Nice artwork! I wonder what the model looks like. And what's with the little lines all over the nose? Are they on the model? If not, how accurate is the drawing?
The drive is undoubtedly what Oscalers are calling the "Chinese Slot-Car" drive which has upset many old-line Oscalers. After Weaver's good start, following the uniform scale practice in all scales of a center-mounted motor shaft-driving the trucks which lasted up into the Atlas SW8/9, O scale went to the much smaller motor vertically mounted to each truck and geared for toy speeds, and put two of them in every locomotive. The reason is probably economies of production -- uniform, mass-produced power trucks which will fit any locomotive, avoiding several assembly steps and the need for different shaft components. I just hope, for your sake, that nobody gets that bright idea for HO -- although I'm sure it's been considered.
It's all moot anyway. At 24% of my monthly income, any unit is way out of my league, even if the did have Erie. Which they don't.
Randy Brown
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> > Atlas has announced O scale F units in the Lackawanna
> > freight scheme. Road numbers 605A,B,C, 606A,B,C, 655B and
> > 656B. Artwork is on the Atlas website. Powered units have 2
> > motors, I'm assuming they are vertical.
> > Jamie Evans
> > ELHS 3087
>
>
> Wow, they look nice! But aren't they missing the small yellow
> roadnumbers in the black band at the bottom of the unit,
> located at the
> rear of the unit?
>
> - Paul
You COULD provide the link:
http://www.atlaso.com/f-unit.htm
SGL
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