When I first read the title I thought for a minute you were going to put it on your lake and run it like you did your ski boats.

Well, I can't do that, but its just a nice little thing and for only $20, is a really nice quality product.  

Have to ask, were you in the tub with the sub?

No I wasn't.  I thought it deserved to have all the tub to itself.  

And could you post the Amazon link for the sub please?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ...00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

Cool. You just have to repaint it yellow, add some USCG decals and you are all set.

Nice. I've always been very nostalgic about the Lionel submarine and aquarium cars. I took a look at the little RC one you mention and while searching for it came across this other piece of Americana, which I well remember although not which cereal it came with:

 

 

Several of the Kellogs cereals had this as a premium. Sugar Pops was one. I remember getting all 3 baking soda items. Frogmen (3 different were first), then the Submarine, and finally the rare PT Boat. All using baking soda. The PT Boat was a failure not running very good, with the bubbles coming out the back to propel it forward. All were for a box top and .25 cents, semt to BattleCreek, Michigan.

Wow!  I had this baking soda diving sub!

 

lee, how does the RC work when it is submerged?  doesn't look like it runs long per charge. 

OMG, I suddenly remember the frogmen too (but not the PT Boat, which might have been the Lionel Acela of its day by the sound of it). I don't remember them in these colors but somewhere lodged in my memory are all the other details:

 

 

Wow, I remember having both the sub, and the frogman when I was a kid.  Cool stuff it was.   I was so fantastic to get them in the mail (after so many days of waiting!).

A bit of trivia. Although the relative length is off a tad, the baking soda sub was more or less based on the dual reactor, twin screw, SSRN-586 (later SSN-586) Triton radar picket submarine. Which is why the big radar on the mast 3rd from the left.

 

 

 

Actually, that would really cool.  Yes, yellow

How soon they forget the Yellow Submarine Operating Launch car:

 

 

Very cool idea

Minding your oen business on Amazon? That's funny....spending time on Amazon always leads to buying something

It does make a nice flatcar load.

-Greg

I could see that sub in a steampunk paint scheme, kind of like from Atlantis: The Lost Empire.  (I haven't seen that movie, but I recognize the sub designs from the merchandise.)

Great movie

Speaking of Atlantis and cereal box baking soda subs, I forgot I have one of the fish-shaped subs ("Ketak" is what I discovered they're called) from a box of the movie's namesake cereal.  It may actually be acceptably sized for O gauge trains; with a some painting and weathering, it would make a great artifact being brought back from an archaeological expedition.  (I do want to include a science museum on my future layout.)

I've also got a 1:40 scale giant squid, and an equal-sized white shark that I've intended to use as a Carcharodon megalodon.

"great artifact being brought back from an archaeological expedition." great idea