more old stuff!
this is an interesting thread. It is surprising how much of this old stuff is out there.
My name is Bill Nelson, and I live in Clarksville Tn. most of my stuff is shown in my thread
Eastern Tn logging on the DG CC & W RR 1928 over in the logging mining and industrial subdivision.
including some old stuff. I haven't set out to collect old stuff but stuff happens. the first picture is a side rod diesel . Back in the 60's a friend of my father saw my layout, and later brought me a box of stuff. He had been a very early Ho modeler. Most of the stuff was too crude to be of use or even interest. but this little locomotive became the only diesel to ever be painted in my RR's colors (reporting marks were never added to protect the guilty).
It ran , and well , until a few years ago when the motor died. The manufacturor is unknown, and I have seen two or three others, but they had varying deregres of ZAMAC Cancer. This locomotive preceeds NMRA standards, and oddly has scale wheel profiles. because of this it tended to fall in the flangways @ switch points, as the tread wasn't wide enough to span the gap. I had some dual gauge switches once that I had acidently built the standard gauge flange ways to HON3 standards. other standard gauge engines bumped through those switches, but his one didn't. I am currently searching for a good way to replace the motor, and since the frame is thin, considering narrowing it to HOn3, where it would be happier, due to Hon3's finer wheel standards.
Next is a sadly abused Varney 4-6-0, missing its motor, some crank pins main rods, and a tender truck. I have no idea how or why this entered my possesion. Behind it is an orphan tender, its origin unknown until today, but after looking at this thread, it apears to have come from an Aristo-Craft Thomas Roger's 2-6-0. I have been planning to make this into a water car to supply the logging camps for longer than I can remember.
The two of the kits I bought at swap meets with the original intent of finnishing the partly built cars, but resisted when I realized how old the kits were. The ore car doesn't fit. The O scale car is an ammazing kit. I'm studying it with the idea of scratchbuilding some similar cars, if I could ever find an O scale Rivarossi Genoa.
Bill Nelson