what is this? http://www.modeltrainstuff.com/product_p/691-4726.htm[%-)]
Lets make it clickable.
http://www.modeltrainstuff.com/product_p/691-4726.htm
This is what it is. Stewart Hobbies HO 4726 VO1000, Frisco #224
It is a HO scale diesel engine.[:)]
Ricch
What would you like to know?
It is a fine locomotive, probably one of the best looking and running of all time. Stewart Hobbies makes a fine, fine product. A steal at that price.
David B
Its a Baldwin Diesel-Electric “switcher.”
As to what a VO-1000 is-here’s wikipedia’s definition:
The Baldwin VO-1000 was a diesel-electric switcher locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive Works between January, 1939 and December, 1946. The 236,260-242,200 lb (107,000-110,000 kg) units were powered by a normally-aspirated eight-cylinder diesel engine rated at 1,000 horsepower (746 kW), and rode on a pair of two-axle trucks in a B-B wheel arrangement. Theses were either the AAR Type-A switcher trucks, or the Batz truck originally developed by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway as a leading truck for steam locomotives. 548 examples of this model were built for American railroads, including examples for the Army and Navy.
Between June and August, 1945 Baldwin supplied 30 Co-Co road locomotives with 8-cylinder VO engines for export to the Soviet Union as their
A ruse?
how do you do that? I never have figuerd it out.
after you paste the link, press the space bar once. walla, clickable link.