AHM'S / LIMA's 2-6-4

I believe I found the 1:1 model which LIMA produced for AHM and it is READING No.376.

Tom

 

Actually,very close to a Philadelphia & Reading Q1b Adriatic locomotive,which is a 2-6-4T..The Lima is somewhat a little more European,though.I have several I updated with Arnold chassis,and "Americanized"..

 

Lima used the same mechanism with different body shells to produce American, British and European (Swedish from memory) locomotives.

In the seventies you could buy them for $6 in Australia and I think for a while some shops were selling them for $2 to get rid of them.