I’ve got the bug pretty bad…been doing some searching and found that one of my dreams has actually come true…a decapod for O gauge is being cataloged!
I’ve always wanted a decapod ever since I was a kid and watched the Gainesville Midland Railroad decapods in operation hauling pulpwood and freight from Gainesville to Athens, Georgia and back again.
Three of them are “preserved,” in varying degrees of display…surely more than two more survive outside our fair “Peach State?”
Anyway, does anyone have one of these yet? Are they out? How do they run?
A grand for one of these is pretty steep! But I have to have a Atlantic Coast Line one… or maybe two and have them repainted to Gainesville Midland livery.
Only complaint that I have is that the tender on these does not have the “box” or whatever it is that was on the top of the real locomotives…the real tenders had one more resembling the tender on the “Interstate” Mikado that MTH is cataloging…
Did I post this in the wrong forum? Or just no one excited about the decapods? Sure, they aren’t beautiful locomotives…but they were workhorses for the branch lines and some of the last steam in service in the south.
The 2-10-0’s that they either have out…or are cataloging.
I have no idea if they are out yet, just asking if they are?..
Hey…I just found the part of their site that has a “shipping schedule”- if this is like any other industry, it’s never on time…It states May '08. Ok. I can be patient.
I don’t think any other O gauge maker has made a Baldwin “Russian” decapod until now, have they?
Your reference to the Russian decapod clarifies your original post for me. Those are neat looking locos but I don’t think they are out yet. Now the PRR decapods are out. I just bought one and had it delivered to TAStudios for retrofit with TMCC, cruise, 4 chuff option etc… Can’t wait to get it. Cheers.
I am very eager for an ACL decapod but can’t commit to spending $900 or more on one. Came close, but just don’t want one THAT much. I have a horror of something happening and being unable to pay when it comes in.