Rohr Turbos?

[eastcoast]

QUOTE: Originally posted by rrinker

Am I nuts, or did Bachmann make one in N scale back in the 70's?

--Randy

They put out a French TGV that today is a collectors item.
It is in N Scale as a friend of mine who has this set will
attest. He now has this N Scale set ( TGV ) under glass.

[rrinker]

Am I nuts, or did Bachmann make one in N scale back in the 70's?

--Randy

[Anonymous]

questions on the full train set:
1.) are these HO scale?
2.) How much american is 120,000 euros?

[fmilhaupt]

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QUOTE: Originally posted by swedtrain

QUOTE: Originally posted by JPM335

Does anybody make a model of the Amtrak Rohr Turbo trains?

Jouef did make one with Amtrak painting. I had one,but now sold.
This I found on french e-bay. Look like it`s it have a new ROCO motor. Thats good because the orginal motor was very bad.

Actually, that's a model of the original imported RTG turbo upon which basic design the Rohr turbos were based. The Rohr-built turbos had a less-rounded, angular nose.

Amtrak ran both the French-built RTGs and Rohr-built copies. The Jouef RTG is pretty much dead-on for the French RTGs Amtrak used, but differs significantly in the cab and nose area from the Rohr turbos. To the best of my knowledge, nobody has released models of the Rohr turbos in any scale.

In the early days of Amtrak's experimentation with the turbos, the French-built RTGs were used most frequently in the Midwest, on corridor runs our of Chicago, mainly to St. Louis, to Port Huron, Michigan. and (I think) to Milwaukee.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by JPM335

Does anybody make a model of the Amtrak Rohr Turbo trains?

Jouef did make one with Amtrak painting. I had one,but now sold.
This I found on french e-bay. Look like it`s it have a new ROCO motor. Thats good because the orginal motor was very bad.

http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=17033&item=5942061615&rd=1&

Found this pic in other e-bay

http://cgi.benl.ebay.be/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=484&item=5944034454&rd=1&ssPageName=WD4V&tc=photo

Swedtrain http://jmjk.se/

[Anonymous]

Does anybody make a model of the Amtrak Rohr Turbo trains?