Proto Mantua?

[trainfan1221]

Well, you know what they say. Idle hands. Besides which there was a reason. the Mantua’s Tyco drive was kaput and the body shell for the FA chassis was damaged, so I had a body and made it fit. Now I have a usable loco. Comparing the Mantua shell to an Athearn F7 shell, there’s not much difference. It’s almost as if they came from molds made from the same tooling.

Tyco drives are kaput when they are new.

[HarryHotspur]

I ended up buying Stewart FT’s which were WAAAAAY better runners and light years ahead in detail.

Dave H.

How long is a light year? [:)] (No hints from the gallery, please.)

[dehusman]

9.461E+13 km or 365.25 days depending on whether you are talking time or distance.

Dave H.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Well, you know what they say. Idle hands. Besides which there was a reason. the Mantua’s Tyco drive was kaput and the body shell for the FA chassis was damaged, so I had a body and made it fit. Now I have a usable loco. Comparing the Mantua shell to an Athearn F7 shell, there’s not much difference. It’s almost as if they came from molds made from the same tooling.

Tyco drives are kaput when they are new.

Very true. But that was an error on my part. It’s not a Tyco drive but a Mantua MU-2 drive.