I was able to purchase this Great Trains E-7 from Robbie Hanson. I was/still excited about that. Seems to be brand new. Some of the glued items had fallen off due to age, I’m sure. I glued on some 1/8" spacers to enable the trucks to clear the bottom of the body.

Engine is complete, every thing is there. On the inside there is a Great Trains logo stamped in the roof, or cast I guess. It uses three axle NWSL trucks. I plan to paint the side frames silver and lube the gears soon. Art Knapp had the observation car that I got today. Still on the plastic wheels here and will get an 820 coupler on it and some weights, car is light and with those huge windows I will get some people inside. Amber lens on the front lights and old type bulbs.

If anyone has another to sell, let me know. Like to have a B unit also and a few more cars, prefer MTH cars in this livery(if they made it) or will take Great Trains shorties I guess.

Really happy with this, thanks Robbie!

Jerry,

How well do those NWSL trucks perform?

They seem fine, I’ve had some two axle ones that I had trouble with in the past, but these seem fine-so far. Have not run it much yet. Want to lube them. If you take one apart note how the motor is situated, have to get it back in just right for the block to go back together. I read someplace they are shutting down.

Yeah they are closing down, it might be worth considering buying a truck for a spare… I did not know they had 3 axle trucks.

Greg

Great find, Jerry. A really great find… Congrats… (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)

I wasn’t aware great trains made an E-7, nice find!

Cool Jerry, How long is that engine, looks enormous. The 1:1 I think is 71 feet.

26" long. It is 1/32nd scale. So it seems right on, according to my fading math skills! Wonder why he made the F40 so short? Sure looks weird. Of course the E-7 is longer than the coaches!! May try to make a B unit, a guy I know is talking about it also, maybe if I procrastinate(good at that!) he will do it before me. (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)

Bob Thon(Robert’s Lines) has the Standard Gauge (great Trains) brochure and did pick up a A&B unit years ago that he has displayed in a local museum. He goes back a long way, did the Pioneer Zephyr and lots of Standard Gauge kits/cars/engines, always in metal. Interesting guy. I’m trying to get him to write a book about his company and maybe include his knowledge/pictures of some other obscure small train companies from the 70-80’s that made limited numbers of cars/engines that few know about.

Bob is an interesting guy to chat with. I talked with him over email back and forth for a while last year about what he offered and talked about buying some of his molds to start reproducing some stuff, but couldn’t afford it at the time.

Stan Cedarleaf said:

Great find, Jerry. A really great find… Congrats… (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)

Yep !