Post by lvrr325 on Nov 4, 2022 14:56:00 GMT -8
I picked up six maybe 40s-50s vintage O 2-rail steam engines and a crane for ridiculously cheap. Trying to figure out who made them and maybe when. I figured out the 0-4-0 is likely a Thomas brand. But is there any sort of guide like an HO Seeker to use to try to ID the others, short of browsing vintage MR and RMC (well, just MC then) looking at the ads?
The crane is absurdly heavy, the whole base of it is cast and I think there's 15 lbs there.
There's a big Pennsy 2-8-4 with long tender, another maybe Nickel Plate 2-8-4, a small 2-6-6-2, a 2-8-0, a camelback I think 2-8-0 and the B&O C16A 0-4-0 which had a logo on the bottom that helped me figure out it's by Thomas. They were priced so absurdly cheap I hardly looked at them, I just got a box and filled it up. All of them are brass with some cast parts, some have monster huge motors inside.
The crane is absurdly heavy, the whole base of it is cast and I think there's 15 lbs there.
There's a big Pennsy 2-8-4 with long tender, another maybe Nickel Plate 2-8-4, a small 2-6-6-2, a 2-8-0, a camelback I think 2-8-0 and the B&O C16A 0-4-0 which had a logo on the bottom that helped me figure out it's by Thomas. They were priced so absurdly cheap I hardly looked at them, I just got a box and filled it up. All of them are brass with some cast parts, some have monster huge motors inside.
