Evening everyone, Here’s another oldie that doesn’t work. It’s a switcher that I recall from the 60’s. It is stamped Yugoslavia in small letters on the bottom but I can’t find any other identifying marks. It’s in Reading Railroad colors and I believe it was a 2 part set, the other being some type of F unit in the same colors. That one is long gone but I’ve managed to keep this one. It hasn’t run in years and I’m working on it. The motor is pretty basic and turns a worm gear that meshes to a drive gear on one axle. Nothing fancy. Any ideas on who made or imported these things? Thanks. Rick H.
It looks really like this locomotive from LIMA http://www.rivarossi-memory.it/LIMA/Locomotive/Germania/MDT_Rossa_DB/Lima_MDT_Rossa_DB.htm that had been painted in a moltitude of colours and sold all over the world. Here some US models http://www.rivarossi-memory.it/LIMA/Locomotive/USA/Lima_Locomotive_USA.htm If I am not mistaken these are still sold even by Hornby (which acquired LIMA and Rivarossi production rights). Most of these foud their way to starter sets, and were licenced to (or simply copied by) different manufactures like Mehanoteknica in former Yugoslavia, now Slovenia, so yours is one of the latter, produced before the 1990 when Yugoslavia broke up.
I had the same one back in the 1970s. Very basic drive. IIRC, it was AHM. At the time a few manufacturers made their products in Yugoslavia.
