Here's mine. A Conrail diesel. Not sure who made it exactly. But a member from one of my modular groups gave it to me. Not sure of the name. Maybe a mix of a GP-7 and a SD-60?
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Ace, I like that! What a great way to save an old Marx item and make it earn it's "keep".
Mine is a really beaten up Lionel prewar steam switcher which I bought recently and I'm trying to give it its ninth life. I started another thread about it:
https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/t...team-switcher?page=1
It is currently outshopped for heavy repairs with the great Harry Henning who is working his magic. I hope to start up my thread again in a few weeks.
To me, what is odd about it is the amount of abuse that this poor locomotive had...dings on the drivers, e-unit coil wire shot, broken off headlight, pilot/front steps and handrail stanchions, missing smokebox, tear in the cab roof...yet all the rods are in place and the cab steps are there.
Tom
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Rare Adriatic Climax geared loco. Actually an American Flyer plastic loco shell on assorted O-gauge wheels with Marx tender, static display. The "main drivers" are a prewar 6-wheel passenger car truck. The Keystone Cops Academy is conducting a training excercise in a postwar olive drab gondola.
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Disneyland Monorail, first version. These are Marx M10000 cars that were complete rust buckets. The motor is from a mid-90's Lionel 2-4-0 and the "cabs", front and rear were made of soda can aluminum hot glued together. The side skirts were strip aluminum also hot glued to the shells. The pylons were square bass with O gauge track clips nailed to the top acting as both track connectors and mounting to the pylons. Those are real marble chips providing the necessary weight at the pylon bases. There were also small strips of clear plastic attached to the bottom center of each track section to help prevent spreading. One section had fahnestock clips from an old leaf contactor to provide the power connections.
Owing to the cars having only one axle, the skirts would hang low and often caused the train to derail. The only workable solution I could come up with would have been to increase the track radius from O31 to O42 or greater to help prevent the derailments. Considering the size of the Disneyland layout, it wasn't economical to spend the money on a solution that "might" work better. It was cheaper to just buy the battery powered Monorail available through the Disney Store. Besides, at O31, the minimum layout for my homemade version, it just sort of circled Space Mountain and looked a bit ridiculous. 
My one of a kind home-brew "prewar tinplate" loco. Made of wood and plastic, but no tin other than the motor mounts for the Marx motor that powers it...
"My one of a king home-brew "prewar tinplate" loco. Made of wood and plastic, but no tin other than the motor mounts for the Marx motor that powers it..."
My kind of guy.
What I would love to see is one of you Marxists (I am a Marxist Fellow Traveler, myself - but I have to suppress it - already have too much stuff) do a little version (an "interpretation"), of the PRR T-1 4-4-4-4 or S-1 6-4-4-6 duplexes using a couple of 0-4-0 motor units. You only need to get the shape about right; F/R trucks could be optional. (But we know who made some 027 6-wheel engine trucks...) The motor units would need to swivel in their mounts a bit.
See? Already designed for you.
D500 posted:... What I would love to see is one of you Marxists (I am a Marxist Fellow Traveler, myself - but I have to suppress it - already have too much stuff) do a little version (an "interpretation"), of the PRR T-1 4-4-4-4 or S-1 6-4-4-6 duplexes using a couple of 0-4-0 motor units. You only need to get the shape about right; F/R trucks could be optional ...
Even better, a custom Marx Triplex by Windupguy:
https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/t...lockwork-963-project
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RaritanRiverRailroadFan4 posted:Here's mine. A Conrail diesel. Not sure who made it exactly. But a member from one of my modular groups gave it to me. Not sure of the name. Maybe a mix of a GP-7 and a SD-60?
Looks like a chopped up GP-40.
I built this derelict steam locomotive to sit on the dead track behind the engine house.
I love it, Penny has three rail and pretends only the center rail is there 
This is a tough choice. I can't pick one to call most odd, maybe you can tell me?......The contenders:
The odd thing is, I set this up for double heading two Generals.
Below is the GG 1/2 , they chopped one up to use as an ice melter, so I followed suit. Ill finish her off one day.
This little tea pot is waiting on inspiration for power, but rolls great! Maybe I'll power a car to push it
The Martian War Bonnet isn't exactly normal, lol.
Before that this little cab forward dockside pulled my Looney Tunes space train full time. The Harlequin paint was to compliment the day glo colors of the Looney Tunes cars, but it does well with PW and MPC colors too. Adding weight made this a great little puller.
Last but not least, On30 kludge with no real prototype. The motor in the oil tender. Interlocking parts and the magnets in the motor actually hold this tendwr together.Side frames for the loco are ready, the tender frames are not trimmed. It runs great, a former Lifelike F 7 or F9 A unit.
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Ace posted:D500 posted:... What I would love to see is one of you Marxists (I am a Marxist Fellow Traveler, myself - but I have to suppress it - already have too much stuff) do a little version (an "interpretation"), of the PRR T-1 4-4-4-4 or S-1 6-4-4-6 duplexes using a couple of 0-4-0 motor units. You only need to get the shape about right; F/R trucks could be optional ...Even better, a custom Marx Triplex by Windupguy:
https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/t...lockwork-963-project
Ah, I see my reputation has preceded me!
I have been following this thread - and have thought about posting - but hadn't made up my mind about which locomotives to post. After all, I have a lot of oddball stuff on the rails. The 1203 Triplex is a good choice, though.
As my screen name implies, I concentrate on O gauge windup trains, mostly domestic in origin. I do a lot of repair and custom work on them for fun. The Triplex was the first of several projects that I have done to get more pulling power out of the little spring powered locomotives. Here is another video that shows several of the more muscular windups in operation:
However, perhaps the most odd locomotive on the railroad is my Radio Controlled Commodore Vanderbilt. It is a common, late model Marx windup CV with a modified mechanism and a radio control receiver that allows me to start and stop it at will, as well as control the speed. I enjoyed this project because of the anachronistic pairing of the archaic windup motor with modern radio control... lots of fun, especially at train shows!
That's all for now... 
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Love the RC controlled Vandy!
Here is my beloved homemade
Ivor the Engine (nee Percy)
Doug Murphy posted:Love the RC controlled Vandy!
Here is my beloved homemade
O scale Ivor the Engine. Now that's a first. Came out great! Great show too.
Nothing can be done to mask the fact that this primitive is homemade. Whether it would actually fire and run is unknown and I worry it would probably be lethal to do so. Not that I'm afraid of steam, but when you add liquid fuel into the equation, no thanks. The tender is also constructed to handle pressure, hence the real rivets and the upright Schrader valve stem. I'm not certain whether the 1924 penny attached to the smoke box door represents a build date as I suspect it's not that old.
Bruce
Adriatic posted:I love it, Penny has three rail and pretends only the center rail is there
Yes. Really more of an elevated railway! 
Bruce, I'd be tempted to try to anneal it, then pressurize the boiler with just air, from an air compressor, then go from there. Neat though, even as a shelf Queen I like it.
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RaritanRiverRailroadFan,
Ivor says he's pleased to be remembered. His top left-hand corner of Wales is the theme of my layout. 
Adriatic posted:Bruce, I'd be tempted to try to anneal it, then pressurize the boiler with just air, from an air compressor, then go from there. Neat though, even as a shelf Queen I like it.
Very nice, is it O gauge standard or gauge 1?
I would not pressurize the boiler with a air compressor. First thing would be to do hydro test, to plug all outlet (leave gauge or install a known working gauge) and completely fill with water. Use propane torch to the boiler and try to raise pressure 100 lbs or so. When you remove the torch from the boiler them pressure will go up a bit as the copper is contracting/shrinking (this is a interesting point).
I would rather have the boiler pop with water than have a large quantity of air in the boiler. A boiler pressurize with air could be dangerous. If you want to see if the engine works, disconnect the feed to the cylinder and apply air pressure to those. If you have a leak, only use silver solder do not use silfos or regular solder. Silfos will crack with age and soft solder will let go when you run out of water or the temperature of the boiler gets hotter than the melting point of the soft.
The tender may be pressurized as it may be for a torch in the boiler. The fuel could be alcohol of something like a Coleman fuel. I would look at this point last
Just take your time and enjoy.
Th engine looks like it was made out of copper tubing if it was rolled then riveted just use it as a shelf queen (riveted seamed boiler could be hazardous). I built some model boilers for RC operated steam launches (fire tube type).
Doug Murphy posted:RaritanRiverRailroadFan,
Ivor says he's pleased to be remembered. His top left-hand corner of Wales is the theme of my layout.
Oh I'd love to see some pictures. My favorite scene in the show was I think a scene where Ivor was stopped at a signal box and an LNER A4 rushes by. You could kind of tell it was an A4. I'm off topic. Should make a new post.
I remember that scene. There's a thread from 2012 with photos from the layout - search 'Ivor the Engine' - the layout has the shed, signal box, Llaniog, Pugh's Pit; Mrs. Porty's manse, Dinwiddy's mine; Smoke Hill, Grumbly Town, Pugh's Farm and the main line junction - where the A4 goes by with the express - in my imagination...
Good point Ron, not that I'd want to be near it at high pressure anyhow. I've started "a few" large static boiler systems before too. You let them sit pressurized to various points for hours, then at full pressure, overnight and repeatedly too. I was tired and didn't really think about others lacking experience. Plus I've gotten the impression in the past that Bruce is knowledgeable and careful about things in general. If he doesn't know he asks.
Boilers, even little ones, are no joke, and even 20lbs of cold pressure can be dangerous if the container fails.
