Hiya! Back from the radio silence! <3

This is one of the oldest, if not the oldest engine I have in terms of ownership. I’ve had this since a very young age, and It holds nostalgia like no other.

The first time I saw this engine was when my grandad was visiting and we had a 3-rail O gauge circuit set up on the dining room table. The image of this very engine sitting on the road still lives in my head rent free.

It’s a very rare model from what I understand. Lima produced a battery operated version of their Fowler 4F model in tank engine form a long time ago, complete with a yellow coal bunker which has long since vanished. A boxed example was on the Hattons Directory but has seemed to have dissapeared from their records. Painted black and numbered 97 I think.

This one has had It’s electrics stripped and was repaired at one point way back when. Now It’s just a free rolling engine. I did try to mod this into a 0-6-2 at one point but eventually went against the project. The only relic of that left is the lamp irons on the front.

Now that the 0-6-2 no.37 has become part of my niche O gauge collection, I wanna try give my old girl some TLC. I’ve started making a new bunker out of a Fowler tender I have spare, and the hope is to make this still into a 0-6-0 with conventional tanks, and make it into something new but without deviating from the original toy design.

-Michelle <3

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