bob2 posted:It isn't that I look down upon tinplate trains - it is just that, while I admire them in the same way that I admire ship and airplane models, I do not spend much time looking at either.
But I do have 700-series cars and locomotives, and consider them good enough to run on full scale 2-rail track. I just stumbled here because I saw the title over in the list of new posts. I will go anywhere to see a writeup like this!
Who knows? I might build a scratch model around such a set of B6 drivers. The Lionel rendition of those drivers seems more accurate than most.
Bob2, I dug out the six wheels that are two railed and I thought might have come off a 227 type locomotive. After a closer look it is clear that they are not Lionel wheels, but are still interesting. They are magnetic, probably cast iron. Three wheels are insulated, two of them are on the axles. The third axle is not there. One wheel has a cam on it, do not know what that is for. None have gears on them and they do not have the Lionel style cam that drives the valve gear. They are sitting in front of a 227 and you can see they do not have the fine detail of the Lionel die cast zinc wheels. Let me know if you are interested in them.
