Tyco Chattanooga 2-8-0

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How would I get a copy of said article?

Bob Welsh

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Subject: Tyco Chattanooga 2-8-0


> Hi Bob;
>
> A G would be out of the question, it is much much smaller than the Tyco
> model.  And it is still large for a W.  It depends on how close you want
to
> get, and how much work you are willing to do.  There have been a couple of
> excellent articles in Mainline Modeler on building steam locomotives from
> plastic a few years back.  One was on building a scale model of a J one
the
> Bachmann Plus mechanism, it showed up about the same time the Spectrum
> version was announced.  A W on Tyco Chattanooga chassis would be a similar
> project.
>
> Nigel F Misso
> nfmisso at mchsi.com
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> > How much effort would be required to modify the inexpensive Tyco
> Chattanooga
> > Choo Choo locomotive into one of the N&W 2-8-0 units, either a G or a W?
I
> > have tried to pull up pictures of these on a N&W photo archive hosted at
> VT
> > but many of the links do not work, including some for the 2-8-0 classes.
I
> > have two of these locos left over from old train sets and would not mind
> > painting them and detailing them to fit N&W prototypes if possible.
> >
> > Bob Welsh
> >
>
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