Hello all, as the subject line states, I’m new here. & in a way new to model railroading although I’ve been around model railroads & trains all my life as my dad has always been a keen model railroader. I have subscribed to both real & model railway magazines in the past but not currently due to economic reasons & consider myself to be reasonably conversant in railroading terms. Thing is, I’ve just acquired all my dads’ trains as his health has deteriorated & he can no longer enjoy the hobby. He has spent the last 20 years in retirement building up his layout which takes up a lot of his double garage so has had a good innings with his much loved hobby. Unfortunately he has unavoidably let things go to the pack a little in his shed recently & I have had quite a job tidying up in there including some very dirty model trains. I’ve spent a lot of time cleaning up his 30 or so HO locos & still need to clean up the 130-140 odd items of HO rolling stock, which will take me some time as I live some 2 hours drive from my dads’ place.
I’m a stickler for details, mainly model numbers, their rego/road numbers, model manufacturer sku numbers etc & there are quite a lot of models that I’m having some trouble identifying. Many hours have been spent googling & reading the net & I have been reasonably successful so far. The following items are giving me much trouble;
2-8-0 steamer, Union Pacific, road # 319 color: black (I am fairly sure this is an MDC item).
Boxcab?, Maintenance of Way, road # 651 color: black (believe this may also be an MDC item).
Climax?, DRGW, no road #, color: yellow & black (similar chassis to above item).
Any information about these 3 items, both the models & original prototypes would be greatly appreciated. I can put together a roster of all his locomotive models, will take me a few days though.
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Welcome to the hobby, and the forums. We don’t bite much. But in general, we are crazy
Pictures would be greatly appreciated. If the Boxcab and the Climax share a chassis, then they are MDC/Roundhouse things. I’ll dig up a pic.
EDIT: Does this look familar? http://media.photobucket.com/image/Roundhouse%20Climax/richg1998/Climax%20Locomotive/ClimaxA.jpg
How about this? http://media.photobucket.com/image/MDC%20Boxcab/GS4Daylight/BCW31.jpg That model is a track cleaner, hence the canisters up front. Your likely doesn;t have them.
I LOVE that A4. And the DD35 still looks crsip (it says DD40, but it’s closer to a 35.)
Yup, my A4 has never been run since I bought it from the shop, I was going to run it on my dads’ layout but never got around to it, hahahaha. It’s a limited edition model with only 3000 pieces released & has spent most of its life sitting in that cabinet. And the DD-40 will have had very little use, it’s the twin motor version too! I believe the DD-40 was never actually developed, only designed on paper & the scale model was accurately manufactured from that plan. Instead EMD produced the DD-35 which was very similar. If my information serves me correctly.
Well here’s that HO Locomotive roster, first up my own 2 items the first of which is actually OO scale;
- Gresley A4, LNER (Wartime) #4466 (Hornby R341) ‘‘scale OO’’.
- ?? J-class, N&W #608 (Bachmann plus #11315).
Diesel locos;
- EMD F3A, UP #1401 (Lifelike P1000 #8174).
- EMD F3B, UP #1402b (Lifelike P1000 #23970).
- EMD F3A, UP #1403 (Lifelike P1000 #8175).
- EMD F3B, UP #1404b (Lifelike P1000 #23971).
- EMD F7A, UP #1467 (Athearn #3213).
- EMD F7B, UP #1480b (Athearn #3214).
- EMD F7A, SP #6054 (Athearn #3235).
- EMD F7B, SP #5926 (Athearn #3236).
- EMD E7A, UP #986 (Lifelike P2000 #21088).
- EMD E8A, Milwaukee Road #33c (Lifelike P2000 #8700).
- EMD E8A, Milwaukee Road #35a (Lifelike P2000 #8701).
- EMD E8A, Rock Island #654 (Lifelike P2000 #8715).
- EMD DD40, EMD Demonstrator colors #none (Athearn #4283).
- EMD SD40-2, UP #3571 (Athearn #4408).
- EMD SD40T-2, SP #8326 (Athearn #4501).
- EMD SD45, EMD Demonstrator colors #4353 (Athearn #4167).
- EMD SD45, UP #3600 (Athearn #4163).
- EMD GP38-2 UP #2056 (Athearn #4611).
- EMD F45, BN #6642 (Athearn #3603).
- GE U28C, UP #2802 (Athearn #3422).
- GE U33C, SP #8634 (Athearn #3503).
- GE U36C, SF #8788 (Atlas #8503).
- Alco FA-1, UP #1500a (Walthers trainline #203).
- Alco FA-1, UP #1503a (Walthers trainline #204).
- Alco FB-1, UP #1524b (Walthers trainline #262).
- FM C-liners, BN #980 (both) (AHM/IHC? #?).
- ?? Boxcab, MoW #651 (MDC/Roundhouse? #?) ‘‘got 2 of these’’.
Steam locos;
- ?? 2-6-2 Prairie, UP #1836 (Bachmann #51501).
- USRA 2-8-2 Mikado, NYC #1852 (Athearn Genesis #G9005?).
- USRA 4-8-2 Mountain, Unlettered #none (Bachmann Spectrum #81601).
- USRA 4-8-2 Mountain, SP #4305 (Bachmann&n
