Oldies but Goodies. The Old Stuff.
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Well this Next addition is about a line of HO locomotives that with their weight, gearing and motor size rate with the most powerful HO locomotives ever made. Hobbytown of Boston is the manufactures name. This is one of their products. A model of the Baldwin As 616 road switcher. I have 2. PRR # 8965 and # 8971.
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To be honest, escept for the DCCC controls which allows the changing of directions, I always referred "N" scale, for lack of space, I like the older stuff better. It seemed more repairable. 
*Now to post a old Triang English locomotive. One I have had for 5 or 6 years. It is "The Princess Royal". It is painted for British Rails. It is locomotive 46200. Photo it taken at my sons house on his layout.
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* Here is a second Triang Princess Class Locomotive. The " Princess Victoria" . The old style British rails emblem is on the tender side. It is locomotive number 46205. Photo taken at same location.
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This is my third Triang Princess Class locomotive. The " Princess Elizabeth" . The third of a colorful threesome of good running locomotives. In British Rail colors, Locomotive number 46201.
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Today I'll add to Oldies a Marx New Haven small diesel switcher. I got it last Sunday at the Greenberg train show in Edison. Not bad for a HO train from 1958 to 1962. The caboose is also a Marx Ho scale train. It is a Union Pacific bay window caboose.
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**Good morning everyone ! Today I'll post info about a very old Varney F3 diesel. It was designed and first produced in 1947. Varney not only put put its name on the casting bottom but also the date 1947. It is all metal and heavy. To open and remove the body from the drive 0ne screw only needs to be removed. Once removed a roof section also will separate from the body. I have seen this HO locomotive uses in dramas, and on layouts where unpowered Fa or Fb units sat in engine houses with the roof off and a model of a diesel engine within. A nice touch for a busy locomotive maintance facility. It is 2016 and this 1947 locomotive is still running. I've had brand new Athearn and Bachmann locomotives break down new out of the box. The detail is 1940ish but there. I hope you like it.
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Here is a video of the F3 on my work bench where I serviced it.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/30431536@N03/30590806454/in/dateposted-family/
*Here is a video of the F3 on my work bench where I serviced it.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/30431536@N03/30590806454/in/dateposted-family/
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That runs very nicely for a 69 year old locomotive! Like the changeable pulley wheels in the drive train. Reminds me of a modern day variable transmission in some cars. Doc Tom
Al it seems you really had a enjoyable and remember able train modeling experience. That is what this hobby it is all about. Oh and thanks to another Englishman I have come to know, one known online as catfordken, I have a pretty good number of OO trains. They all run on my layout and are DC. I have no problem running them together with my US stuff. So don't give up.
I have only a few photos of my English trains in this computer now. I have some photos taken over at my son house in PA. back years ago when I brought some trains over to rum on his main line.
Here a threesome of Triang Princesses have just been service and are ready to go again. Princess Victoria, Princess Royal, and Princess Elizabeth.
frank
I have only a few photos of my English trains in this computer now. I have some photos taken over at my son house in PA. back years ago when I brought some trains over to rum on his main line.
Here a threesome of Triang Princesses have just been service and are ready to go again. Princess Victoria, Princess Royal, and Princess Elizabeth.
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Top train,
Looking at your photos I see some fibre tie flex track. That takes me back a number of years. One of the biggest disasters I have ever had was doing some scenery work, and ballasting the fiber tie flex track. the fibre ties absorbed the water from the 50/50 white glue and water , expanded, and never contracted, leaving me with wide gauge track, and predictable results. don't ever get that stuff wet!! That was a painful lesson, learned some 48 years ago .
Thanks for sharing, love seeing the old stuff. A ways back I traded some of my Dad's On30 stuff for a bunch of old Mantua and AHM old time equipment, that I reworked for use on my logging RR. I'll try to figure out where the photos are and post some.
Bill Nelson , Clarksville TN.
Looking at your photos I see some fibre tie flex track. That takes me back a number of years. One of the biggest disasters I have ever had was doing some scenery work, and ballasting the fiber tie flex track. the fibre ties absorbed the water from the 50/50 white glue and water , expanded, and never contracted, leaving me with wide gauge track, and predictable results. don't ever get that stuff wet!! That was a painful lesson, learned some 48 years ago .
Thanks for sharing, love seeing the old stuff. A ways back I traded some of my Dad's On30 stuff for a bunch of old Mantua and AHM old time equipment, that I reworked for use on my logging RR. I'll try to figure out where the photos are and post some.
Bill Nelson , Clarksville TN.
Bill those would be great photos to see. I love my old fiber tie track. It lasts a long time. Like the little rabbit it keeps going.
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An old AHM boxcar and an old Mantua boxcar , that has been shopped to replace the wheel sets, add KD couplers, and get my RR's colors on them. with a Mantua boxcar, that has been converted into a caboose.
The seven cars to the left were all traded for recently, and shopped to look as much as possible like the two on the right which have been in service on my RR for 45 years or more.
In the massive trade I made, there were three Mantua 1880 combines. I had just got done painting three Mantua 1880 combines in my caboose colors, and did not have a need for three more. I cut two of them in half, and spliced the bagage portion together to make this unique baggage car, and glued the passenger portions together to make this coach, so instead of three combines, I have a baggage car, a combine, and a coach, an interesting train, shown here behind #6, which started life as an NWSL Sierra # 18, but was back dated with an oil headlamp, a wood burning stack, and a wood cab. shown here on the Westernmost crossing of Crooked Creek.
** All very nice Bill. I also like modeling the 1840's Railways. I should start soon on a terminal depot of the New jersey Railroad and Transportation Company. It was the first one built on the Hudson river in New Jersey. I just need to get over to the Newark NJ Museum and its main Library. The Jersey City library had very little on their first railroad terminal. They had a map of the city in 1848 and in a lower corner was a drawing a part of the Hudson river shore line. Lucky enough a view of most of the terminal front was there. Though the detail was sparse the basic construction of the terminal front could be seen. On the same map the block on which the terminal is located a footprint of terminal was shown. From this one map 80% of the information on this Terminal is found. Now I will try for more info as I said in Newark, and after that Trenton NJ and their main congressional Library. Then maybe I can draw up a better view of this terminal. Or even better, a copy of there picture.
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Right now this my sketch of this terminal. It is only the Head house seen from the corner of Montgomery and Hudson streets.
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Right now this my sketch of this terminal. It is only the Head house seen from the corner of Montgomery and Hudson streets.
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Another HO locomotive looking a lot like the large boxy Baldwin's I last posted is the Alco RSD5 that Gilbert made. The first is#31022. probably the last one produced if numbers mean anything. It is painted in C&O colors of Royal Blue with Yellow stripes. This loco came with a unique addition. When this loco ran at a slow speed as used when switching, a bell would ring . I actually got it only a few weeks ago. 
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Here is a old time train set by TYCO. The Tyco Civil War Gray set.
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I keep getting a error message saying my photo is to large. It is 640 x 260 and 84.2 KBs. That is small enough and should go in. I dont know why your program would alow this photo.
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I keep getting a error message saying my photo is to large. It is 640 x 260 and 84.2 KBs. That is small enough and should go in. I dont know why your program would alow this photo.
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Past 9 thread posts. Are in size.
11-4 16 2 photos 533 X 249, 533 X 230.
11-13-16 707 X 401,
4-13-16 800 x 438, 862 X 492,
11-30-16 800 X 544,
12-4-16 1024 X 586,
12-18 16 856 X 544,
12-20-16 904 X 531, 533 X 126, 928 X 517 by bill Nelson
12-23-16 988 X 765
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And now 640 X 260 doesn't go in. What does this mean this thread is closed to photos?
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11-4 16 2 photos 533 X 249, 533 X 230.
11-13-16 707 X 401,
4-13-16 800 x 438, 862 X 492,
11-30-16 800 X 544,
12-4-16 1024 X 586,
12-18 16 856 X 544,
12-20-16 904 X 531, 533 X 126, 928 X 517 by bill Nelson
12-23-16 988 X 765
1-1 17 1024 X 563
And now 640 X 260 doesn't go in. What does this mean this thread is closed to photos?
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