"Looking for cheap N scale train" Topic
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| GROSSMAN | 08 Mar 2019 3:02 p.m. PST |
Looking for Civil War era N scale static train, does not have to run.
Any suggestions? |
 Yellow Admiral  | 08 Mar 2019 4:16 p.m. PST |
Shapeways to the rescue…? link Years ago when I tried to do this, I only found one ACW era engine available commercially in N scale, an extremely expensive custom brass model. Mass production scale steam engines only seem to go back to the early 1900s. Good luck. I hope to see pictures of what you come up with. I might revisit this topic myself if things have improved. - Ix |
| NCC1717 | 08 Mar 2019 5:48 p.m. PST |
The Bachmann 4-4-0 has been in production for many years. Used ones (running poorly or not at all) used to be common at train shows in New England. At one point I had so many I was chopping them up for kit-bashing projects. auction |
 War Artisan  | 08 Mar 2019 10:18 p.m. PST |
You might try scrounging around in toy departments. Sometimes you get lucky. Some years ago (long enough that I unfortunately do not remember the name of the manufacturer) I picked up a train in the toy aisle of a Walmart for $4.95 USD. It's not very authentically ACW and I had to add the stack and the cowcatcher, but it works as a terrain piece and, at the price, it's hard to complain.
The boxcar was scratchbuilt from a Civil War photograph. 10mm infantry and supply wagon for scale. |
| GROSSMAN | 09 Mar 2019 2:20 p.m. PST |
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| EJNashIII | 10 Apr 2019 7:43 p.m. PST |
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looks at some new terrain products, which use space age technology!
