Obviously, theres' the 2245, & I *think* Williams made a repro version, but what other TS F-3s were made in O gauge over the years? Did MTH or K-Line make them too at any time?
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K-Line -----> HERE.
MTH Has a Railking Scale version F3A coming out now. Same size as the Postwar, just modern. I've got one on order.
Lionel made some modern ones in 2009 I believe.
K-line made a boxed set. I believe that they are Alcos but wouldn't swear to it. The detail is okay as I remember, but nothing to write home about. Williams did do an F3 in Texas Special.
I've loved the Texas Special paint scheme since I was a kid and we couldn't afford to buy one.
MTH has run them a few times in their Premier Line. One way back in 1995 and at least one more recently (2014???)
The Williams set is pretty much a copy of the PW version. It was sold as an AB like the original Lionel set but a second dummy A was offered as well. The K-Line F3 is an AA. It is scale as as detailed as their other F3s. No B unit AFAIK. They also have yellow on the nose.
Pete
Trainman52 posted:K-line made a boxed set. I believe that they are Alcos but wouldn't swear to it. The detail is okay as I remember, but nothing to write home about. Williams did do an F3 in Texas Special.
I've loved the Texas Special paint scheme since I was a kid and we couldn't afford to buy one.
The K-Line set was a custom run for a hobby shop down Texas-way, I forget which. It consisted of the O27 Alco's and K-Line's "stretched" 2400 series cars. Overall, it was a pretty nice looking set.
Rusty
I believe it was CTT, Collectible Toys and Trains. That's the set I have.
Norton posted:The Williams set is pretty much a copy of the PW version. It was sold as an AB like the original Lionel set but a second dummy A was offered as well. The K-Line F3 is an AA. It is scale as as detailed as their other F3s. No B unit AFAIK.
Pete
Just for the record, the real Texas Specials didn't use any B units. (The engines were also E-7s and not F units, of course.)
The small K-Line Alco TS set was indeed custom made for Collectible Trains and Toys, a train dealer that used to be in Dallas, and they marketed the set exclusively. As mentioned above, Lionel did a very nice TS set in 2009 (I believe). This was the Post War Celebration series set (still in high demand). More recently, they also did the Neil Young series TS set.
Williams did them in F-3 as well as E-7.
