BTW, this fellows listings have been puzzling me for a couple of days. Is the word "rake" a British term? None of the definitions in the American dictionary seems to fit the usage. Does "rake" mean lot? Group? A 'brace of connies'?
Yes it is British. There are 5 definitions for rake in the Oxford dictionary, this one is a connected string of railcars. http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/rake
Ah. If you specify N or even H0, yes, but think a bit wider in scope for a minute to all those probably millions of Lionel engines in three rail with "pancakes" that are still running strong...a lot from before WWII......
Maybe I'm more sour on them than most because I grew up in the late 80s and early 90s when they were the standard go-to HO train set motor... I can't remember having anything but trouble with the things. Bmann, Life Like, didn't matter. It wasn't until I got my first Blue Box locomotive that I realized all model trains weren't that unreliable! Never knew why until I got old enough to start pulling things apart to see what was under the hood. I bought one of those 2-6-4Ts once (long after they were out of production, so... it was something I'd never seen before and I didn't know about spookshow yet), just to see what it would do. It didn't. Never again. Some things just don't scale down well. If pancakes work on O gauge stuff, great... but they're not fit to power their own trip to the trashcan in anything smaller. Back on topic... no new funny links, but I not-so-recently ordered a locomotive from a well-known distributor (which shall not be named) via ebay. It was an international order, so long shipping window ranging from a week and a half to two weeks... okay, I don't mind waiting; I'm not in a hurry. Except... I didn't even get a shipping notification until two days after the end of the delivery window (which, the notification insisted, would still be met... by time travel, apparently). No explanation for the delay. Fast forward another week and a half, the thing finally shows up, and what do I find right under the lid but a 'friendly' reminder to leave positive feedback and 5-star ratings for shipping because "anything less than that can hurt a seller's reputation!" It's been a week since then, and I'm still deciding on whether or not to leave any feedback at all. On one hand, stuff happens, things get delayed, and I'd rather not slam somebody for an honest mistake... but on the other? It's a bit presumptuous to send your customer a naggy reminder about leaving positive feedback when you didn't provide the service that would merit the rating.
N-Scale -???? He bought it new in 1955 --- really?? I didn't know that United/PFM offered N-Scale steam locomotives. Does he really know what he has-? http://www.ebay.com/itm/UNITED-N-SC...940741?hash=item21149fd885:g:HFIAAOSwU-pXqctO Wolf
Hopefully it's just a slip of the button when they created their listing. The eBaY URL shows N, but the ad shows HO. I have done that myself.
Interesting -- the listing has been changed/corrected. When I first came upon it -- it was listed as N scale. Good for him - he has corrected the listing and put egg on my face. LOL Wolf
I may be wrong , but I believe it was probably made in the 70's . 1955 just sounds too early to me for the level of detail it has .
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bachmann-0-...361049?hash=item281e426ad9:g:6~oAAOSwaB5XsQy0 DCC???? I sent this seller a message with a link to the Bachmann catalog and said that I do not think it is DCC. I hope someone did not give him/her some false info when this seller got it and now there are just listing what they were told.
https://www.amazon.com/Bachmann-0-6-0-Switcher-Locomotive-Tender/dp/B0006N6LE0 $55 So far, none with dcc.....
