Locobox?

Spule 4 · Post by **Spule 4** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 4:42 am

Anone here own a Locobox loco?

Rheidol specifically......

http://www.pps-steam-models.co.uk/lbx/rheidol.htm

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:37 am

I want a Locobox Isabel... so does South-Trethevy... looks a better alternative to a Mamod! Hope they bring them back soon!

Spule 4 · Post by **Spule 4** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 12:20 pm

mhlr wrote:I want a Locobox Isabel... so does South-Trethevy... looks a better alternative to a Mamod! Hope they bring them back soon!

According to my last e-mail with Alan, there are no current plans for these locos to be re-issued.

I am sure the prices of locos made in "The East" is the factor here, so maybe this will change with the current economic situation there?

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:02 pm

My friend, ptlrcecil, owns a locobox garrat engine. He's called it black combe, after a nearby extinc volcano, like the prototypes.

MuzTrem · Post by **MuzTrem** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 5:03 pm

I have mused over the Locobox Rheidol several times, as it's a protoype I very much like. But it isn't a very deatiled model, so she might look a little out of place beside Russell and my non-steam locos, and in any case the price is a bit more than I can afford at the moment. If I found a second-hand one at a good price, perhaps I'd go for it...then again, I think I'd want to see one running and have a go at driving it first.

SillyBilly · Post by **SillyBilly** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 5:51 pm

It's a nice machine, but I don't feel that another waggler is for me.

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:42 pm

Yeah, I like the locobox Rheidol too. When I began taking garden railways seriously, and began saving up money, I was planning to buy that engine, but then I scaled down to a PPS Janet, and finally I brought a mamod set off ebay.

laalratty · Post by **laalratty** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:47 pm

The Rheidol is a great looking engine, just a pitty about the waggling cylinders on the model. The only locobox engine i've seen running is ptlrcecil dad's garratt, a fantastic engine

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Spule 4 · Post by **Spule 4** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:27 pm

Matt wrote:Yeah, I like the locobox Rheidol too. When I began taking garden railways seriously, and began saving up money, I was planning to buy that engine, but then I scaled down to a PPS Janet, and finally I brought a mamod set off ebay.

Funny, as I am leaning more to a Janet myself, due to the SIZE factor. A shame that more of the common and less expensive 16mm steam is not to scale....

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