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Model Railroading > Plastic Fantastic 4-4-0Date: 09/15/14 15:58 Plastic Fantastic 4-4-0 Author: CPengineer My family rode the Durango & Silverton for the first time in 1981 (I was 6 years old) We stayed at the Durango KOA, which I remember had a large loop of what was probably 7.5" gauge track. My parents purchased this train for me at the KOA giftshop. I've never seen another like, so I don't know the manufacturer (I've always been curious about that) The 4-4-0 is roughly HOn3 scale in size and made out of a very soft plastic; it's stamped "Hong Kong" on the underside. It always bothered me that there was no tender, and the cars were way out of scale (and European). Once I became a model railroader, I planned to paint and mount it on an HO flatcar as a derelict heading for scrap, but I never got around to it. Can anyone supply additional details as to the manufacturer?
   Date: 09/15/14 16:36 Re: Plastic Fantastic 4-4-0 Author: wabash2800 CP, its just a toy not a mainstream model. If the plastic is soft, it's likely a very low volume run that wasn't injection molded but rather molded by hand.
Date: 09/15/14 16:40 Re: Plastic Fantastic 4-4-0 Author: CPengineer I never claimed it was a mainstream model, but stuff like this is usually distributed in mass quantities.
Date: 09/15/14 17:38 Re: Plastic Fantastic 4-4-0 Author: NSDTK What's stamped there in the center of the bottom of the coach?
Date: 09/15/14 18:12 Re: Plastic Fantastic 4-4-0 Author: rrb Haha, thanks for posting this. I got one of these identical little sets when I was a kid. Do you still have the track or any pictures of it too? I still have that semaphore, and actually repainted it silver and have it on the kid's model layout. That's the only piece I didn't lose..lol.
Date: 09/16/14 04:01 Re: Plastic Fantastic 4-4-0 Author: CPengineer "Made in Hong Kong" is what's on the bottom of the coach. And no, I don't have the track anymore. That little train would never stay on the rails!
Date: 09/16/14 05:11 Re: Plastic Fantastic 4-4-0 Author: randgust Oddly enough, it looks exactly in the same proportions as a 1960's "Matchbox" 4-4-0 I've had since childhood. It looks like either the Matchbox one was used as a design reference or a pattern. It's a larger one.
http://www.theauctioncentre.co.uk/catalog/210/291.jpg Date: 09/16/14 07:03 Re: Plastic Fantastic 4-4-0 Author: RichM Exactly what I was thinking. I have that Matchbox locomotive around someplace, I'd strongly suggest the plastic molds were made from it, the proportions look identical!
Rich Date: 09/16/14 16:43 Re: Plastic Fantastic 4-4-0 Author: highgreengraphics A little superdetailing, and that could be quite the model, and you can add your choice of tenders, too! === === = === JLH
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