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Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
"No soup for you!" - Yev Kassem (from Seinfeld)
hello train nut, in 66 & 67 tyco issued two sets of this series one with a black tender and one with a red tender. now the dates of production are questionable, as i recieved mine for xmas in 65???? and still have the set in operating condition today. as rare as many say this set is, over the years i have gotten about 8 of these sets, so..... one boxed and complete. the hooterville cannonball was used in petticoat juntion, green acres and also the beverly hillbillies, as all of these sitcoms were a family. yes i am modeling the set, going from hooterville to beverly hills and have the watertower and all. very far from finished. this was made from an actual train, the sierra #3, which is back in service in railtown california, they send emails to me as to the progress of this train. it has been in several movies as well as the tv series, unforgiven, back to the future, etc. ur in olka?? well i am too, and have several of the set should u be interested. thank you and will chat on this one later.
yes they did come with interchangeable stacks, and wood/coal inserts for the tenders. there were 2 tenders available, one black and one red.
OhOh!!You said the"C Word"*(*Cute)on here!!You know most serious modelers don't allow the C word used on here!!
Just yankin'your chain!! I remember Petticoat Junction very well.I watched it nearly time it was on tv as a kid*.(I'm 52).Kinda had a jones for Billie Jo;Bobbi Jo and Betty Jo.
Getting back to modeling the Hooterville Cannonball.
If you look on EBay or some other online auction site,you might find one pretty reasonable.Back in the 60's,TYCO made models of the Petticoat Junction train and The Iron Horse*as well.*(*The Iron Horse was a western that ran on ABC from 1966-68 and starred Dale Robertson as Ben Calhoun,a gambler who won the bankrupt Scalplock&Defiance RR in a poker game.If you have an AntennaTV affiliate nearby,they sometimes show it on Sunday Mornings along with other Columbia/Sony Pitcures series as"Gidget";"The Flying Nun";"The Monkees";"Soap";"Mad About You";"Three Stooges"and"Married With Children".).
Also,next time your'e at a train show/swap meet,someone might have one for sale.
Some alternatives:Bachmann has a 4-6-0 in HO.It's a little pricey-about$150.00.
Model Power has an"Old Timer"set with an 0-4-0 with an 1880's style smokestack and a set of period cars.I know that an 0-4-0 isn't quite what your'e looking for,but if you want something relatively inexpensive,it'll do in a pinch.
Anyway,hope that helps.
I know this is off the subject,but I hate"It's a Wonderful Life"!!!
Now before you accuse me of being"An Ol'Poopyheaded Commie Who Hates God;America and Jimmy Stewart!!",let it be known that I love my country;beleive in God and always liked Jimmy Stewart!!I just wish that they had a lost ending where he goes over to Mr.Potter's house and sticks a '73 Winchester to his head and tells him"Wh-why YaYa Old Cheap SOB!!YaYa See This??This is a Winchester'73!! I'm gonna be carrying it in an upcoming movie!!Now yaya better give me back my money or else I'll use it on ya!!".
I pay homage to Petticoat Junction in subtle ways. I left the roof off of my water tank, so that I can add the girls to it. I haven't gotten around to that step, yet. As I recall, they were depicted such that you could not rule out skinny dipping, right?
The other little salutes to the show are Betty Joe's Boarding House and my own "cannonball". I know that the girls' mother (Kate?) and uncle Joe ran the Shady Rest Hotel; my idea is that Betty Joe grew up and established her own business. My daily passenger train is lovingly nicknamed the Blackwater "Cannonball." It's a string of 4 pikers and an oscar, pulled behind a Forney.
Phil, I'm not a rocket scientist; they are my students.
For once we minority S scalers trump the HO gang! New Zealand Fine Scale produces said 4-6-0 in kit form, available in Sn3 or standard guage, mine are for conversion to SP T-3 class engines, very common branch line locos for my era, also we have been known to cut down Bachman On30 passenger cars to S scale size, so one too could replicate the Cannonball in S scale.
Dave