Peter,
I have your drivers and they on another Hudson! I put them on a newer
split frame Hudson that I owned and combined that with another Hudson I
found later. Your Hudson was combined with a SSLS converstion kit and
sold to someone in Calif.
Raleigh,
Nord (revisited) did make an exopy type 4-6-0 engine, that I think, was
advertised in the S Gaugian for a short while. There is one here in
Houston still in kit form. It seems to me that the Loco Workshop later
picked up the project, made some mods to it... and that where my memory
ends. I can verify that it isn't much of a kit.
Bob Werre
BobWphoto.com
raleigh wrote:
> 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.
> 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:
>
> >
> >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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> >
> >
>
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