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weird...but cool....maybe

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2020 10:22 pm
by ScaleCraft
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Custom-Built-O ... 3839403242

Our good buddies in Buford.

Williams E-60, with old Atlas/Rivarossi 2-rail drives.

Not too bad at $73.71, if they include the original drives!

Cannot imagine why someone would put old Atlas drives in it and expect it to...well...function.

Maybe they had and old F-9 and said, what the heck?

Not Tested. Good get-out-of-jail-free card played there.

Plausible deniability and all that.

TCA C-6? Okay.

Re: weird...but cool....maybe

Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2020 12:56 am
by De Bruin
I saw that and thought it looked pretty cool but yeah, it's supposed to be an "E60C* as in 6000 hp with C trucks.
I'm guessing someone nicked the original Williams drive for a three-rail project or drive replacement
with shell winding up in "what-if-land."
Opinion but one sees an unusually large number of these "out-there" projects on Train-Z.

Conversely you'd think Roco drives on a electric passenger engine is a bad idea but
both Roco and Rivarossi used their weak *** drives on their models of European prototype diesels
and electric box cabs too, though in fairness the (very nice) cars they sold to go with them were really light-weight

Re: weird...but cool....maybe

Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2020 1:05 am
by ScaleCraft
yeah...really light weight, as in, don't leave a window open in the train room or they'll all blow off the track.