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Posted by ALEX WARSHAL on Sunday, March 23, 2014 4:20 PM

I too have a Rivarossi/AHM switcher. Here's some pics.

My Layout Photos- http://s1293.photobucket.com/user/ajwarshal/library/

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, March 23, 2014 3:55 PM

Dale8: Check your PM's.

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Posted by dale8chevyss on Sunday, March 23, 2014 3:40 PM

Cool- thanks guys.  Now if I decide I want to try to use it I'd have to try to find a shell for it that would fit my layout/era.

Modeling the N&W freelanced at the height of their steam era in HO.

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, March 23, 2014 3:37 PM

Here's one of mine. With it's pancake motor this one's defitely a Lima product.

Note: Unit is 4WD but the motor is dead.

 

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Posted by georgev on Sunday, March 23, 2014 3:07 PM

I'd concur on AHM being the seller, and add Rivarossi as the manufacturer.  AHM was the distributor of Riv.  products many years ago.  I have an old Rivarossi Krauss-Maffei locomotive that has that same motor which I think was unique to Rivarossi.  Three pole, vertical shaft, flat commutator on top.  Has a tiny worm gear driving one axle in the power truck with gearing to the other axle.  Might actually have ball bearings in the motor if I remember correctly. 

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, March 23, 2014 1:25 PM

Looks like the chassis of a Plymouth MDT switcher marketed by AHM many years ago.

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What is it?
Posted by dale8chevyss on Sunday, March 23, 2014 1:14 PM

I received this yesterday from a friend of my parents (but from dad) so I, nor anyone else, knows where/what the shell is.  I get that it's some sort of diesel switcher.   No manufacturing marks anywhere on it.  It's a double axle, and it does work.  It's HO.

 

 

 

 

Thanks

Modeling the N&W freelanced at the height of their steam era in HO.

 Daniel G.

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