Author Topic: Old West Train (Read 7977 times)

Yankeepedlar01 · « **on:** February 08, 2009, 09:37:39 PM »

I went to Stafford Model Rail Show yesterday and got an Old West Train for £14.00. I am quite chuffed with that! Its a tad too small perhaps for 28mm to the purist, but it will do for me ~

There are some close up shots in the C19th Gallery on my site ~
www.Freewebs.com/talesfromghq
Its a boxed 'Desktop Trainset', made in China, and comes with an oval of 7' of track. It fits and runs smoothly on OO guage track from Hornby I've found.
If anyone has a set themselves and would like the track, send me a pm and we'll do some sort of deal.
David

white knight · « **Reply #1 on:** February 08, 2009, 10:04:31 PM »

Does it show the manufacturer anywhere?

Looks just the thing I'm looking for to go with my Lucky Luke town. Nicely understated.

Yankeepedlar01 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 09, 2009, 07:45:11 AM »

The box is headlined GGG ~ Games Gadgets Gizmos ~ Power Playing for Big Kids. Its 'Made in China' and called "Desktop Trainset". Thye box is black and features a large picture of the engine and tender.

I guess you'd find it or similar in Gadget Shops specialising in 'executuive toys' and the like.
Hope this helps.
David

Geudens · « **Reply #3 on:** February 09, 2009, 09:40:10 AM »

Quote from: Yankeepedlar01 on February 09, 2009, 07:45:11 AM

The box is headlined GGG ~ Games Gadgets Gizmos ~ Power Playing for Big Kids. Its 'Made in China' and called "Desktop Trainset". Thye box is black and features a large picture of the engine and tender.
I guess you'd find it or similar in Gadget Shops specialising in 'executuive toys' and the like.
Hope this helps.
David

Seems you've been extremely lucky; look here:

http://www.find-me-a-gift.co.uk/gifts-for-men/work-gift/desktop-train-set.html

Can't win'm all...

Rudi

Yankeepedlar01 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 09, 2009, 01:58:23 PM »

Quote from: Geudens on February 09, 2009, 09:40:10 AM

Quote from: Yankeepedlar01 on February 09, 2009, 07:45:11 AM
The box is headlined GGG ~ Games Gadgets Gizmos ~ Power Playing for Big Kids. Its 'Made in China' and called "Desktop Trainset". Thye box is black and features a large picture of the engine and tender.
I guess you'd find it or similar in Gadget Shops specialising in 'executuive toys' and the like.
Hope this helps.
David

Seems you've been extremely lucky; look here:

http://www.find-me-a-gift.co.uk/gifts-for-men/work-gift/desktop-train-set.html

Can't win'm all...

Rudi

Oh Yes! That's a good buy then!

white knight · « **Reply #5 on:** March 12, 2009, 08:42:06 AM »

Quote from: Geudens on February 09, 2009, 09:40:10 AM

Can't win'm all...

Sure I can:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110358277425

£12.51 including shipping to Belgium.

MuleSkinner · « **Reply #6 on:** March 12, 2009, 10:04:41 AM »

Doc Twilight · « **Reply #7 on:** March 12, 2009, 07:58:02 PM »

Great find, both of you! This might work well as a narrow gauge railway in East Africa too..

-Doc

Hitman · « **Reply #8 on:** March 13, 2009, 01:20:33 PM »

I picked up two Christmas trains that run on batteries around an oval track last year during the boxing week sale for $6 each. I wanted two passenger cars as each one came with an engine, tender, 1 passenger car and a caboose, so I have an extra engine and caboose, which I will now paint up as a damaged one using some modifications like they did in The Train Robbers starring John Wayne and Ann Margaret. I painted the rest of the train and tracks up this past summer, and they look great!! I had to repaint the engine, tender, cars and caboose. My 14 year old son had another one of these same trains from several years ago when he was little, and so he designed and built a cattle car to put onto the base of his passenger car. It clipped on and could be removed easily, so he designed the cattle bos car to lift on and off so he still has his own train available to use at Christmas time around the tree. Quite a little genius I must say!!

Hitman · « **Reply #9 on:** March 14, 2009, 11:42:28 PM »

I was forced into some spring cleaning today and I came across the box that my train was in. I got it at Walmart. The regular list price was $12.96 and I paid $6.00 Canadian for it during Boxing Week last year.

Hawkeye · « **Reply #10 on:** March 16, 2009, 02:47:23 AM »

Hitman,

I think that must be the Fast Lane Western Express that you have. There are differing views on them as regards scale, but I have to say that I think the engines and carriages are just about perfect in terms of scale. You can clip off the top parts - the bits that make them passengers cars or tankers or whatever, and build what you want on top out of plasticard, which is great! It sounds like what you've been up to with yours. Any pictures? I'll be working on mine soon (over the summer, at the latest), and I'd be interested in seeing what other people do with theirs. I have two sets, and I'm really looking forward to the possibilities.

Hawkeye

Hitman · « **Reply #11 on:** March 16, 2009, 06:40:04 PM »

Hawkeye;
Here are some photos of the before and after shots of the train from Walmart...Wintersville Express. I also am including some individual shots of the train as well.

This is the before shot of the train before it was painted:
[img][P1060464.JPG/img]

This is the after shot of the train once it was painted:
[img][P1060465.JPG/img]

This is an up-close shot of the engine with some Artizan, Foundry and Blue Moon figures for size comparison.
[img][P1060476.JPG/img]

This is an up-close shot of the passenger car with some figures for size comparison.
[img][P1060484.JPG/img]

This is an up-close shot of the hand-made cattle car by my son with some figures for size comparison.
[img][P1060486.JPG/img]

This is an up-close shot of the caboose with some figures for size comparison.
[img][P1060485.JPG/img]

Regards,
Hitman

Hitman · « **Reply #12 on:** March 16, 2009, 06:41:15 PM »

Well...it looks like my post didn`t work!! HELP!!!! Those are the images,I just don`t know how to use the post image button!! Sorry.

Galman · « **Reply #13 on:** March 16, 2009, 08:06:32 PM »

I was having a hard time with it too. I just highlighted the image text then dragged it to the MSG block and it seemed to work, though alittle to big for my taste, will try to figure out how to scale em down abit.

myincubliss · « **Reply #14 on:** March 16, 2009, 10:39:51 PM »

On the images not working front, you seem to have missed the "[" from "[/img]" at the end.

[Edited multiple times to repair my own mistakes] - Also, you need to host the picture on the internet (somewhere like photobucket or flickr) and have the address (found by right-clicking and selecting 'Properties') of that pic inbetween the [img] [ /img]

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