where! I bought it and several other GG1 s and a rivarossi challenger from a collector several years back. I sold several of the GG1s for big money. Sold one for over $500 on ebay!
Here's my Arnold pride and joy: With smoke no less. I have a couple others in Santa Fe paint, no smoke and still in the shrink wrapped revell rapido box. Then there is this I did for a friend the other day: Remotored with the Mashima motor from an Atlas MP15: Worms from Kato and LED lighting added. That is about it for my Arnold collection. I have a friend who would be crying right now if he saw those two bay hopper shown earlier cut up like that. He is a big Arnold fan, even has one of the factory Arnold display layouts in process of restoration. He has been hunting for those working PS-2 hoppers to go with the 3-4 operating coal loaders he has.
Thnxs. Like I said...just curious. I sold a pair (one brunswick one tuscan) 2-3 years ago on FeeBay and always wonder why I dont see or hear about em...esp on TB. Seems someone wanted em really bad back then :tb-wink: .
Almost as old as I am. One of my favorites. This ALco T-6 heavily kitbashed switcher began life as a lowly S-2. Now has a pewter shell, low profile wheels, detailed, and DCC. The vents on the doors aren't rivet-counter correct, but I like it. And my celebration logo I made last year...
Rio Grande ALCo S2 Rio Grande F9 A/B set with matching Rio Grande passenger cars. Have 2 locomotive sets.
You painted it like that for him, or you just did the motor (not just, but I've only seen that GG 1 in O at a LHS by me and I can't afford it.)
Here are a few of mine: This is one of my favorites, the load is suposed to be actual barbed wire from the wall. My wife and I were in Berlin in the Summer of 90. We've been back a few times. Most recently this summer. This car was for the 20th anniv. The changes have been amazing. These 2 are a bit noisey. I think I might be able to quiet the grey one, but the green.... I don't think Amtrak actually did this one. I was wrong, I found a pic of 4905 And lastly, if Kato is listening, do that Conrail one next please...
Here is my 4-6-2 Pacific with a Bachmann long range tender modified to oil feed with an Ultimate N Scale Kato Mikado oil feed kit and Bachmann six wheel trucks. Have fun, Mark
Thanks guys!!!!! I just read every entry and looked at each photo and was really heartened to see the pride and joy their respective owners still have in these trains, despite their "shortcomings" (out of proportion, scale, paint, no prototypical accuracy, crude details, etc). Over the years, I have amassed a huge inventory of both old and new N scale locos, steam, diesel and traction. Despite the incredible proportion, detail and performance of the new stuff, I still revel in the old Arnold stuff, noisy and grindy as they are. I even keep a couple of frozen up 0-6-0's for display or yard storage queens. Frankly, I thought I was alone in my opinion of my old stuff, particularly the Arnold locos, and this thread really validated my melancholy. My thanks to Trainboard members and those who participated in this thread. PS. My real pride is also the metal FA1/FB1 sets, and the FP7's I was able to gobble up at swap meets, of which seems rare today. Ken "FloridaBoy" Willaman
Made for the 50 year anniversary of N-Guage. A stock but custom painted FA-2. Kitbashed T-6, Pennsy version. Kitbashed T-6, GHQ version.
"N-Guage"? Jeez Ron, how in the heck did you manage to get all those articles published? Put the editors on danger pay?? Cheers, -Mark ;-)
:blush: I ended up doing 3 of those old GG1's with that remotor setup. They run 100 times better than before.
Hmmm...Ken,far as I know,this is the only ABA set of Arnold FA's I've ever seen..And the B was made with a hacksaw,a file,and two unhappy old FA's,LOL!! They'll pull your house down,and draw about 10 amps...One thing I found about these,if you glue the motor nice and straight on the circuit board,they run much better & quieter..
I have installed Micro Trains couplers, NWSL wheelsets, a horn, and a rectangular stack as per the prototype, as well as custom painting it for the CB&Q. The two cars behind it are Kaslo Shops whalebelly cement car kits built and painted by a great modeler friend of mine (thanks Steve!).
I am hereby resurrecting this thread I have been in 9 mm model railroading since 1962 when I got my first Treble-O-Lectric train set for Christmas but in all the intervening years, I never bought much of anything Arnold Rapido, even though I was well aware of it. It's just because I started with Atlas and I guess I thought Arnold's realism was a little lacking. I was always curious about the locomotives, however, and recently, my curiosity got the best of me. There was a GP7 in a recent auction I won and it ran pretty good but the shell had been stripped of paint and not well. I decided to strip it the rest of the way with 90% IPA but it softened the plastic and it's ruined. Anyway, this little 0-6-0 was in another auction and I got it for 5 bucks. Some damage. The cab had the overhang at the back but about half of it was broken off so I just trimmed it flat across the back and installed couplers. It runs very smoothly and quietly Here is the Soo Line GP30 from another auction. Like new. And finally, a beautiful like-new Penn Central GG-1 I got for $54.99 in yet another auction. It runs beautifully. And now, I find my lack of desire for Rapido locomotives is at an end. Doug
I never knew about this thread. Neat trains Doug! I got my first Arnold set in 1968 with the 'Baldwin" switcher in C&NW which I still have in all its glory. Your li'l Rapido 0-6-0 remains an excellent runner in all of its variations. I was recently blessed through the generosity of a friend to once again have a Rapido old timer W&A 0-6-0 to replace the one I ruined as a teenager trying to repaint it.
Thanks, Hardcoaler! I didn't know about this thread either. I ran into it when I googled something else. Yes, the Baldwin switcher is now one of my quests, as well as the Pacific, FA unit, and S-2, the latter because they are die cast metal like Treble-O-Lectric. That and that big Pacific just looks so tough. My other known Arnold pieces are an old Pennsy gondola and later red Swift reefer. Doug
