A scratch built Cherry Valley 0-6-0

[Dave Harris sctchbld]

Some pretty exceptional scratchbuilding. The dust and grime makes me think that this model is over 20 years old, am I correct? I really enjoy each and every detail you've added to this locomotive.

It looks almost identical to the somewhat new Bachmann spectrum 0-6-0T: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.wholesaletrains.com/Detail.asp?ID=200411524">http://www.wholesaletrains.com/Detail.asp?ID=200411524</a><!-- m -->

Good eye !! I'm glad you like it. Thanks .

Not 20 but about 12 or 15 . I was sitting around one night sorting through some" junk" I had collected over the years & came across the chassis for the 0-6-0 Mantua , I did a test run on the chassis & found it ran about 200 MPH!! It occured to me that perhaps an auxiallary transmission might make the little critter more docile. After building one it turned out the thing ran pretty nice , now what? I poked around in my Locomotive Cyclopedia & ran across the Cherry Valley so I built one.
I'm not sure about how close it is to a Spectrum but I have one of the new Mantua 0-6-0 tank engines & they are almost identical , a few very minor details are different . I bought the Mantua on e bay for next to nothing ( nine bucks still in it's box & looking brand new) after I got it, I found why I stole it so cheap--- the side rods one one side were gone!! I guess everybody else looked closer than I did , but I bought a junk old 0-6-0 & salvaged it. So now I'm back where I started with a junk 0-6-0 --- good thing I can't find my Locomotive Cyclopedia!!