Any one recognize the maker?

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Wolf
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Any one recognize the maker?

Postby Wolf » Sat May 05, 2018 9:39 pm

I bought this for a friend (sounds like an excuse, but it's true) as a result of my purchasing
a no-bid diesel switcher from an eBay seller by my making an offer after the auction closed.
After we wound up that transaction with the paperwork and all, he mentioned "by the way,
I have another switcher, but it doesn't have a tender..." He didn't quite know what he had,
and thought that it was also a 2-rail AC locomotive, "just like the switcher that he just sold me"...
Thank goodness for "universal" motors! The guy quoted me his TCA number and all, but had
no clue about 2-rail.
After some further haggling about the price, we agreed and ended up splitting the shipping 50-50
because that locomotive was MUCH heavier that the switcher we started out with.

This locomotive has a cast brass or bronze boiler that weighs 6 or 7 pounds, obviously a Pennsy H-10
(or as I like to prod my Pennsy freak friend for whom I bought it--a Great Northern Rwy 2-8-0 :lol: ...)

I found no "maker's mark" anywhere in all the usual suspect locations. Perhaps someone can
give me a few other places to look? Or does anyone recognize the builder from the photographs?
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Take care,
Wolfgang

bob turner
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Re: Any one recognize the maker?

Postby bob turner » Sat May 05, 2018 10:06 pm

Photos are too dark. Saginaw? Does it have a tender?

J. S. Bach
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Re: Any one recognize the maker?

Postby J. S. Bach » Sun May 06, 2018 8:21 pm

Kind of looks like a CLW (Saginaw) to me, too.
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bob turner
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Re: Any one recognize the maker?

Postby bob turner » Sun May 06, 2018 8:47 pm

Difference - CLW had a steel plate holding the drivers in, and usually (but not always) plastic drivers with flanges on all. Also a big gearbox on #2 driver. Early CLW was almost identical to Saginaw.

Wolf
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Re: Any one recognize the maker?

Postby Wolf » Mon May 07, 2018 12:04 pm

No tender, no steel plate holding drivers in, all-metal drivers, center drivers blind, open gear on #3 driver.....
Take care,
Wolfgang


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