Some times I just get into a crazy rebellious mood and do things for the fun of it. I have run this car many times in public on NTRAK layouts and no one was the wiser for it. Actually I am kind of disappointing when no one calls my bluff. I call it my Stegid Sredaer special. I just filed the bolster pads flat and drilled the proper size hole for the MT pins. Right now it is wearing some old Intermountain trucks as I had need of the MT trucks I originally mounted on it.
Russell, Good job on foobieizing ( new word ) that car. Actually it looks better than the N scale cars put out by Broadway Limited this past year. The tank cars that were put out, by High speed, do not look very good but this past fair show one member brought about 8 of them and we stuck them back on a couple of sidings and grouped together they looked pretty good with a 10-12 foot viewing range. Not too bad as a filler. Carl
4-4-0? I have been following Dimestore and N Scale - sized trains (Hallmark ornaments, etc) but have never seen a HSP 4-4-0. Anybody have one? Also, some of the HSP items were painted up in Alaska RR but I don't know for who. Charlie Vlk
They certainly have ripped off a lot of people on Ebay with those. I actually have a couple that I keep handy as 'kid pacifiers' at shows that just have to touch something or pick something up. Here, you want to see one? You can look at this one. Just did an Ebay check and wow, the place is just plagued with high-speed, and all under N scale, not under collectibles, and several of the listings don't really distinguish that the stuff is nonoperable, or that the locomotive is just a display dummy. Price them up around where a locomotive would be, and wait for the unsuspecting. Aah, but there is another amazing and similar product - the Franklin Mint Worlds Greatest Railroad Cars - you'll pay more but you'll get a product that at a distance is a dead hit for an N scale model - with solid cast wheels under it. The unpainted ones are unlikely to fake anybody out but the painted ones listed under N scale, well, that can be a surprise. Similarly, if you could grind all that fake wheel crap off, there's actually a cast metal car there that isn't instantly dismissed. I got a circus flat just for the wagons, it was actually worth it. But I did feel a certain sense of High Speed Deja Vu there. You could crack walnuts with that flatcar.
