Found this on fleabay and I must say I’m impressed. Anyone know of someone who would’ve done this? Would it even be practical to try and run? It looks like a pair of 2026 style engines siamesed together.
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Are they hinged at the joint? I wonder if it can even negotiate turns!
I've seen this before. Dont remember where though but it was at least 5 or 6 years ago. Maybe more.
Here, check this thread out.
Thanks Drelo. That's where I saw it
I thought that looked familiar, that thread is probably where I first saw one of them.
I have a 2-4-4-4 built by Bob Gale, powered by 2 Marx motors and a Lionel e-unit. No articulation, I doubt it would run on 100' curves.
Steve
If memory serves me that looks like a Bob Gale engine. I remember seeing pictures of his work sometime in the late sixties or seventies. He took two engines and made one engine. I believe he also used Berkshire too. Paul 2
@E-UNIT-79 posted:I've seen this before. Dont remember where though but it was at least 5 or 6 years ago. Maybe more.
agreed, He was not Gale, and was doing how to vid for repair, and that was in the background. Ran straight pretty well! lol Ill give it a search, Its a video
It looks like he did nice work, but what was the purpose if you couldn't run them?
I would say DEFINITELY NOT Bob Gale. That stack in the middle, the gap between the two sets of drivers would not have come from him. His engines were well detailed and as accurate as he could build them.
@artyoung posted:I would say DEFINITELY NOT Bob Gale. That stack in the middle, the gap between the two sets of drivers would not have come from him. His engines were well detailed and as accurate as he could build them.
Yes. I wish that I had one in my "museum". Their accuracy was not up to mainline factory models, but they were impressive and appealing in a "Post War Gone Wild" manner.
I remember a guy in the O Scale News magazine about 30 years ago that did this kind of stuff. He made a Pennsy T-1 out of two postwar Lionel Berks. I believe his name was Myron Biggar but it was a long time ago so please don't hold me to it. At any rate you have a real conversation piece for sure.
Topic reminds me of one of our long-past local guys, Jerry Drake. He and his wife owned the "O Sole Mia Restaurant" in Bay City, MI. Quite a character. Huge HO layout in their home upstairs in the restaurant building downtown. His layout was the stomping grounds for "The Meatball Special", celebrated by the NMRA as a special boxcar release in O and HO. Jerry was quite the chef of gourmet Italian fare. His restaurant walls were covered with photos of the rich and famous who made a point to dine there...and/or perform there!...in the middle years of the last century.
Anyway, cutting to the topic...
Jerry's finest creation...of which he was immensely proud...was an HO articulated...a 2-4-6-8! Sadly, I never thought to photograph it. But I 'spect many of the other hobbyists which he befriended in the area probably did. Come to think of it, I believe a photo of the engine appeared in the NMRA publications back then.
I do remember, however, in attending his funeral that Terry, his loving devoted wife, placed that engine beside him in the coffin. Whether it now rests in peace with Jerry, I can't say.
Missed, but not forgotten
KD
More than person have built these including a local guy now passed on.
Pete
@Norton posted:More than person have built these including a local guy now passed on.
Pete
The ad online says it’s an estate piece, wonder if it’s your local guy
