What Make/model is this?

Shortround Nov 4, 2016

  1. Shortround

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    Could anyone tell the make and model of this engine? It worked the area I lived in when I was in grade school. Mainly the Co-op and Scott Paper mill in my city, Oconto Falls, WI, and industries over in Oconto, WI. It was all a plain dirty black with no lettering or safety strips.
    Also is it available from anyone. DC or DCC. Around here it was just switching with no turn arounds.
     
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  2. SLSF Freak

    SLSF Freak Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Looks to be a Baldwin VO-1000. Atlas made them in N-Scale. Not sure of manufacturers for other scales..

    -Mike
     
  3. maxairedale

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  4. Hytec

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    It may be a model of a Baldwin VO-1000. Your model has four stacks which i see in many 1:1 photos I found. But this is the only photo I found with a curved fairing from the cab to the battery box.

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  5. FriscoCharlie

    FriscoCharlie Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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  6. acptulsa

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    Actually, that's the late Baldwin VO. The early version has the oval grille. After the styling change came a new designation--Baldwin DS 4-4-1000. That might help you find the version you want.

    Or not. Baldwin liked styling changes, and later DS 4-4-1000s had a flat grille. Atheran made that version in HO--or, rather, made the S-12, with a single, fat turbocharger stack, which is easy to convert to a late DS 4-4-1000. That styling could have the four small stacks (early DS 4-4-1000) or the fat turbocharger stack (either late DS 4-4-1000 or S-12).

    Confused yet? Modeling Baldwin diesels is fun!
     
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  7. Rocket Jones

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    Atlas makes a version in N scale. I have the DCC model. I'm not worried about rivet-counting, so I don't know how perfectly accurate it is, but it runs very nicely.
     
  8. acptulsa

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    I believe that's the model pictured in post #3, isn't it?
     
  9. Rocket Jones

    Rocket Jones TrainBoard Member

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    Right you are. Mine is a later release, in B&O livery.
     
  10. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    If N scale, it is a VO-1000. Nothing else has been made in plastic, which I can remember. Although years ago there might have been something in brass.
     
  11. friscobob

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    Stewart Hobbies (or is it Bowser now?) offered them in HO scale.
     
  12. bremner

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    The model in the first post is 3 rail O...look at the couplers and the track.....
     
  13. bremner

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    Found it...it's a VO1000 made by MTH
     

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