--- In [email protected], Thomas Baker <bak...@...> wrote:
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> Tom,
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> Thanks for the information. When I traveled from Minnesota or later, from
> Iowa, to points east of Chicago, as I did in the summers of 1967 and 1968, I
> always had time between trains and headed for the bar, i.e., the All-Nation
> Hobby Shop. The shop had Enhorning A and B units painted in SP passenger
> colors and two other sets of A + B units in two other paint schemes I can't
> remember now. The units also had, if I recall correctly, trucks, and I
> assumed they were powered. Perhaps they were not. Interesting bit of
> history.
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> Tom
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Tom,
I might have told you about Enhorning in one of our phone conversations,
but for the benefit of others, here is my story. After waiting like many others
for several years with paid for orders for an A&B F, and 2 GP-40's, I decided
to drive from western NY state via Canada, to Ludington Mi. to visit the
Enhornings. I found them through the local Post Office and called them up. They
said, sure, stop in. Well their shop was well equipped but in a state of
disarray. I saw both the heavy dies for the F's and believe it or not, the
GP-40's. Also saw long aluminum extrusions for passenger cars. I managed to get
quite a few shells (all A's only, had no B's)and hand picked only the straight
ones....no "dromedarys"! Also got some passenger trucks which eventually
crumbled into several pieces....poor pot metal. Also picked up many sets of
decals to come close to my original order amount.
For the detail fanatics, these very early plastic moldings were nicely
detailed, fine rivet detail, etc. The drawbacks.....E-8 style flush
numberboards, along with E-8 sandfiller hatches (wrong locations for F
units)The EMD nose was not perfect but not too shabby either. The horizontal
grills made these phase IV F-3's due to the two lengthwise dynamic brake slots
on the roof. The roof fans were crude, more like buttons and the rear of the
shell "V"'d out like the peaked roof overhang.
Way before S Helper came out with theirs, I did a couple units by milling
off the button fans and putting on Details West HO 48" fans, filing out the
dynamic brake slots adding fine screen, changing the sand filler hatches with
resin castings that Gale Hall sent me and cut out the V'd back and flattened
the resultant section....didn't work out too well and later replaced with backs
from AM scrap FP-7 shells. Have 2 brass end walls from River Raisin for the
next ones in the shop.
I used 1 AM shortened FP drive and the others are dummys. All in all they
look pretty darn good but a lot of work. Still need to make the unique EMD F
handrails then hopefully paint 'em up for the LVRR. The LV fortunately had
phase IV F-3's.
I was even able to chuck up the plastic horn blobs that Enhorning provided
into a piece of tubing in a benchtop drill and turned them down into better
looking horns and drilled out the bell to boot.
Enhorning did have separate castings for the angled numberboards which I
also added. They were clear castings so the shell could be drilled out for
lighting the boards.
I have since picked up the B's I needed from Wabash Valley.
Bud Rindfleisch
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