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HERE'S something I'd LOVE to buy in On30!!!
It's a mainline Northern narrow-gauge ALCo diesel....
"Sound Value" would be GREAT in this one!! :o
LGB Trains did a G Scale version in the late 80's, that sold well!! ;)
8) While I'm at it.....
How about some
SCALE
O scale buildings - even as kits??? Structures appropriate for a Narrow Gauge Layout!! ;D
What do you guys think???
Quote from: pacbelt on September 06, 2013, 04:56:59 PM
8) While I'm at it.....
How about some SCALE
O scale buildings - even as kits??? Structures appropriate for a Narrow Gauge Layout!! ;D
What do you guys think???
There's quite a number of places already offering suitable structure kits. I'd be against offering structures ready made. This is meant to be railroad
modelling after all and I don't call taking something out of a box actual modelling. Also, it's bad enough that so many ON30 layouts resemble each other because Bachmann dominate the supply of rtr engines and stock. If we start using ready made structures as well it'll be even worse.
LGB's six-axle WP&Y diesel was shamelessly condensed. A lot of the long hood was trimmed so that an LGB 2056 could make it around LGB's tight curves. A scale-length model would prove quite a surprise to many modelers expecting it to navigate curves of 22 inches or less.
I admit that I'm waving a flag for a GM GA-8 like the ones used in Mexico and Central America. However, I'm not sure they could make it around a 22 inch curve either.
--Lee DeGolyer
Quote from: pacbelt on September 06, 2013, 01:44:38 AM
LGB Trains did a G Scale version in the late 80's, that sold well!! ;)
Having been to Skagway and ridden the White Pass, as cool as I think the diesels on this narrow gauge are, these locomotives are HUGE.
The Alcos, the one depicted in the photograph, are essentially standard gauge locomotives on narrow gauge trucks. The GEs, the shovel nose diesels, are huge as well but a bit shorter.
Still, they would make very cool models, you just would have to use broad curves.
I'd go for these--but would actually prefer the earlier "90" series--the "Shovel -Nose" GE's--but I would hope that the designers leave enough room around the trucks so that us On3'erscan easily re-gauge them-
Also--I would like to see the ET&WNC piggyback car (done some years ago in G Scale) done in On30.
SP(ng)#1:
http://www.lifewastedchasingtrains.com/main.php?g2_itemId=2174
Rich Yoder had / SP #1 in bra$$--it was available in On30 as well as On3lgj
I beleive that there may be a small number still avaialble, I was thinking of buying one, but the fact is they are expensive and we have to pay VAT (value added Tax) which is 20% of the invoice value + a Royal Mail service charge so that increases the price quite a bit.
I have had emails from The supplier offering 10% discount buit that was some months ago.
I was a little concerned that the SP-1 is only powered on 1 bogie (truck), there is a review some where stating that it hauled 3 box cars up a gradient, to me that didnt seem to make it very powerful.
I believe though that in its 6 years on the Keeler Branch its trains were quite short ones,
I have built a few 0n30 NG diesels from Boulder Models parts using Bachmann Sound Chassis, they are quite easy to build and run well, haulage up a 1 in 25 gradient 6 or 7 Bachmann freight cars
I forgot about SP1!!! :o
That would make a GREAT On30 model!!
What do you say, Bach Man!!???? 8)
I'm one of MANY who represent 3-foot gauge with On30!!!
I don't recall there being too many Rivet Counters in "Owen Thirty"!!! ;)
I STILL want that ALCo WP&Y Diesel - even if it needs a little "selective compression" to get it around ez-track.....
~ NOT as crammed as LGB's effort! (They made that to be able to get around the equivalent of a 15" radius curve, in O scale!!)
YOUVE ALREADY GOT the sound board, from your RS-3 or S-2, in HO scale!!
As far as buildings - INEXPENSIVE (but more realistic than "Plasticville") Kits, of structures NOT like everything else....
A word of warning regarding SP no. 1. I bought the Yoder model and discovered that it needed more clearance than did most On30 equipment. I'd run it on some of the Texas Outlaw modules and it would find stock pens and loading platforms to whack as it went along.
Which is understandably upsetting.
I suspect that I'm going to have to learn to scratch-build/kit-bash a credible-looking diesel body and put it on an HO switcher or road-switcher body.
I am looking forward to seeing and buying the Bachmann Whitcomb when it comes out.
Doesn't the RGS have a small GE based on a 44-ton that's had the clearances cut down (low cab) for narrow gauge use?
I would think this would be the best option for Bachmann because they've already done GE 44 and 70 ton engines in HO and N, so to scale up to an O narrow gauge variant wouldn't be too hard.
But as noted it's liable to be bigger and wider than you'd expect.
Not RGS, but SP #1 was a single-end 50-tonne with a low cab. r--Rich Yoder did it in bra$$-- I think that there wer3 a couple of similar units at Plaster City, later at Georgetown Loop--gj
If you go to the On30 Kitbashing or Conspiracy forums, look in my Spring Creek Models photo folder. I have run some castings for a On30 diesel body that is dased on a GE Export prototype but slightly modified. It will fit on either HO chassis, S scale chassis, or it will use the NWSL power trucks. I have sideframes that measure out to a 6 foot wheel base that will fit these. These are resin castings and have basic details and are easily modified for any kit bashing project. I plan to offer thses on an order filled basis. Priced VERY reasonable. Send me an email if interested. Katmedia@live.com
As I think of it--D&SNG has several small center-cabs----I think from a steel mill somewhere--gj
Of course, after I post in this topic I see the Whitcomb due out in January.