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QUOTE (alastairq @ 15 Oct 2007, 18:04) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Just to bring things on further, re steeplecabs.....

So you have finally come out...............anyway there's not a lot wrong with steeple cabs.

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I have seen the "Polly" type locos around at as little as £5.00 with the later S&DJR "7178" fetching a little more. Was it an upgraded chassis?

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QUOTE (DS239 @ 17 Oct 2007, 14:14) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>AFAIK the Triang Steeplecab is a generic design,stretched to fit that X04-powered chassis,many prototypes are actually quite small locos..

Fleischmann have produced a steeple cab in a variety of liveries over the years. I wouldn't think a second hand one would be terribly costly. As an aside I have just checked their web site and can advise that currently the catalogue shows two models: 4300 - class E69 in green (not available) and 4306 rack locomotive in blue and white. (available).

Perhaps this may be of assistance.

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The search was fruitful - I have found said steeplecab - it is a fairly old Fleischmann in the blue and white livery, also managed to find a couple of Viesmann masts. now all I need is an excuse to do something with it.

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QUOTE (alastairq @ 18 Oct 2007, 18:36) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>or is this sacrilege, and should I forkout for a nellie chassis?......(I have several blue and yellow 0-4-0 diesel chassis witht the slot car motor.....am I right in thinking...as noted in posts above, that these are a direct replacement for the nellie chassis?

Personally I would splash out on a correct chassis, however I am not sure if some other diesel chssis will fit - i have a feeling they were a different mounting.

On a more or less relasted thought didn't the NCB run an overhead electric system somewhere in the North-East?

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QUOTE (John Webb @ 19 Oct 2007, 14:20) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>There was an overhead/thirdrail system on Tyneside; one loco is preserved by the NRM......from the electrified surburban lines, so coal was one of the goods carried. Could this have been the one you were thinking of?

Hi John,

I don't think so, I was aware of the system you mention but had forgotten about it. The one I am thinking about was, I am sure, totally self contained. I have a vague recollection of someone describing building a model of one of the locos in MR in the last two years.

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QUOTE (Ravenser @ 19 Oct 2007, 16:52) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I think the system BRITHO is recalling was the Hardon system on the south bank of the Tyne, which lasted into the late 80s , with small elderly steeplecab Bo-Bo locos running off overhead. It ran north /south and crossed (under) the Tyne and Wear Metro a stop or two before S.Shields.

That's the one thanks for that Ravenser I can sleep peacefully tonight.

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