Lobaugh Challenger 1938-9 with new tender !

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Lobaugh Challenger 1938-9 with new tender !

Postby Carey Williams » Sun Oct 09, 2022 11:35 am

Hello all
Ebay find prewar Lobaugh Challenger open gearing ...outside 3rd rail .....no tender ...Bob Turner was very kind to fill the void ....thank you Bob !

If you would like to see a video of the Challenger (1938-9) ..(1940 Lobaugh uses it's first semi enclosed gearing drive) ... pulling a string of Lobaugh freight cars please see link

https://youtu.be/uCTuSgwR2gw

if you would like to see the workings ...K&D 4 double gear reduction etc please see

https://youtu.be/VG2Yrxh032I


Cheers Carey

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Re: Lobaugh Challenger 1938-9 with new tender !

Postby E7 » Sun Oct 09, 2022 6:02 pm

The Turner curse strikes again! Looks like the pilot wheels and some drivers are sitting inside the rail. :shock: :lol:

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Re: Lobaugh Challenger 1938-9 with new tender !

Postby J. S. Bach » Mon Oct 10, 2022 5:05 pm

It is the outside third-rail that gives it that appearance.

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Re: Lobaugh Challenger 1938-9 with new tender !

Postby bob turner » Mon Oct 10, 2022 7:19 pm

I bet that I have more photos posted here and on OGR with all wheels on the track than all the rest of you combined. So there.

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Re: Lobaugh Challenger 1938-9 with new tender !

Postby sleepmac » Tue Oct 11, 2022 3:44 pm

Bob, I'm sure that's true! LOL

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Re: Lobaugh Challenger 1938-9 with new tender !

Postby De Bruin » Tue Oct 11, 2022 9:41 pm

Sweet looking Loco there Carey, the Challenger is iconic and this one looks great!
As an aside you should plan on having the longest reefer block for it your layout can handle,
you won't regret it.
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Re: Lobaugh Challenger 1938-9 with new tender !

Postby De Bruin » Tue Oct 11, 2022 10:13 pm

I should've thrown in a kudos to Bob for facilitating this.

An aside the Amor Towles best selling novel "The Lincoln Highway" has a spectacular dust cover photo of a Challenger lugging a reefer block along what I think is US-80 in Wyoming. If I had to guess I'd say it was taken by either Victor Hand or Otto Perry.
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Re: Lobaugh Challenger 1938-9 with new tender !

Postby J. S. Bach » Tue Oct 11, 2022 10:15 pm

De Bruin wrote:Sweet looking Loco there Carey, the Challenger is iconic and this one looks great!
As an aside you should plan on having the longest reefer block for it your layout can handle,
you won't regret it.

For me, that would be four or five cars. Tank cars on the other hand! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :roll: :mrgreen:

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Re: Lobaugh Challenger 1938-9 with new tender !

Postby ScaleCraft » Thu Oct 13, 2022 1:40 pm

De Bruin wrote:I should've thrown in a kudos to Bob for facilitating this.

An aside the Amor Towles best selling novel "The Lincoln Highway" has a spectacular dust cover photo of a Challenger lugging a reefer block along what I think is US-80 in Wyoming. If I had to guess I'd say it was taken by either Victor Hand or Otto Perry.


The highway that follows the UP from Portland, or Astoria if you want to push it, all the way to the east of Wyoming, is US 30. I've driven most of it from Astoria to east of Cheyenne. Ends in New Jersey.
Interstate 80 replaced US 30. Numbering is somewhat reversed. Except for some oddities, like 2 and 6.
https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispe ... ghways.htm
US 80 goes from Sandy Eiggo to Savannah, Georgia. Right through your brothers town.
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