To that end, they should also make the Tenders in both coal, and oil, for us
folks who model roads with two names, the last one ending in Pacific (the
ocean, not the locomotive type).
Bill Insane Diego
--- On Sun, 7/27/08, Richard Karnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Richard Karnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: {S-Scale List} Light & Heavy Mikes and Pacifics
To: "S-Scale" <[email protected]>
Date: Sunday, July 27, 2008, 10:57 AM
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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