01-12-2021, 10:17 AM
Interesting stuff, Frank.
I wasn't even aware that Globe had made freight cars, and in metal, too!
As a child, I had an A-B-B-A set of Globe F7 diesels with my first HO scale trains, painted and decaled by my father in the Santa Fe "war-bonnet" scheme. Only one of the B-units was powered, that with a single Lindsey truck which included the motor. As long as the brass wheels (and the brass track) were clean, it ran reasonably well. Athearn later picked up the dies for those diesels, and made thousands of them.
I later repainted them as CPR diesels, as I had often seen the real ones when I was younger, when we lived within view of the TH&B tracks (the CPR was part-owner, along with the NYC, of the TH&B and locos from all three roads could be seen regularly).
Some years later, I stripped-off all of the paint and redid them for my freelanced Elora Gorge & Eastern...
They were sold many years ago.
Wayne
I wasn't even aware that Globe had made freight cars, and in metal, too!
As a child, I had an A-B-B-A set of Globe F7 diesels with my first HO scale trains, painted and decaled by my father in the Santa Fe "war-bonnet" scheme. Only one of the B-units was powered, that with a single Lindsey truck which included the motor. As long as the brass wheels (and the brass track) were clean, it ran reasonably well. Athearn later picked up the dies for those diesels, and made thousands of them.
I later repainted them as CPR diesels, as I had often seen the real ones when I was younger, when we lived within view of the TH&B tracks (the CPR was part-owner, along with the NYC, of the TH&B and locos from all three roads could be seen regularly).
Some years later, I stripped-off all of the paint and redid them for my freelanced Elora Gorge & Eastern...
They were sold many years ago.
Wayne