All --
To be serious for a moment (unlike my last post re "enuff Mikes") -- Whether
Brothers Rouse, McCarthy, and/or King do their own things or get together, the
USRA Mikes and Pacifics are great choices. Perhaps the most famous
Southeastern locomotive was the Southern PS-4 Pacific, which was essentially a
USRA heavy Pacific/heavy Mike superstructure atop a USRA light Pacific chassis.
One of these still lives in the Smithsonian Institution in DC.
For everyone else, mix-and-match USRA light/heavy chassis and superstructures,
with suitable road-specific detail parts, should help satisfy the needs of a
major portion of steam-era modelers. USRA locos and post-WWI copies seemed to
be everywhere up to the end of steam.
I think for such a venture to "work" today, both the chassis and the basic
superstructure would need to be fully fabricated by the vendor(s); only the
road-specific detail parts should be "loose" in the kit, easily attachable with
CA glue. I don't think there is enough $$ to be made in craftsman loco kits
these days.
Dick Karnes, President and CEO
New York, Westchester & Boston Railroad
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