Vance,
My German is not too good but it looks like the Big Boy shown is electric, not live steam, although I did hear that Accucraft was planning a live steam version. That price was probably for the electric version. I was following that Ebay auction on the Big Boy kit and couldn't believe the price it sold for.
Pat
Covington, LA
Timber & Tallow Branch RR
Subject: Accucraft prototypes at Intl Toy Fair
Manfried Meliset, publisher of GartenBahn, sent a note with some photos of new items from the International Toy Fair in N=FCrnberg, Germany.
He saw prototypes of Accucraft's live steam K-28 (I had heard this was coming, but hadn't seen details) and Big Boy(!). Maybe I saw the Big Boy before and immediately forgot it because it's out of my area of interest, but when I read the suggested price it stuck this time: would you believe 4850 Euro? (That's US$6300 at today's rate.) We just saw an unbuilt Aster Big Boy go for $17500 on eBay; this guy could have save 2/3 of that and a LOT of building time if he could have waited until next year...
regards, -vance-
Vance Bass Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Small-scale live steam resources: http://www.nmia.com/~vrbass
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Message Number: 6 Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:40:11 +0100 From: Bert & Edmunda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Accucraft prototypes at Intl Toy Fair
Vance,
The Accucraft model will probably be to little hands on. There is always something to do to Aster models that is if the wind doesn't blow the fire out! The Accucraft K-27 is almost boring, fire her up and let her run for the next 50 minutes. (almost like an electric model) The boiler on a Big Boy must be vast.
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Message Number: 7 Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:55:02 +0100 From: Bert & Edmunda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Gartenbahn photos
To All
Sneak preview.
The photos from the German magazine "Gartenbahn" can be seen at the following address. Sorry still in German text The English is still not finished. www.gartenbahn.de/pdf/PMD_Beilg_SM05_V2.pdf This has been OK ed by the publisher Manfred R. Meliset
Bert
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