When you go to the Aristocraft web site, go to the "Forum" put in a note to Lewis Polk asking about the history of your locomotive. Lewis is owner of Aristocraft, Polk Hobbies, and Crest Electronics. The engine sounds like something that may have been produced in his father's era.
Don U. TCA 73-5735
Aristo-Craft is a current manufacturer of G-scale trains. You could check with them at http://www.aristocraft.com/ for their catalogue of current offerings to see the list price of what you have as a guide to Fair Market Value in valuation of the estate, and so on.
If you can provide more details of the steam engine such as wheel arrangement -- number of axles on the front truck, driving axles, trailing truck axles -- it would help people here pin down what prototype that model may represent.
Another option would be to also post on the Garden Railroads Forum on Trains to see if someone there is more familiar with the particular model.
If GM "killed the electric car", what am I doing standing next to an EV-1, a half a block from the WSOR tracks?
I just inherit a Aristo Craft steam locomotive #133 with the coal wagon showing Cheasapeake & Ohio on the top edge and U.S. in the middle of the coal wagon.
Can you supply any data about it? History, scale, value etc...
I tried to find on Google and train magazines about it with no mention of it.
I want to pass it on to my son as a collector item with its history attached to it
Thanks for your help
Mike
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