Thank you, Bill ! Have a GREAT day!
John Degnan
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From: "Bill Fraley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Hi,
>
> I was cleaning out boxes yesterday and found three "Delaware Valley" Ore
> Hoppers
> that we built back in the sixties.
>
> They had the Kadee 5 couplers on them and as I have converted my equipment
> over
> to the Kadee 802, I compared the two and I will admit that the Kadee 5's are
> half the size of the 802. The Ore Cars also had very old brass scale wheels
> on
> them, what difference to what we are running today.
>
> John Bortz was offering the kit for the big price of $3.50 each, or a 3 in 1
> Ore
> Car special @ $8.50, back then.
> (The reason why the Delaware Valley club [now, the Lehigh Valley] gave up
> producing the car, was that they got tired of soldering all those hoppers
> together, so John took it over on his own.)
>
> Anyway, I now can see why the S scale modelers are putting up a fuss about
> someone producing a true S scale couplers.
>
> "S"ee Ya,
> Bill Fraley
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