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Need ID on a Loco
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Wallace


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PostPosted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 2:15 am    Post subject: Need ID on a Loco Reply with quote
Again, an engine from the owner of the "Renown"

No idea what make, but would like to find out.

Never been steamed, and I think it is 45mm gauge












Sorry for the pic quality

Thanks for any help
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 3:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sorry dont know that one.
Certainly not early Australian.
From the style of the loco I would guess made in America but thats only a guess.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 4:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I was thinking American too.


The owner actually thought it was Japanese made, which it could be?

But I was thinking PPS, Roundhouse, something like that?
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 5:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
PPS and Roundhouse are English companies, definately not Roundhouse and pretty sure not PPS.

I dont know all the American companies though and dont know any of the Japanese ones.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 7:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Looks scratch built.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 7:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I dont think it scratch built as look at all the detail pressed into the metal of the cabin.
That would take a serious setup to do that.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 8:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ive seen some serious scratch built stuff in my time - that would be no trouble for a dedicated builder.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 8:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
SPOKESMAN wrote:
Ive seen some serious scratch built stuff in my time - that would be no trouble for a dedicated builder.


True well within the reach of a serous model engineer but what makes me think not scratch built aswell is I think I've seen something very similar elsewhere.....if only I can remember where.......
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 9:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Can't think of a maker, but certainly it's an American 'camelback' loco
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 9:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Can't think of a maker, but certainly it's an American 'camelback' loco


thats not a camel back MTA

it looks more like a narrow gauge porter logging loco
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 9:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Lewis wrote:
MTA wrote:
Can't think of a maker, but certainly it's an American 'camelback' loco


thats not a camel back MTA

it looks more like a narrow gauge porter logging loco


I'm not to good on foreign locos Aye, something like a Porter or a Baldwin
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 9:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
this is a camelback loco

http://www.bridge-line.org/blhs/i...nn-Jay/Camelbacks/camelback_A.jpg
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 9:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Lewis wrote:
this is a camelback loco

http://www.bridge-line.org/blhs/i...nn-Jay/Camelbacks/camelback_A.jpg


It's, umm, different
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 10:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Lewis wrote:
this is a camelback loco

http://www.bridge-line.org/blhs/i...nn-Jay/Camelbacks/camelback_A.jpg


Horror of horrors . . . .
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 10:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
aye it is a horror
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