{"id":450,"date":"2011-08-09T20:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T19:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/?p=450"},"modified":"2026-05-30T08:45:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T12:45:43","slug":"new-to-me-78-scale-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/new-to-me-78-scale-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"New (to me) 7\/8&#8243; Scale Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/20111220_BJC1844-600x397.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/20111220_BJC1844-600x397.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/20111220_BJC1844-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/20111220_BJC1844-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/20111220_BJC1844-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/20111220_BJC1844.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">7\/8&#8243; Scale Live Steam Engine &#8211; Oakshaak<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was fortunate this weekend to surf over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.7-8ths.info\/\">SE Lounge<\/a> website and caught sight of a &#8220;for sale&#8221; announcement for a 7\/8&#8243; scale live steam locomotive and some rolling stock. The seller was Canadian and so I made contact and made arrangements to purchase it all. The photo above shows the engine, a&nbsp;Simply 7\/8ths Baldrig kit on a Accucraft Eldrig chassis. The previous owner named it &#8220;Oakshaak&#8221; after&nbsp;the name used by the ancient Mi&#8217;kmaq for the&nbsp;New Brunswick town&nbsp;he lives in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I also got three slate wagons as part of the deal:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stationstudios\/6026406960\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6150\/6026406960_1e1e5e6092.jpg\" alt=\"Marchlyn Slate Wagons\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was fortunate this weekend to surf over to the SE Lounge website and caught sight of a &#8220;for sale&#8221; announcement for a 7\/8&#8243; scale live steam locomotive and some rolling stock. The seller was&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/new-to-me-78-scale-engine\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marchlyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1999,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}