Perhaps someone can give an assist. I have an old Rivarossi Mike in N scale and I have lost the boilerfront for it, can anyone tell me where I might get a replacement part. The engine was obtained through a consignment sale and runs great still but looks dopey eithout the boilerfront. all help or suggestions would be appreciated.
Rivarossi, now owned by Hornby, has long given up their range of N scale products, so it is doubtful, that there are still spare parts around. Give Walthers a try, though.
Sarge, welcome to the forum. Have you tried Golf Manor Hobbies? At one time, not long ago, they were the go-to people for older AHM and Rivarossi parts.
-Crandell
Golf Manor Hobbies went out of business last year. Whatever happened to their stocks of spare Rivarossi parts is unknown.
At this point in time, your only hope may be to scrounge around train shows, yard sales and flea markets to see if you can find another model to cannibalize for spare parts.
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Perhaps someone can give an assist. I have an old Rivarossi Mike in N scale and I have lost the boilerfront for it, can anyone tell me where I might get a replacement part. The engine was obtained through a consignment sale and runs great still but looks dopey eithout the boilerfront. all help or suggestions would be appreciated.
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Paul:
When my father died some 15 years ago, I inherited some of his N-scale equipment, which I’ve had packed away (I’m in HO). Among the locomotives is a Rivarossi N-scale Mikado, which is in pretty poor mechanical shape, but has its boiler front.
Is this the Rivarossi Mike that has the Vanderbuilt tender and the Great Northern style boiler front with the front-hung pumps and the headlight centered on the bottom of the boiler front? If so, I’d be very glad to send it to you. I just have to search my garage for the box that contains the locomotive. It’s doing me no good, and IMO someone should get some use out of it.
If you want to PM me, my e-mail is: hoofus42@aol.com
Tom
“hoofus”…lemme see, Tom…would that stand for…something to do with your scale and the fact that you are going to seed somewhere in America? [:D]
-Crandell
Crandell:
Believe it or not, it’s a very WEIRD story. My son at an early age had two things–a favorite cat named Heathcliffe and a speech impediment. The cat somehow became “Hoofus”. After Tommy overcame his speech impediment, the cat remained so named, LOL!
When Tommy became a computer genius and was setting up my e-mail account, he thought “Hoofus” would be kind of clever. It’s stayed that way for the past 30 years or so.
That’s the story. My e-mail remains the same in honor of Tommy–who programs computers in Vancouver, WA, and that very sweet little gray cat we had for about 20 years.
Tom [:D]
I like that much better, Tom. [:)] I was hoping it wasn’t as obvious as I had thought.
-Crandell
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Perhaps someone can give an assist. I have an old Rivarossi Mike in N scale and I have lost the boilerfront for it, can anyone tell me where I might get a replacement part. The engine was obtained through a consignment sale and runs great still but looks dopey eithout the boilerfront. all help or suggestions would be appreciated.
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I would think many N scale steam loco boiler fronts could be altered to fit, so look for junkers at swap meets. Some of the motors in those older N scale engines had a high mortality rate and often you see them being nearly given away.
This might sound crazy but a few years back I saw some plastic railroad equipment being sold at a party store intended to decorate a birthday cake and it was very close to N scale in size. That could be another source. And from time to time at yard sales I have seen the Hallmark “Lionel” Christmas ornaments being sold cheaply. Some of those were not far from N scale. That too could be the potential source for a boiler front.
Dave Nelson