I think almost the first "famous" railroad project was the Gorre and Daphetid,
and those did sell out in almost all the scales
offered, which led the NMRA Board to approve further projects. Although most
of the names were HO (reflecting the
predominant scale in model railroading for some years), a few were O scale,
such as Frank Ellison's Delta Lines and (as
I recall) Al Kalmbach's, and Bob Hegge's Crooked Mountain. So far as I know,
there were no N scale (are there any famous
historical N scale railroads?--probably too recent a scale) nor any S scale;
probably relatively few model railroaders outside
of S scale would even recognize Frank Titman's Delaware and Western, and I'm
not sure any other S scale railroads come
even close to that. The irony is that the NMRA took such a bath on most of the
cars that the last run, of John Allen Bull-Line
stock cars, was offered only in HO and N, and that might actually have sold at
least a few in other scales.
I never was interested in cutesy road names (who else remembers the "Phartz and
Howe Baked Beans" lettering?) or much of
anything obviously non-prototypical, other than my own choice of road name (for
which I claim some care in determining), so
I was no good prospect for the idea in the first place. But then I don't wear
a vest with cloth patches, either...
Jace Kahn
General Manager
Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co.
> We were more than happy to make the few S scale cars for the NMRA.
> I would explain to the NMRA project manager, that non-prototype cars
> did not always do that well as S scale convention cars. We were able
> to lower the minimums as general manager of our builde was also an
> NMRA member. But expecting S gaugers to purchase NMRA S scale cars of
> famous HO railroads was a stretch. I think this is why they had extra
> cars from these very small runs, that would be the main reason.
> Don
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