I acquired a 4-piece train a few years ago. It is a Lima model of the NYC Rapid Transit, painted in orange and silver. On the side there is the lettering ALCO 118. Runs on DC power.
I have never seen this before, I have no idea how old or rare it is (from the motor, wheels, etc. I would guess the 1970's or 1980's.
If anyone could provide some information I would be very thankful. Sorry for my asking in English, my German is ok but not that great.
I could not figure out how to upload a jpg here, so I created a bilder galerie called Mystery Train. There you see some pictures of the Lima train, Rapid Transit, NYC Alco 118. Any info about this train would be appreciated (when produced by LIMA, etc.=
The wrong name Rapid Trasit is only seen on one of the wagens; at another wagon the name is correctly written. Such a failure is (hardly) never seen on a production model.
The set looks very similar as a repainted version of the SAR Suburban set with cat.nrs. 9128 (motor wagon), 9254 (suburban 1st class), 9255 (suburban 3rd class), 9256 (dummy motor wagon). See Martin Kohler's database.