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Thank you all for the interest in my future FA shell project.Just in case I'm about to destroy something of value 1 is a single head light Sante Fe A unit the other is a red white and blue American Freedom Train A unit with single head light. There is no manufactors ID on ether shell. The AFT...

:cool: I found (2) HO scale FA shells.Both are A units.I was told they were made by Lionel.Does anyone know of a power chassie that would work with these shells? I would like to make them over to NYC lighting stripe.I have not posted in awhile due to illness.Always glad to talk about NYC motive...

I wish the merger could have been avoided.My Father was a NYC employee in the car department at Dewitt Yard In East Syracuse NY. It seems that a lot of the better equipment was transfered to the PRR. The PRR management seemed to treat employee's quite differently than the NYC. The Interstate...

Ten wheeler I tried very hard not to mention the (call a spade a spade Gary) the Pennsy look of that fire box.It was tough to run those big engines on Lignite.at least they didn't put a Wooten box on the poor thing.:cool: Drag freight 2 miles long at 10 miles per hour once a week,single track...

NYC 4-8-4 Bachmann I recieved a e-mail from Bowser.They said they don't make a kit that will work with the Niagara.I guess its for the big Sante Fe 4-8-4 or the N&W J class 4-8-4 my bad luck.There is a didicated NYC model as well as historical YAHOO group,and from it I recieved a very detailed...

Ten Wheeler :cool: Dan,where can I find some Tech information on the GN O class locomotive that you posted that nice photo of.I would like to see how they compare to the NYC 2-8-2 H10.The Central had class H5 thru H10 the 10's being the most modern and by far the most powerful.The Mighty 2-8-4...

4-8-2 data sheet Hey Sean did you recieve the breakdown for the IHC 4-8-2? It was faxed 2 days ago.

IHC 4-8-2 My wife will fax the engine data sheet to Sean the train robber.Will it get to you that way??Let me know Tks.David

Wow a NYC fan in PA. Glad to hear you are up and running.We are working in the same era.I'm getting engines and equipment together looking forward to the sale of our home and relocation to a new basement.!st floor laundry should give me the whole area for trains and a gun/reloading room.I like...

IHC 4-8-2 I just got one LV with a coal tender,Ill ask my wife to fax it to you from her job tomorrow.This is the engine I would like to make over to something like a NYC L1d Mohawk with a Elesco feed water heater over the smoke box.Mine is a very good runner.:cool:

Ten Wheeler :cool: TR there is a NYC set of video's by Heron that were filmed in the mid west in the late 1950's to the late 60's.One of them has a great segment of a CM&I 2-10-2 pulling a long train that they had to double over a grade.Its a 3 tape set.Some B&O,ERIE,and (UGH),Pennsylvania.Let...

Ten Wheeler Well I must admit there is a lot to like about that GN locomotive.I love that all weather cab.Vanderbuilt Tender.Oil fired??I've heard that the quality of coal out west was poor compared to what the big eastern roads used.May have been the reason for those oversized fire boxes.Who...

Ten Wheeler Sorry guys I mixed my replys Dan my Pennsy diggs were aimed at you.WOW I just took a ride on Woodid's great website that was a treat The best of the New Year to both of you.

Ten wheeler Gee Woodie we were the Water Level Route,The Pennsylvinia had the roller coaster main line.After all if the Central took the time to classify the engines we get to name them.:cool:

:cool: In the January issure of RMC magazine there was a article kit bashing O scale plastic steam locomotives to get a model not commercially available.This was in 1978.I model NYC middle 1950's The price of brass locomotives is beyond what I can afford to pay.During the holidays I recieved as...

Ten Wheeler Dan is correct,the list he posted is part of the Whyte classification system for steam locomotives. Mr.Whyte was in the motive department of the NEW YORK Central railroad.soooooooo a 4-8-4 & 4-8-2 are really NIAGARA & MOHAWK sort of falls in with 4-6-4 Hudson does it not.The NYC...

What a blizzard we had in Syracuse Sunday morning.Risked life and limp to get there,(good old Chevy truck).The very 1st table I stopped at had a used Bachman 4-8-4 Niagara.The lady told me it had a problem with the pilot wheels falling out and had been returned to there shop.Made the deal for...

:cool: Train show in Syracuse this weekend,if I see a Bachman NYC 4-8-4 It will be coming home .I've had 2 of them in the past.Some of the things I didn't like about the engine were it's pulling power,small almost invisable headlight,and tender or pilot wheel derailment thru switches.I don't...

Sale or Trade I have a sante Fe F7,It is a older Atlas Yellow & Blue Possible ROCO drive X2F cuplers,and is a smooth runner $30.00 or trade for 50's era New York Central engine,or a few Pacemaker box cars painted red & gray:cool: :cool:

turntable operation The electrical operation of a model turntable requires,a on & off switch for each stall track.Power to the turntable rails,and the lead tracks coming to the turntable it self.From all of the information found in the how to do it books from Atlas & Kalmbach it looks like a...