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Regauged 12" Cagney for sale
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 11:07 pm
by Glenn Brooks
Couple of really exquisite looking 12" gauge loco's popped up on DLS tonight. Located in Minnesota, apparently. One is an extremely rare Cagney, D model, regauged to 12" ga track. The other is a nicely detailed 4-4-2 Atlantic. Wish I had the bucks to make an offer. But alas, no mas and no room left in the shop! Still, magnificent looking 12" ga motive power.
Here are the photos.
- Nice looking, and rare Cagney
- 4-4-2 Atlantic
- Early style Ottaway
- Ottaway smoke box view
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Holly smokes he has another one for sale - 2 Ottaway's and a Cagney, plus the Atlantic. Whoever the owner is, they won the race for the most toys!
- Ottaway in finery!
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- Glenn
Re: Regauged 12" Cagney for sale
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 2:34 pm
by jcbrock
I used to live 3 miles from that railroad, owned by one of the nicest guys you could ever meet. The Atlantic was in Frederic Shaw's "Little Railways of the World".
Re: Regauged 12" Cagney for sale
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 3:00 pm
by ALCOSTEAM
Where at in the book ?
Re: Regauged 12" Cagney for sale
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 3:31 pm
by jcbrock
My copy is buried a little too deep to find at the moment, but there are a few pages devoted to a relatively scale SP Atlantic built iirc by a printer in Santa Rosa, Ca. That's the one. I don't know the story of how it got to Minnesota. Several (if not all) of the locos were owned and operated by Al O'Neil, and the present owner purchased them after Al's passing.
Re: Regauged 12" Cagney for sale
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 5:23 pm
by Glenn Brooks
ALCOSTEAM wrote:Where at in the book ?
The owner quotes the page on the DLS for sale site. Page 250 something. Sure would like to see these engines up close.
-G
Re: Regauged 12" Cagney for sale
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2017 12:51 am
by Harlock
In the Shaw book, the builder of the atlantic is listed as Robert H. Butler of Santa Rosa, CA. His profession is listed as an engraver. Apparently there is a quite a set of drawings that go with it, which he of course made engravings and the resulting prints from.
It's 2" to the foot and has been broad-gauged a bit to arrive at 12". It's a replica of a 3000 series. Apparently he never was able to run it himself as he became ill before he was able to build any track.
Re: Regauged 12" Cagney for sale
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 2:59 pm
by steaminfo
Hi, my name is Doug Bailey and I'm the webmaster of
www.steamlocomotive.info. Our site does list 12" gauge locomotives, and I would be grateful for a source of information that would allow us to add these three locomotives to our website and database. Hopefully, someone can help?
Re: Regauged 12" Cagney for sale
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 6:17 pm
by Glenn Brooks
Doug,
you may be able to contact the owner through his ad on DiscoverLiveSteam.
Glenn