My wife found this set at a garage sale (and another N-scale one) and brought it home to surprise me. It only included the cars and the loco. She paid $10 for both. I found a pic of the set in the box using Google. I have all of the cars displayed in the set. I plan to keep and use this set since it runs like new and is perfectly quite and smooth. The loco has 12 wheel drive (SD-40 I think). I do have the following questions: 1. Who made this? It say made in Slovenia By IIEHANO on the loco. I have never heard of them. 2: The road number is 2001, is that also when it was made? 3: What was the origional selling price? 4: Has anyone seen this before? Attached are links to the pictures of it and the picture of the box I found using Google.
I just found 2 of sets of them on e-bay.search under model trains. for
eckerd. one said they were made by IHC.they were listed under HO scale.there were also a few loose car also for sale.
Now knowing the manufacturer what is the possibility that is I find a different shell for the same model loco on EBay they will be interchangeable? I am impresses with how well this loco runs for a cheep one. I can even make it creep, it runs silent and is very smooth. I would like to keep the current shell just because I have the full set of cars.
The loco looks more like an SD40-2 (EMD).
Just a thought since there are three vents at the rear on top one in the middle being smaller and having two vents above the dynamic brake and the long nose.
That would be an SD40-2 as BC pointed out. Mehano is the manufacturer, they did a lot of work for IHC. 2001 is the year of issue though I couldn't tell you the price. I can tell you that a sawbuck for that set is a pretty good deal:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
This may be a little random but.
I dont like it when model maunfacturers put unrealistic roadnumbers on their engines and rollingstock. Especially with Lionel and the T-#####. It just doesn't look rite.
Know what you mean, BC, it doesn't take that much work to fake it.
That's what makes this Bachmann GP38 so cool. For a super cheap trainset loc, it is the correct road number and unit for Conrail...how cool is that?:thumbsup:
That is a Bachmann? It looks just like my Life-Like GP38.
Yes, roadnumbers are important to me and have to be reallistic as posible, unfortunatly this one is not perfect. This is actaully suppose to be a MLW M-630 not a GP38. But it's bcrail and they are hard to find.
Trial and error. I have worked with a few HO switchers. Their shells were very much alike but not exact. I would guess with some cut and epoxy something should work. This is a common question but a vast unknown.
My GP38 is new, old stock never run. I haven't even used it myself yet. Just bought it from ebay with a Lima as well.
It looks good in the photo but close up there is some un even painting.
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