Minnehaha 561 Freight Loco

Hi Steve

   Very nice find.

Gary

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that is different, but I like it.

Great find, but not exactly like its Hiawatha prototype seen below in front of The Milwaukee Road's "Minnehaha" Depot near Minneapolis.

Bob Nelson

Steve... could you snap a photo of the existing siderod along with a tip-2-tip length measurement?  i have a few oddball siderods laying around, but i'm not sure where my Minnehahah (clockwork) is at the moment if that motor even uses the same type rod.

i wonder if Coleman and Marx had a few too many lunchtime cocktails when they released this one at Flyer and the Marx M10005 freight, though i do like the tinplate Hiawatha freight train.

nice find and a really fun name to say!

a mini-haha? --> 

cheers...gary

Gary

Here is the side rod, about 1 7/8" center to center. About 2 3/8 tip to tip.

Steve

Steve,

    Got to agree with you and man I would like to have one also!

PCRR/Dave

Steve,

It looks fairly easy to fabricate one of those side rods.

This one is so far out on the oddballs list I'm going to leave it to you Steve.  The first time I saw one of these, it stopped me cold.  Somebody actually made that?  And thought it was okay?  And then convinced marketing dept. it was okay??  Lunchtime cocktails, I guess maybe.  This thing is mind-altering all by itself.  It certainly is... distinctive.  Somebody broke all the rules and got away with it.  Just shows to go you.  Thanks for the grins!

david

Looks like the Aeolus (aeoli?) used the same side rods.

Cool! A streamlined Forney 0-4-4!

Or would it be a Mason?  LOL

The clockwork version does have a different layout of the siderod as can be seen here:

Regards

Fred

 Oh No!  It's finally happened - the rivet counters and the true-to-prototype crowd has invaded the Tinplate forum!!!!! Run for the hills!!!! 

  Seriously - there was another thread about the Minnehaha here on the tinplate forum awhile back where we talked about the resemblance between this engine and the two big name prototype engines of the day (that is ca 1935) and how it looked like AF was trying to appeal to the fans of the Milwaukee and the NYC by offering engines that offered an amalgam of the looks of both.

  Of course, at this late date such discussion is more conjecture than anything else but it is worth noting that the #9915 was described as being of the New York Central type.

  If you want to have some fun, scan a copy of the catalog cut of 9915 into a JPEG and play with the image in photoshop.  It is very easy to make a few small changes to the picture and get a result that resembles either the NYC Commodore or the Milwaukee Hiawatha.  You can do the same thing with the Minniehaha.

I have this engine too.

I need a wheel, it has a poor homemade brass wheel installed now.

Anybody stock these wheels ?

Are they also used on another AF model ?

*argh*...  you're right, that is a side rod.  i was thinking the electric version might have had a drive rod.  sorry, nothing like that in the scrap box.  well at least you have the one to make a pattern from.

i did find a picture of my clockwork passenger train, and it seems to have the same siderod, but on a stamped wheel.

cheers...gary

ok, hang on... i should have looked at that video first.  under a higher mag, i do see a drive rod (cylinder to wheel) but since it's in the worst position possible to see, i can't be certain it has those side rods (wheel to wheel).

now i'm going to have to search for that box!!

cheers...garh