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Posted: **Mon Apr 09, 2018 3:53 pm**

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Brass-O-Scale- ... SwOyJayrH5

One of the nicer looking Challengers out there!

Posted: **Mon Apr 09, 2018 4:11 pm**

E7 wrote:One of the nicer looking Challengers out there!

Indeed, but all it would do is sit on the mantel gathering dust. Damned expensive dust gatherer and damned few of these ran on the CVRR, :lol:

Posted: **Mon Apr 09, 2018 7:42 pm**

Gorgeous piece of work!!

Posted: **Mon Apr 09, 2018 8:03 pm**

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
E7 wrote:One of the nicer looking Challengers out there!

Indeed, but all it would do is sit on the mantel gathering dust. Damned expensive dust gatherer and damned few of these ran on the CVRR,

Why gathering dust? Bad runner?
Running one of those at the club would be sort of like driving around town in a Lambo...

Anyway, it is a good thingthe loco is not CVRR-appropriate. :lol:

Posted: **Mon Apr 09, 2018 8:18 pm**

No, some of the best runners. We talked of Henry Bultmann's imports before.

He used to deliver these by hand in person, and a nicer gentleman who cared more about his product was hard to find.

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 8:30 am**

rex desilets wrote:
Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
E7 wrote:One of the nicer looking Challengers out there!

Indeed, but all it would do is sit on the mantel gathering dust. Damned expensive dust gatherer and damned few of these ran on the CVRR,
Why gathering dust? Bad runner?

It's not going around 31" curves. Probably runs like a nice watch....

Running one of those at the club would be sort of like driving around town in a Lambo...

What club would that be? :roll:

Anyway, it is a good thing the loco is not CVRR-appropriate.

WM was a direct competitor of the CVRR to the point that the CVRR refused to permit the WM to cross its lines forcing the WM to build overpasses.

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 10:59 am**

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:WM was a direct competitor of the CVRR to the point that the CVRR refused to permit the WM to cross its lines forcing the WM to build overpasses.

So you put in an overpass on your pike and a bid or two later you have the CVRR and the Wild Mary Way Kool! :mrgreen:

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 2:13 pm**

E7 wrote:
Rufus T. Firefly wrote:WM was a direct competitor of the CVRR to the point that the CVRR refused to permit the WM to cross its lines forcing the WM to build overpasses.

So you put in an overpass on your pike and a bid or two later you have the CVRR and the Wild Mary Way Kool!

My layout is in a 9'x11' room. That engine is larger than the width of much of my layout.

For reasons that escape me to this day, folks think that all O scale layouts are in a barn somewhere and they are all using massive space and engines. That mythology is just one of the problems that holds O Scale back from having greater numbers involved.

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 3:35 pm**

Any of you that feel O Scale layouts should be in barn like structures, please bring hammers, nails, and barn material to my place! :mrgreen:

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 6:02 pm**

2railjon wrote:Any of you that feel O Scale layouts should be in barn like structures, please bring hammers, nails, and barn material to my place!

What, no Amish down you neck of the woods to raise a barn for you, :lol:

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 6:36 pm**

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
E7 wrote:
Rufus T. Firefly wrote:WM was a direct competitor of the CVRR to the point that the CVRR refused to permit the WM to cross its lines forcing the WM to build overpasses.

So you put in an overpass on your pike and a bid or two later you have the CVRR and the Wild Mary Way Kool!

My layout is in a 9'x11' room. That engine is larger than the width of much of my layout.

For reasons that escape me to this day, folks think that all O scale layouts are in a barn somewhere and they are all using massive space and engine s. That mythology is just one of the problems that holds O Scale back from having greater numbers involved.

I If you want to run a WM Challenger I suppose you'll need a barn, especially if your curves are larger than 31" :lol:

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 6:47 pm**

“
What, no Amish down you neck of the woods to raise a barn for you,“

We’re overrun with Amish that speak Spanish. But Trump is slowly fixing that! :mrgreen:

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 7:21 pm**

2railjon wrote:“
What, no Amish down you neck of the woods to raise a barn for you,“

We’re overrun with Amish that speak Spanish. But Trump is slowly fixing that!

If they can build you a barn, learn to speak Spanish, :wink:

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 7:48 pm**

If they can build you a barn, learn to speak Spanish

They de-bone chickens and mow lawns. No barn building.

Posted: **Wed Apr 11, 2018 8:13 am**

minimum radius for the C&LS WM M2 is 62 inches.

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