Post your non-O scale stuff here!
Just picked this up today:
According to the "Brown Book of Brass", it's actually a brass-cast hybrid, made in 1974...heck, I was still in high school!
Like the Roundhouse steamers of similar vintage, it has double gearing, a fairly low speed and has a similar "growl". I think after a proper break-in period it'll run quite well.
I think it's a rather nice looking little Pacific...
Anyone else here have one?
Mark in Oregon
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I had one back in the day. As I recall it had a $64.95 price.
Rusty
It looks great, Mark!! I graduated from high school in ‘74. It was only yesterday—-Not!
It is cool Mark!...neat find, ....NOW, let’s get out the O scale stretching tool and.......but yeah, neat find!....
Pat
Pat
I did say it is a "nice looking LITTLE Pacific..." 🙂
Rusty
Of course you did; I can't think of many topics discussed here that you haven't had some experience with. 🙂 Do you recall how well yours ran? The "Brown" book says it's a "poor runner", yet this example doesn't suck...
Mark in Oregon
@harmonyards posted:It is cool Mark!...neat find, ....NOW, let’s get out the O scale stretching tool and.......but yeah, neat find!....
Pat
NO need to do that when Weaver Models did this loco as the Santa Fe Flyer complete with Semi Streamlining.
@Strummer posted:Pat
I did say it is a "nice looking LITTLE Pacific..." 🙂
Rusty
Of course you did; I can't think of many topics discussed here that you haven't had some experience with. 🙂 Do you recall how well yours ran? The "Brown" book says it's a "poor runner", yet this example doesn't suck...
Mark in Oregon
Mine ran fine, certainly no worse than its contemporaries.
Rusty
@prrhorseshoecurve posted:NO need to do that when Weaver Models did this loco as the Santa Fe Flyer complete with Semi Streamlining.
Well...not really the same engine, is it?
Mark in Oregon
It's interesting the box labels it as a 3160 Class Pacific. The 3160 Class were Mikados. Oh well, who says the past was perfect? They did release the same boiler with a Mikado drive a year or so later, though.
I located the one and only photo of my AHM/HCB Pacific. When MR reviewed the model, they likened it to a 3400 Class Pacific. I felt the model was a little too lanky for a 3400 class, so I swapped the sand dome and number board locations to represent a 3500 Class Pacific.
Rusty
Very, very nice... 
Mark in Oregon
VERY NICE vintage find! :-)
Thanks.
Now that I think about it, my Akane steam engines (Pacific and Mike) are sort of "hybrids", in that (on my examples, at least) the trucks, both on the engines and tenders, are not brass but die cast. Not that it matters... 🙂
Mark in Oregon
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