Dear Bill The Ma&Pa #25 and #26 (of which PFM sold many in HO) were standard BLW products; they sold similar locomotives to a number of roads, especially shortlines who ordered from the catalogue (sort of a Sears wish book operation). Muncel Chang told me several years ago that when the project was under development by PSC a good thirty years ago, he noticed the similarities to the SP C-6 class and he personally assembled all the IHM C-6 versions produced by PSC; the Ma&Pa kit instruction sheet lists the additional parts involved and has a diagram showing locations, but I am not clear whether the C-6 version was ever available as a kit. As noted, I have a stock kit which I assembled twenty years or so ago (I replaced the cab with a scratchbuilt steel one and sold the Kodama brass one to a friend); it will be the last steam locomotive in my collection to go if I ever start disposing of any--apart from my entirely scratchbuilt On2 B&SR #7. A few years ago I also picked up 80-85% of another from an Ohio estate resold by Bill Davis; no tender (there was a Kemtron Wabash mogul tank in the box but I didn't want that and resold it), but when the mood strikes me I intend to put what is there back together and change around a few more details to represent a generic eastern shortline 2-8-0. I wouldn't mind having something similar in S scale. Jace Kahn General Manager Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co.
> To: [email protected] > From: [email protected] > Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 17:53:52 -0400 > Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Ma&Pa 2-8-0 Espee 2-8-0? > > Hi Bill, > Was the Ma & Pa # 25 the older 2-8-0 that the SP had one of that was very > similar? I think it was 2nd SP # 2500 and spent most of it's life in Oregon. > Unfortunately it was scrapped in 1927. > > The 3rd # 2500 was scrapped in 1948 and was also a one engine class, C-32, > but I think it was a little small for the Ma & Pa style. > > Without seeing a photo of the Ma & Pa engine and not having my notes on > this any longer it is hard to tell if the above is correct. Maybe our > resident > expert on SP power remembers...........As a side note the engine I am > referring to was not and never did run on the Ma & Pa, it was absorbed when > other > railroads became subsidiaries of the SP. > > Take care, > Bill McClung > Colorado > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
