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Andy
Has a look of a well done home brew. Got any pictures of the underside?
Steve
Yep, it a homebrew and not even tin! lol
It's sort of my Ode to Prewar! I used various Ives and Dorfan locos as guides as well as the Lionel Standard Gauge 33 (the no frame part) and freelanced it.
I had purchased a pair of mid '20's American Flyer coaches awhile back. The tab & slot couplers are higher than any of my Marx stuff so I needed something to pull them with without having to keep bending Marx couplers up high enough to mate. So until I can come up with a proper AF loco, I put this one together from scraps of plywood and PVC pipe, powered by a spare Marx motor.
Here's a shot from the erecting hall during construction....
I'll try to get a shot of the underside soon.
Amazing great looking locomotive 
Nice work! Looks really cool!
I would have never guessed that was made of wood, either...
I would have never guessed that was made of wood, either...
Originally Posted by handyandy:
Yep, it a homebrew and not even tin! lol
It's sort of my Ode to Prewar! I used various Ives and Dorfan locos as guides as well as the Lionel Standard Gauge 33 (the no frame part) and freelanced it.
I had purchased a pair of mid '20's American Flyer coaches awhile back. The tab & slot couplers are higher than any of my Marx stuff so I needed something to pull them with without having to keep bending Marx couplers up high enough to mate. So until I can come up with a proper AF loco, I put this one together from scraps of plywood and PVC pipe, powered by a spare Marx motor.
Here's a shot from the erecting hall during construction....
I'll try to get a shot of the underside soon.
I have a spare Marx motor might have to build something like this for it better than just having the spare motor sitting in my junk box 
looks like your user name is well deserved!
I am seriously impressed (and inspired...but I don't think we'd ever manage anything that slick.) Nobody would know what that was made of if you didn't tell them.
Your woodworking, and shaping of that PVC pipe is really good...as noted above, I
woulld have imagined sheet brass or even tin can metal...
there was a story in the mag years ago, Bill Roberts IIRC. He had the layout set on carpet padding. They did a follow up story on some of his custom locomotives. He did several out of pvc pipe, PRR T1, Milwaukee Bipolar.
Great work andy! You ought to consider going into business with these. I think Joshua Lionel got started with just a motor in the beginning. Maybe there is a back to the future moment in the works for you? 
