Hi all, Wondering if someone might be able to help. I can't identify this model: I picked it up in an auction. No markings anywhere. Looks like a white metal kit/conversion, heavy. Nice details, added ladders, cylinders. Can't find it online anywhere. There is an old Cary Boxcab shell conversion kit, but this one has a round fan cast into the top and different stacks than the Cary shell. Searched for too long. Tried boxcab, box cab, brass, 0-4-0, switcher, diesel in many configurations but nothing matches in images anyway. Thanks for any help.
Good question. Hmmm. Lionel did one in O gauge. But this doesn't look similar, as they did with some of their HO. It does look nice, not like a cheap HO toy version.
It has elements of a pair of Athearn Hustler cabs, and a bonnet, cut-and-shut, together with a radiator from a Roundhouse box cab, but it is a nice find, is it controllable or is it a "Jack-rabbit" dragster?
It looks to me like someone took an MDC/Roundhouse box cab and took a chunk out of the middle and planted it on an Athearn Hustler chassis, but if it's metal, that leaves that out. If it's some kind of kitbash, it's very cool!
Looks like somebody changed the roof details, here is the original Cary Casting picture. http://hoseeker.net/CareyInformation/carycatalog1983page07.jpg Rick J
Oh man, I want at least two in N-SCALE which will go nicely with the two I kit bashed by using a pair of BACHMANN PLYMOUTH six wheel Switcher chassis and old cabooses carbodies... They would be painted and lettered for the JAMESTOWN and NORTHWESTERN RR . Tom
In the early days of diesels, steam wheel arrangements were used to describe them. Then the B-B C-C etc came along. That unit looks a lot like the early Alco-GE-IR boxcabs of the mid-1920s, except those were B-B trucked engines. The roof details are very close to those.
Thanks all. I dug for hours but could not find a clear photo like that Cary ad. The more I looked at it, the more I realized it probably is the Cary conversion. This was modeled/converted very well. The roof additions threw me off. The fan shroud(?) is metal and so well engineered into the shell that I thought it was cast in place. I see now that it was expertly milled out and added. I need to clean up the grease/oil/gunk and test it. Fairly good shape except for a dented corner of the roof. Now.... wondering if it is a "generic" model or has a specific prototype. Been searching for a "4 wheel" box proto. Some are very close but exact. I would have thought Cary would have modeled something specific. The fan shroud seems too modern but the body length/openings and small "hoods" seem to have been thought out. Hoods are not needed for mechanism and stray from the standard flat faced boxcab look of the time... Continuing to search... I need to dig deeper, not wider.
