Hello All,
We have an opportunity to get a CB&Q live steam locomotive to be produced by the AMS division of Accucraft. It will be the Aeolus, a stainless steel shrouded 4-6-4. Anyone interested please drop me a pm at [email protected] I don’t have a million dollars to get Aster to produce my favoite CB&Q engine, a 4-8-4.sigh!!
Noel
Noel
Is the proposal going to 1:32 or 1:29?
Charles,
It would be in Fred’s hands…any questions ? LOL
Noel
Wotcha going to haul behind 'er?
Just curious, me. Apart from the fact that we would have another classic locomotive model to see running around - always a good thing IMO, no matter which side of the country it comes from - there is the not-small matter of the matching cars…ALWAYS a problem, as I know only to well from my foray into G1 CPR territory.
tac,ig, ken the GFT & The Hootooblaim Boys
tac,
If this had gotten off the ground, matching car were to follow. No interest however, so it is a dead project.
Noel
Noel
Unfortunately, we cannot help bring this about given the scale…good luck with it.
V. sad, Noel. It’s a funny old world out there, eh? With all the preserved locomotives that still run - the SP&S E-1 #700, SF’s #3751 and UP’s FEF, Aster chose the FEF to model this year. Well, actually, Mr Huyler chose it, and Aster agreed to build it. Sadly, like the recent Challenger, it will be something that only the very well-off modeller/collector can afford. Seems that the days of getting something that you’ve set your heart on, for not too much money, are but a distant memory.
Personally, I was a great supporter of the now-dead-in-the-water AristoCraft intention to build an affordable Northern from the West Coast, and was going to be ecstatic at the thought that it might be 700, a loco very close to my heart for a number of reasons. In fact, even #3751 would have done, at a pinch, and I would have rebuilt the tender to suit. One gentleman over on the Aristocraft forum actually built a whole raft of conversions [eight, I think?] and very fine they were - but as he pointed out, when I approached him with the aim of bying one, he only did them for his friends, not for pesky furriners.
I guess that in the end, it all comes down to $$$$$, or rather, lack of them - no doubt the Aster FEF will fly out of the dealers at around $8-10K, so unless I sell my daughter into slavery [and whoever buys her will have to be good at wheelchair pushing], I’ll have to content myself admiring the one that will belong to a friend who can afford it without even noticing the cost.
Best
tac, ig, ken the GFT & The #700 Appreciation Society Boys
Charles,
If you can twist some arms and get it in the correct scale of 1:32 that would be great. You know Fred…Mr. 1:29. Sad he made the NYC engine in that scale. Using 1:32 we could use the CP 4-6-4 chasis and boiler and tender trucks…all are spot on as best I can tell. Would reduce production costs and hopefully the price.
Noel
Tac, if he can get it without noticing the cost that much, perhaps you could sneek his away and tell him he forgot to order one? Or get him to buy one for you so you stop getting slobber all over his toys?