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HO Scale Made In Yugoslavia Engine Inland Pacific Locos and rolling stock
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New member 2 posts cbenge35 New member 2 posts
cbenge35

I recently came into possession of this engine but have no idea what it is.  I know there were a couple different brands made in Yugoslavia, but I don't know what this one is.  thanks for the help
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davidellias New member 9 posts
davidellias

Previous Owner probably

Previous Owner probably re-painted it to his own freelanced line.

As for Yugoslavia, Maybe AHM? - http://ho-scaletrains.com/ahm-emd-sd40/
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Thats the first brand that comes to mind when someone says "Made in Yugoslavia".

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cbenge35 New member 2 posts
cbenge35

I didn't even think about

I didn't even think about that, they did a pretty good job on it.  Thank you for the clarification.
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bobby pitts Regular poster 339 posts
bobby pitts

It appears that someone

It appears that someone installed Athearn stanchions and bent the handrails.

Bobby Pitts
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YoHo Prolific poster 2,973 posts
YoHo

Yes, noticed that too.

Yes, noticed that too. typically the handrails on that model aren't as fine.

 

Anyway, made in Yugoslavia means it was made by Mehanotehnika prior to the fall of the Iron Curtin. It was likely imported by AHM, but Bachmann occasionally used them as did Model Power and others.

Once communism fell, the tehnika was dropped and they became just Mehano. And they now say made in Solvenia...which is where they were always made, but no more Yugoslavia.

 

I can't speak to the SD40-2 pictured, but my Mehano diesels have been pretty good. They use all truck pickup and at least on my GP18, all axles driven with a decent (not awesome, but decent) flat can motor driving standard geart towers. The detailing is not the greatest, In particular the open pilots, but the hoods are scale width and you can always add detail parts. I have a GP18 I found in a collection of donations to the club that the previous owner had superdetailed for Rock Island with new pilots, new fans, spark arrestors. It was a dummy, but I'm going to upgrade the handrails and try to power it. 

 
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CarterM999 Regular poster 419 posts
CarterM999

GG-1

 recently came upon a GG-1 from Yugo. Runs good dual engines and now converted to RailPro. no complaints.

 

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Dave.S58 Regular poster 399 posts
Dave.S58

@CarterM999

When posting a picture it works best  set the width to 750 or less so it all shows. If you go back to your original post and select edit, you can right click on the picture and select 'image properties' and change the width to 750

 

 

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railandsail Prolific poster 8,799 posts
railandsail

Solvenia made

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YoHo
 

......Once communism fell, the tehnika was dropped and they became just Mehano. And they now say made in Solvenia...which is where they were always made, but no more Yugoslavia.

 

I can't speak to the SD40-2 pictured, but my Mehano diesels have been pretty good. They use all truck pickup and at least on my GP18, all axles driven with a decent (not awesome, but decent) flat can motor driving standard geart towers. The detailing is not the greatest, In particular the open pilots, but the hoods are scale width and you can always add detail parts. I have a GP18 I found in a collection of donations to the club that the previous owner had superdetailed for Rock Island with new pilots, new fans, spark arrestors. It was a dummy, but I'm going to upgrade the handrails and try to power it.

I have a couple of mountain steam locos and a GG1 that were imported by IHC, and built in Solvenia. They all run really good

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