I found this picture in the Get Loaded topic on MRF, and I was wondering what locomotive that is. The chassis is perfect for a project I’m working on.
I’ve seen that similar loco in a thread many moons ago. We determined it was of European design of a general steam locomotive. It’s probably in my post history.
EDIT: The loco is European, but was made by Model Power. Here’s the thread
And not at all the engine I though it was. Might still look at Model Power
It looks American to me(no buffers, knuckle couplers instead of chain couplers). It’s in HO.
Just taking a guess, mind you, but it looks kind of Norwegian to me. Cute little thing.
Tom
What I need to know is the exact kind of loco it is, the class designation. That way I know what to ask for at the shop.
I ave seen this loco on ebay under model power and i think liliput? I have the chasis. I found it at a train show early this year. Thought it looked like a good logging engine. Right now it has a custom frame and sits on freight car wheels and is dusted in a rust color. This will be a rebuild project at the shops.
Type in 0-4-0 in the search in ebay and see what you get. They come up occasionally.
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The engine style looks German to me.Seems like this engine (#2350) gets listed as Playart (or sometimes Model Power) brand on eBay. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playart, some of the Playart offerings were Hong Kong made copies of Lima models.
There is at least one identical to your picture for sale on ebay - currently listed at $10 + $5 postage and handling.
Grin,
Stein
gunkhead just wondering if you ever found this loco. I saw one under playart/tyco today on ebay for 7.99
What scale is it? It certainly looks German, Austrian, or Swiss to me.
It might have been made by Lima, who I believe made 0-4-0’s for Playart and Model Power.
Unfortunately, there is no class designation, or any exact kind of loco to ask for. While the model is based on a typical German Nebenbahn or industrial lok, it’s freelance. It’s not an exact model of any real German loco. If it is a Lima or Playart model, the model will have a low-quality mechanism, in other words it’s a train set engine. I 'm assuming you want the mech to kitbash something from the Thomas stories. There are many better options available for a four-coupled loco. What are you after?
All the best,
Mark.
German - definitely based on a German design, as Stein wrote earlier. No Austrian or Swiss builder would produce something that looked like this.
Mark.
I want the chassis and motor for my model of Lady from Thomas and the Magic Railroad. I need the motor to be small so that it fits inside the body shell. A well-tank engine(which would have to have a smaller motor), like that one, would fit the bill. If there’s no class, the product name will do. Somebody told me to use a Docksider, but A. The motors seem to tend to be too large, and B. most of the model Docksiders have fake valve gear. I got one. I can’t fit a smaller motor to it because the gear on the chassis that turns the gear on the driving axle is too big to allow it.
my apologys to dig up such an old page but i have some verry good information on this locomotive.
by my reserch its likely a “Lenz-Typ i” due to overwhelming simularities between the model and the real locomotive in question.
the reason it was likely hard to find the basis was because its a narrow-gauge locomotive and most people were looking for a standard gauge locomotive.
i found an article on these locomotives the german wikipedia
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenz-Typ_i
i happen to have the ho scale model in question and mine is made by playart and are often verry cheap in price and construction but are generaly easy to run/get runing though they aren’t smooth runners.
ive considered making one into a model of “lady” but the motor sits in the area of the cab that’s ment to be open air on lady and its a massive motor for the size
so making a model of lady isn’t impossible but it whould be rather challanging.
again sorry for adding to a post from 2008 that few people will ever read
oknodz, Welcome to the MR forum. 3,872 views, lets see if the number of views grow.
I was looking for a small 0-4-0 and bought one on Ebay. It was labelled under Playart, but I’ve seen it under Model Power as well. It was not a good runner.
I ended up finding a small brass “plantation” model to meet my need. It runs OK, and it’s closer to the size I was looking for (the Playart was bigger than I thought). I changed the motor, added a scratchbuilt tended and installed DCC with sound. The Playart is in my spare parts box… Have you looked at Shapeways for a 3D print?
Simon
Small old narrow gauge locomotives make excellent flat car loads.
Somewhere I have an HOn3 2-8-0 basket case that will meet its fate on the deck of a STRATTON AND GILLETTE flat car.
-Kevin
Interesting to go back through the replies from 12 years ago. None of the posters are still active on the forum. I have always felt that it would be better to start a new thread with a link to the old one rather than continue the old one, but whatever.
Rich
Gee, the OP’s account was created on the year I was born! And when the conversation was still ongoing I was in preschool! Oh, how time flies.
The Playart brand engine shown here are easy to find on ebay, with a few modifications it would be a nice engine.