HO steam lovers, look here!

[Truemac]

http://www.mthhotrains.com/newsdetail.asp?artid=307#

Thought you guys might like to see this. They're making an HO version of their Triplex locomotive!

I know I'll be getting one!

 

[CasyJ]

http://www.mthhotrains.com/newsdetail.asp?artid=307#

Thought you guys might like to see this. They're making an HO version of their Triplex locomotive!

I know I'll be getting one!

I remember when you could buy an entire HO layout complete with locomotives, rolling stock and trackside accessories for less than $40.00 US. Now it's 500 buck for one locomotive. How times have changed!

 

[Klinger]

Correction, its already being sold

Soon as I get a job, me and my girlfriend are splitting the cost 50/50

Just have to have it, too unique

 

[HSSRAIL]

The model will work a lot better than the prototype the boiler could not make enough steam to power the three engines in real life this was a failed experiment.

 

[K4driver]

you and your Girlfriend are splitting costs? wow that is amazing, just like the locomotive.

 

[Spawn_of_Chaos97]

Holy wow. I also looked at their "DCS" system...gotta get me one of those too!

 

[Klinger]

you and your Girlfriend are splitting costs? wow that is amazing, just like the locomotive.

Lets say I'm one hell of a lucky guy....of course I will pay her back the $220 eventually.....but she is working right now...and I'm not so she offered

 

[AndreaLuigi]

http://www.mthhotrains.com/newsdetail.asp?artid=307#

Thought you guys might like to see this. They're making an HO version of their Triplex locomotive!

I know I'll be getting one!

May I be boring?
No, I don't like such a kind of modelling. I'm looking for the Virginian Triplex and I was wondering if I could finally find it, but havin' the Erie model repainted into the Virginian 700 is not exactlly what I am looking for.
The 700 was a 2-8-8-4, not a minor difference.
And the gap between locomotive and tender...

I hope Broadway will do something like it next.

 

[Spawn_of_Chaos97]

You mean 2-8-8-8-4 don't you Luigi?

 

[Tokkyu40]

May I be boring?

...And the gap between locomotive and tender...

I hope Broadway will do something like it next.

At that price, they have to go around curves to keep the customers happy. People with wider curves can shorten the drawbar.
The girlfriend is a real keeper.

Claude

 

[lornyk5]

I'm a huge triplex fan, commissioning the only one for trainz, and I just designed a new HO layout with this loco in mind, but it will be sometime before my wife let's me get it.

I have limited space in my new renovated play room, so I'm planing a corner layout design with plexyglass around it to keep out the little one's from tipping the trains.

Lorin

 

[Klinger]

fine by me. my clubs corners area 22" and 24". both our inside and outside track has both size corners.

Ill take that little difference, not the end of the world. Kind of pissed there is no smoke unit in the rear exhaust stack, but again, not the end of the world

 

[bendorsey]

Hi Ya'lll:

In the early 60's one of the Japanese brass loco makers produced a HO scale triplex. Friend of mine won one as a door prize at the Florida NMRA convention. Took him 3 weeks to dissassemble, clean, paint, and re-assemble it. About a gazillion little parts, lol.

I have a picture of an O scale triplex (unfortuinatley not mine).

Ben

 

[CasyJ]

Hi Ya'lll:

In the early 60's one of the Japanese brass loco makers produced a HO scale triplex. Friend of mine won one as a door prize at the Florida NMRA convention. Took him 3 weeks to dissassemble, clean, paint, and re-assemble it. About a gazillion little parts, lol.

I have a picture of an O scale triplex (unfortuinatley not mine).

Ben

I really miss my HO's. :'(

 

[Klinger]

Ive seen the O scale one on youtube, it has the smoke unit in the rear that I badly want.

Good sound too