Was this engine based on a real locomotive.

[jcm@gwr]

1 minute ago, giz said:

I think he means this one:

 

 

 

That's the one! Thanks

[Il Grifone]

16 minutes ago, rockershovel said:

 

Reverting more-or-less to OT, I’ve never seen this in clockwork form, but suddenly there are two on eBay! 

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TRI-ANG-RAILWAYS-CLOCKWORK-MODEL-R254-0-6-0-ST-LOCO-CHASSIS-RARE-LATE-EDITION-/303311889771

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tri-ang-R255-Clockwork-Saddle-Tank-with-Key-And-Oil-Early-Rare-Model/193519154000?hash=item2d0ea3f350:g:mzkAAOSwDSper~X1

 

That's the beast but whether it's worth sixty quid I would doubt.

 

This is the Trix Princess I was waffling about.

 

https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ALeKk02VPayXoztJiVSQZwnJL0YNf2z6CA:1593436342951&source=univ&tbm=isch&q=trix+twin+princess&client=firefox-b-d&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjD-MX5jKfqAhXMiFwKHYmnApEQsAR6BAgIEAE&biw=1296&bih=666

 

and here (from a site we don't mention here  ) is an early Tri-ang one

 

https://www.Hornby.com/us-en/forum/1951-triang-princess-with-plunger-pickups/?p=1

 

Checking a claim it is an inch short (and the rest*), I noticed that the Tri-ang model even has the rear axle right back under the cab like the Trix one.

 

* I won't bore you with my guesstimate, but it looks like nearly two inches if the huge gab between engine and tender is taken into account.

[Steamport Southport]

2 hours ago, jcm@gwr said:

 

Because that's the H0 version, I'm talking about the 0 gauge version!

Check the info in my last post.

 

They did an O Gauge version as well.

 

Got one somewhere.

 

 

 

Jason

[jcm@gwr]

58 minutes ago, Steamport Southport said:

 

They did an O Gauge version as well.

 

Got one somewhere.

 

 

 

Jason

 

Didn't know they scaled that version up, I've only ever seen the type I have (4 of!)

[kevinlms]

5 hours ago, jcm@gwr said:

As this thread has already wandered a bit 'off topic'!

I don't feel too bad about adding another locomotive to the original query.

The 0 gauge* Lima 0-4-0 diesel shunter, which has the motor bogie from

their larger, mainline diesels (UK and continental outline).

Any ideas, possibly continental, considering the lower, rear windows in the

cab, it's underframe suggesting electric or hydraulic transmission and the 

fact it was made by an Italian manufacturer! 

 

*saying 7mm scale could be pushing the realms of reality too much!

It ought to be remembered that these types of models were intended purely for the toy market and so cost came into it.

The cheapest way is to use an existing chassis/power bogie and make a new body to fit. If they found a prototype suitable,  but it needed stretching or compressing to fit, well so be it. The average parent or relatives didn't care, as long as it was cheap for a birthday/Christmas present.