  I overlaid a picture of one of my three truck MDC Shays with the second picture of Joe’s and they are an exact match.  The cab roof line is slightly different with the earlier (late 60s) pot metal cab, it’s a match for a late 80s plastic cab.</div> <div> </div> <div>Mel</div> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> </div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div> <p> </p> <p>Really?  You're telling me that someone started with an MDC plastic and</p> <p><img style="display:inline;" src="http://i358.photobucket.com/albums/oo30/melvinperry/PFM-United%20Shay_zps4y8jfmmd.jpg" alt="Shay" /></p> <p>pot metal Shay to create this?  Great job of painting plastic to look like brass.  They even thought to add little bits of excess solder around some joints.  And the old United/PFM box it's resting on is a nice touch, too.</p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>They are talking about the Original Poster, not your picture.  Yours is clearly brass.</p>
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