A Special ebay find.......HUH?

[Zox]

Who ever thought Oscar and Piker were a good idea? What a waste of time. Stuff like that makes me want to yarmit.

Um, yeah. Because just like the cover of MR used to say, "Model Railroading is Deadly Serious"...

[Packer]

That's just messed up...

[Nato]

   I guess nobody on this list execpt myself keeps up with Tinplate O trains. If you all did you would be fimilar with The Beep. Actually there are two locomotives made, one a shortened GP7/9 on a single power truck available in a varity of prototype paint schemes,really cute critters, then an F unit usuing same drive train was released,again various prototype paint schemes. The same manufacturer (can't recall the name) produces a reduced leingth Budd RDC car ,this one has four wheel trucks. Then there is the Infamous "Egg Liner" don't know if they are from the same maker. The Egg Liner is two round (boat tail) ends from fluted sided obs cars grafted to gether with a power truck underneath,again in many proto paint schemes. Very Very cute. Now I will have to dig out old back issues of Classic Toy Trains to find the reviews.                 Nate Goodman (Nato).

[rswinnerton]

Model Railroading is deadly serious to some, but maybe not to the likes of Model Railroader. I mean, come on, MR is (unfortunately) a laughable publication to most of us on here. Bucket-o-trees anyone?

[reinhardtjh]

Model Railroading is deadly serious to some, but maybe not to the likes of Model Railroader. I mean, come on, MR is (unfortunately) a laughable publication to most of us on here. Bucket-o-trees anyone?

Wow...  Harsh.

[mmyers]

Manfred (DCC Train) must have entirely too much time on his hands.

[chuck geiger]

Did Tom weather the B unit with rust?

[delamaize]

I love the random DOT Placards on the units.
"Dagngerous" Well I guess bad kit-bashing can be dangerous  ;D
"Non Flammable gas" ok? sure.
"Danger when exposed to water" again, I guess something as badly kit-bashed as this could be dangerous no mater what the state!  ;D

as a Hazmat Tech, I can say that if something like this came up in the real word, we would probally just stand back and say WTF, this don't make since!

[Packer]

"Dagngerous" Well I guess bad kit-bashing can be dangerous  ;D
"Non Flammable gas" ok? sure.
"Danger when exposed to water" again, I guess something as badly kit-bashed as this could be dangerous no mater what the state!  ;D

Wouldn't Chlorine gas fit all of those?

[Iain]

Chlorine power?

[delamaize]

"Dagngerous" Well I guess bad kit-bashing can be dangerous  ;D
"Non Flammable gas" ok? sure.
"Danger when exposed to water" again, I guess something as badly kit-bashed as this could be dangerous no mater what the state!  ;D

Wouldn't Chlorine gas fit all of those?

Chlorine gas falls under class 2.3, Poisonous Gases. (I think, I am rusty with my Hazmat, haven't done anything with it in a year or so.)

[Iain]

You know, I may go for it just for the mechanisms and the noses.

[Freighttrain]

   I guess nobody on this list execpt myself keeps up with Tinplate O trains. If you all did you would be fimilar with The Beep. Actually there are two locomotives made, one a shortened GP7/9 on a single power truck available in a varity of prototype paint schemes,really cute critters, then an F unit usuing same drive train was released,again various prototype paint schemes. The same manufacturer (can't recall the name) produces a reduced leingth Budd RDC car ,this one has four wheel trucks. Then there is the Infamous "Egg Liner" don't know if they are from the same maker. The Egg Liner is two round (boat tail) ends from fluted sided obs cars grafted to gether with a power truck underneath,again in many proto paint schemes. Very Very cute. Now I will have to dig out old back issues of Classic Toy Trains to find the reviews.                 Nate Goodman (Nato).

OH I love the Beeps.I have built a few funky things back in my day of if it is dirt cheap I am gonna buy it.I used to glue the couplers together on little 2 axle AHM/Bachmann/Model power/Etc industrial switchers and run wires between them.Build a F unit with a GP cab.......then found out it was a real deal dang it......also a double ended AHM GP7 or whatever those little high hoods were back in the day.Used a Life Like GP38 cab for the 2nd cab.I always wanted to do a Southern Railway QD80AX.4 4 axle trucks under a stretched frame DD40......and remember long hood forward YIKE!Knew a guy WAY back in the days of Rails Online that did make custom build scale prototypical fantacy models.Would use real world stuff to make fake stuff.He was going to build me a Thermo Nuclear powered locomotive based on the gas turbines UP used but with nuclear cooling towers and cool special effects lighting and smoke/steam generators.What I wouldn't do to go back to those days of "I don't care if it is prototypical,It is fun" days.Never did get the point of the rivet counters.All they do is tick me off with the holyer than thou attitudes if you run a Coors reefer behind a ACL locomotive.

[cv_acr]

http://atsf.railfan.net/beep/

[Ryan87]

Build a F unit with a GP cab.......then found out it was a real deal dang it.....

do pics exist of such an animal? what railway?