and he notes -
You may have Nord confused with Nixon Models. Nord (aka Stinson) only
made the two locomotives (a 2-8-0 and 2-8-2) and exited the business
in the 50s. SuperScale had a couple of diesel switchers, one soft
metal cast Alco and an EMD 600 (or 1000) HP brass model and of course
there was Miller's Alco S2. Dayton had their behemoth cast bronze F
units and (among their trolley kits) offered a Whitcomb switcher and
- lest we forget, there was Enhorning's 'hump back' F9 units.
There was no USRA 4-6-2 kit available in the 50s and wouldn't be
until the one offered by Claud Wade's S Scale Loco and Supply in the
60s. The only other steam available in the 40s was a Midgage (Willis
Stewart) PRR K5 kit using AF and scale parts and two kits (an 0-6-0
and 4-6-0) offered by S-Pikes Equipment Co - both of these were
former Cleveland Models kits.
I'm not sure when Bert Carpenter started Rex Models. I believe it was
in the mid fifties with the Dockside 0-4-0 and later the Suburban
2-4-4. The line continued after Bert's death under Howard Phillips
and John Sudimak. BTW, Howard and Charlie Beedle made an attempt to
revive Nord back in the 60s but nothing ever came of it. I know they
had some epoxy castings made and wonder what became of them...
In the late 40s and through the 50s Ben Nixon (Nimco) parleyed
drivers and scale wheels made by Culp Brothers into several
conversion kits for AF engines. This may be what you used to convert
the AF Hudson.
Ben was the 'Heimburger' of the 50s (y' might say) buying up defunct
lines and parts and producing some of his own. His catalog was the
'bible' of the scale in that era. LeRoy Vavrineck continued the line
for a while after Ben's death and what was left went to Al Hall in St
Albans, Vt. when he quit.
Raleigh in chilly Maine
At 09:56 PM 8/26/2008, Trains wrote:
>To:
>Bob McCarthy
>THE SUPPLY CAR, LLC and everyone else interested in "Nord"
>
>Nord was one of the premieir S scale manufactures in 40's, 50's and
>early 60's The made a variety of kits for S steam loco's, and I
>believe also had some deisel switcher kits. Most notably I remember
>a 2-8-0, USRA style 4-6-2 Pacific and 2-8-2 Mikado. They also put
>out several kits for refitting AF engines to run on scale drivers
>and wheels...they were great and even made an AF engine look better
>with see through spoked drivers of various diameters. I had a
>hudsonn that I converted with an Nord kit and a rectifier...boy did
>that engine go and hauled a ton. We ran it on the Houston S Gaugers
>layout in my hobby shop/ S manufacturing/ S scale layout home in
>Houston. It looked really great pulling a bunch of heavyweight
>varnish, blowing smoke and chugging along...could enve slip wheels
>on start up if you wanted to...sound andlooked great.
>
>I have an original 50's Nord catalog, however it's already packed up
>for my anticipated move and relocation to an S layout space with
>home attatched.
>
>Peter Loeb, one of the forgotten original co-creators of the Houston
>S Gaugers....now in Oregon.
>
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