This brings to mind some old R&R/Religious song about everything having
it's time and purpose (Seager/Collins perhaps). Back when OMI brought
in the Light Mike they were around $500 and a good engine. Later RR
introduced the NYC version at double that price at least. The later SP
versions of the Mike were around 2K each. Maybe Fred's concept would
fit in today's world better than 6-8 years ago!
I now think somebody could wrangle together a conversion kit, buy the
Lionel engine, (sell the excess parts to parts dealers), and then
actually build the engine plus take a few hundred in profit for under
the 2K price. This might mean finding a mail-order Korean bride to help
but it could be done!
Bob Werre
PhotoTraxx
--- In [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>,
Pieter Roos <pieter_roos@...> wrote:
> Fred Rouse of SSL&S looked at the AF 2-8-2 and even built a scale
>version for himself (as best I recall) but decided the >resulting
"kit" would be too difficult to construct and too >expensive; since
Lionel would not sell parts only the full >locomotive. Are you going
to buy a $400 locomotive, gut everything >but the shell and add a $300
scale kit (made up numbers, I don't >know what he felt he would need
to charge).
>
If the toy train locos are nice enough guys will start to modify them
for scale use. It happens all the time in O scale which is even harder
because the locos are three rail and need the drivers insulated .
Since flyer is 2 rail the conversion should be a lot easier, maybe as
simple as turning it upside down and re-shaping the flanges with a
dremel while running the loco :>) ....DaveBranum
