If Bachmann did not produce the GE 45-tonner--who made the two I have here--center cabs. siderods--??gj

Grande had several water cars in the 047x series.  gj

the Grande had several water cars in the 047x series--so this falls into the realm of "Might have been's"  gj

Trackside Details has a lot of basic pasrts--including domes.  You might be on your own for a cab--although I think there are some companies making laser-cut kits.  Evergreen has styrene sheet and shapes.

glennk28

What is the ancestry of this car?  Is it in Sloan's book?
glenn k28

I am an old geezer who will be 72 my next b'day--My first trainset came in the depths of WWII--when such things were not allowed to be made.  Lots of things were rationed--so the second-hand market was my source of trains and other "necessities"for a 3-year-old.

My parents did not smoke, but they bought their ration of cigarettes every week and stashed them away .  For Christmas 1943 (or possibly 1944) they put an ad on a bulletin board for a train--offering to trade cigarettes for one.  They got lots of offers to buy the cigarettes, but "A little boy needs a train  for Christmas".  Eventually they found a Marx "Army Supply Train"--a wind-up one at that--because they were worried about me having an electric one at that age.

I can't really say that I still have it--but over the years A have managed to find most of the components of the electric version.

  Even earlier--my mother that my dad had a set of Tootsie Toy trains when he picked us up at the hospitalwhen  I was born!

steel wheels and axles will rust--but then they do on the full-size too.  gj

In re-working the handcar, how about revising it to run on a AA penlight cell?  That could reazlly be fun--gj

well--I finally got my order in--almost an hour--thanks. B-Man--I still have a couple of those calendars--gj

All I wanted to do was order a 2013 catalog.  Why is it so complicated.  I have spent a half hour trying to tell your comfuser my info and it does not seem to like me.   Why do I need a password to get a catalog.  I have no idea what it is--it said it would send me  a new one, which I willl probably forget as well.  HELP!!

Thank you

Glenn  Joesten   PS--B'man--I have a spare copy of the fmous Orchard Supply Hardware calendar but have also lost your address--if you c an send off-list.

Miniatronics has "golden white" LED's that really look good--come with ballast resistors--test before you solder the wires to make sujre the polarity is right.  the LED's last almost forever.  gj

Finally decided to download and save the C-19  video.  Was only able to get a You-Tube of the first part (the history)-- but not the maintenance part. How do we do this??     (Really wish you still packed the video with the loco--

Thanks--
Glenn Joesten

the brakeman has a lantern--available separately.  On mine, I feed the track power thru a small bridge rectifier so the lanatern does not go out when backing--connect the AC terminals to the track and DC to the lantern.  gj

Thanks--have it displayed along with HOn3 and On3 versions--gj

B'man--The first thing I did after I got my C-i9 unpacked was to send in my marranty card and the catalog order with a check to PO Box 1915 Philadelphia-Today I got those back with a nasty note from the Post Office to return to sender--vacant--unable to forward--Thisx packed in with a model just released.  What.s going on?? anyone else get this?

Glenn Joesten