I had a slight involvement in finding suitable cars for the NMRA car
projects. Ben Pearlman, NMRA official, local HS owner, former video
producer, and friend orginated the project, while Loren Neufelt did much
of the actual leg work on the projects. Loren would call me to try and
find a close match to some of the HO and 0 versions. This was also the
time when PRS had trouble actually fulfilling the NMRA's orders. I
purchased a few of the fictional cars and some 'stand ins'---both
NMRA/NASG and convention cars. Finally sold most of them to make room
with one exception--the Frank Titman hopper. However, someplace on the
layout is a Cleveland convention gondola that I believe was close to the
prototype, the Evans CNW from Chicago convention and a couple of UP (map
herald PRS cars) money raising cars. Hopefully the 'running late'
Duluth convention car will be a great model and the upcoming hopper will
be likewise. So I think, I can safely say that convention cars and NASG
projects have been more successful than the NMRA 'famous name' cars just
like Don Thompson indicated.
Bob Werre
BobWphoto.com
>
>
>
> 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.
>
> >
>
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