Dave and Bob, If I remember correctly Tomalco's name was derived from the TOM A Linholm COmpany.
As an interesting note, once when I was at Jack Troxell's house in Houston, I saw some flat injection pieces for an S scale standard gauge SP wooden caboose kit that Tom Lindholm was working on. Jack had one partially assembled. Tom apparently had some kind of injection molding gizmo attached to his drill press to make the pieces. It had limited size range. Probably the reason he could make TT parts easily. Other may know more of this story. Kinda makes you wonder how many S scale parts/pieces have been worked on through the years and never made it to the market. (And where the molds may be.) For instance I have a 63" piece of extruded aluminum for S scale Pullman-Standard passenger cars just waiting for windows and doors to be cut out and cut to final length. I bought it from Walt Danylak's estate on eBay. Someone told me that the Enhornings' had a couple of pallets of these which were to be used to make their passenger cars that were in their catalog but never make it to market. Billy On Nov 22, 2010, at 10:39 AM, David Engle wrote: > Same here, except it was Lind. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Bob Werre > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 10:05 AM > Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Sn3 1/2+ Tomalco > > It's my understanding that Tomalco was started here in Houston by a > fellow by the name of Tom A. Lingholm. I think he was involved in TT > besides Sn--a double martyr. He was before my time so I can't add any > details about what he actually produced. > > Bob Werre > BobWphoto.com > > On 11/21/10 9:36 PM, Pieter Roos wrote: > > > > Aside from Tomalco, I recall articles in the old Herald on S narrow > > gauge using the old Mantua/Tyco 4-6-0 model. This locomotive was > > patterned after Sierra RR #3 (and first issued lettered C&NFW for the > > line in the old Petticoat Junction TV series). The model is about 20% > > oversize for HO, so it works as a starting point for an S narrow gauge > > model. The AHM/IHC 4-4-0 V&T engines Geno/Reno/Inyo are also oversize > > for HO. I think Harold Minkwitz had a page on his site about using > > these engines in S. He posts occasionally on this list some maybe he > > can comment. > > > > Pieter E. Roos > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [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/
