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From: JGG KahnSr
. . . . . . As to the Enhornings, I can't begin to conjecture why they are
rare on the secondhand market . . . . . . . . . .
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Maybe because none were made to begin with.
When I got into S as a hobby the Herald had lots of advertisements for
Enhornings' diesels. They were going to make EMD F7 A & B locos, and a
GP40. Many gallons of ink were poured into discussions of what might be
going on with that company, and if they would every deliver a product. The
story was that the Enhornings, an older man & his father, were from Chicago
originally and had got the idea to make desk-top models for the EMD company
of LaGrange IL to distribute to potential customers. They then got the idea
to also power them and sell them to modellers, since they would be 1/64
scale.
They were then located near Traverse City Michigan, and, it being within
driving distance, I went to see them one day. They actually let me in and
sold me some unpainted shells and some odds & ends for the drive unit.
Apparently they didn't believe in buying supplies "off the shelf." John
told me they were going to make their own rare-earth magnet motors. I could
be wrong, but I don't think a complete RTR painted & deocrated loco ever
came out from them. Eventually we just forgot about them.
John Beveridge - Cascade Models or something like that - (here's another one
for the S historians) made a drive unit kit for people like me who had
managed to secure shells. I put an A and B drive unit together, powered
both from two motors in the B unit via the Multi-Drive system. A custom
painter friend painted them NYC with HO decals, said he had never seen such
plactic before - extremely hard to find a paint that would adhere. The nose
of the A unit can be seen on the cover of the Nov/Dec 1978 S Gaugian. Back
on page 8 there's a picture of George Cummings, John Armstrong, & myself
when we were young, good-looking guys, but that's another story.
Years later somebody (Wabash?) got the dies and reran the shells without the
hump and dimples, and Omnicon sold a drive-unit consisting mostly of NWSL
parts. Tom Lennon painted the shells. Getting back to the original
question, those must be findable today.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
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