Model Train Journal

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Reading-7890-O ... 3601975965

If he corrected the decimal point, maybe.

Brass? Perchance.

Center rail pickups, loco AND tender. Not sure why that Lionel-ish drawbar is screwed to the tender.
Scale driver flanges, maybe the remains of lead truck.
Hand reverse lever on red fibre block in cab.
With that pickup assembly under the loco, can't even tell what kind of gearbox.
Any idea what it started life as?

Description says:
"Reading 7890 O gauge Atlantic 4-4-2 steam locomotive and tender. Powered, brass construction, and more."

More WHAT?

C-6? Not quite.

IMP = good sand dome. Rest is scrap. Opinion.

The red fibre and hand reverse smacked of IMP.

Couldn't see enough of the frame to confirm under that Lionel-looking slider plate between drivers.

Forty bucks to play with it. Delivered.

Don't know what he's smoking to get $400.

Are you guys trying to tell us you DON'T want to "Take a ride on the Reading". Mr Pennybags would be appalled.

Nope. Not Reading.

I have two - a G1 and a very small Gem Camelback. Might lay in a T1 someday.

bob turner wrote:I have two - a G1 and a very small Gem Camelback. Might lay in a T1 someday.

Closest I have is these 225E's...Based on the New Haven I-4 Class Pacific.

ScaleCraft wrote:Center rail pickups, loco AND tender. Not sure why that Lionel-ish drawbar is screwed to the tender.
Scale driver flanges, maybe the remains of lead truck.
Hand reverse lever on red fibre block in cab.
With that pickup assembly under the loco, can't even tell what kind of gearbox.
Any idea what it started life as?

A better photo of the underside might help to answer - IMP; don't think so or if so much modified.