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On30 / Suggestion- Baldwin outside frame 0-6-2T
November 04, 2017, 10:58:04 PM
My family and I spent a little over a week on the island of Kauai in 2016, during which time I became fascinated with the history of the Hawaiian sugar railroads.  In the year plus since, I've often thought that one of the Baldwin outside frame 0-6-2T locomotives once so common throughout the islands would be a perfect addition to the On30 line, especially in as much as so many of them were built to 30-inch gauge.  I see in doing a search of the archives this product has been suggested a couple times in the distant past, the last specific ones being close to a decade ago. 

Three of these still exist on Kauai, and several more 36" gauge machines exist elsewhere.  One of these served for a while on the Roaring Camp & Big Trees.  The three on Kauai are all 30" gauge and part of the Grove Farms collection...

https://grovefarm.org/hawaii-trains/

There's also a nice video of one of these in operation from a couple years ago on the short amount of trackage Grove Farm has:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcnwsAOtagw

I'd like to revive the suggestion of producing these plus a string of cane cars in On30...I know my wallet would be in some measure of jeopardy should these be made...

Jeff Moore
Elko, NV 
#2
HO / 3 Truck Climax???
February 17, 2007, 01:55:06 AM
On my infrequent trips through the old forums, I recall seeing some discussion of what became of the plans Bachmann announced a while back to do a 3-Truck Climax. 

Does anyone know, or can anyone say, if this is still something that we are likely to see?

Thanks in advance...and I apologize if this has already beey driven into the ground before.

Jeff Moore
Elko, NV