{"id":418,"date":"2011-06-27T01:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T01:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=418"},"modified":"2021-06-22T14:02:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T14:02:44","slug":"not-the-typical-cab-unit-a-vintage-curiosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"Not the Typical Cab Unit, a Vintage Curiosity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is an oddball little American OO model that someone took some effort to build, a freelanced F or E unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Schorr sold an F-3 and Davis produced an E-7 in American OO. But this model is scratchbuilt. From the side it on first glace looks like an F unit but then look at those portholes and the six wheel trucks! I think the idea of the builder was actually to make a shorty, slant nose E-unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or perhaps it is a variation on the very early (1937) EMC TA locomotive<\/a>. It looks more like the TA than any other prototype I see but it had four wheel trucks instead of six.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Looking at the top the roof the details are minimal but don\u2019t feature the fans seen on F units but instead a set of stacks. On an early E unit there would be two sets, this one only however has one set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The body is clearly made of a heavy brass stock but the roof looks to be wood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finishing it out, we have a bottom view. The drive is clearly scratchbuilt and note only the outer four sets of wheels are geared. The sideframes look like they are based on maybe Nason tender trucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These photos are from Dick Kuehnemund; thanks to him for sharing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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UPDATE: A very similar model of a freelanced version of a FT locomotive may be seen in an article in the April, 1954 issue of RMC;<\/em> that model was operating on the layout of George Jones, and my guess is the above model is also by Jones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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