That caboose is still around Jack's layout, but still in an unfinished
state. It's a wooden sheathed SP prototype similar to one made by
Gold Coast Models. What is there is of excellent quality.
Maybe it's time to assemble a museum of these types of products to go
along with the Russ Mobley library. Some kits from Russ himself, plus
TrainStuff%#@&%, Enhorning, Midgage and dozens of others could be a
great thing plus the possibility of a collector book.
Actually since Billy has a lot of this stuff, he would be a great
caretaker of that collection--just kidding Billy!
Bob Werre
BobWphoto.com
> 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
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