Jim,
I wanted to check my old magazines last night but other things took that
time. However, American Scale Models might be the name of the revised
Nord line and the 4-6-0 engine. There was a company that made
professional photo lab equipment in Minneapolis called Nord. It was
located on Stinston Blvd. I believe the original model railroad stuff
was called Nord Stinston. One would assume they were one and the same,
but I have no evidence of that other than the names themselves.
Sometime after the original engines were discontinued, they offered the
brass detail parts seperately and there was talk about putting a better
motor in the complete kits and starting up again--never happened. I
recall the parts were not near as good as the SSL&S parts that were
coming out.
There are a few photos of a very nicely rebuilt and refined 2-8-2 in the
S Gaugian and on the cover of one of Heimberger's softcover booklets
that I made many years ago. The engine was owned by Fred Little who put
a great deal of effort into that engine including PFM sound. One of his
children received the engine after Fred's passing.
Bob Werre
BobWphoto.com
raisinone wrote:
> A 4-6-0 kit was produced in the early 80's by a gentleman in
> Minnesota, he has since passed away. Not sure if that is what you
> are referring to? The kit had a brass boiler and cab, minimal
> detail and epoxy steam chest, fire box and tender. I replaced the
> tender with an SSL&S USRA, but the rest (and a lot of SSL&S details)
> built up to a very credible ten wheeler, I think I used the NYC F12g
> as the prototype.
>
> I really enjoyed that little engine, but alas the plastic driver
> centers eventually loosened on the steel axles and it would no
> longer run. It sits in a box patiently waiting for new drivers....
>
> Perhaps Ken Z. remembers the gentleman who made it. After he died,
> the company did indeed go to Jan Lorenzen (Locomotive Workshop), but
> I don't recall Jan ever making salable kits again.
>
> Jim K.
> >
> > >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
> >
>
>
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