He did - man is that a long time ago. I have an A & B. The side etchings are pretty good. The cab is a joke. The late, great Barney Daehler actually built one of these for a friend & did his usual masterful job. I forget who got it. Even a genius could only make a mediochre model out of one of these. I intended to make two B units out of these. Probably never will take the time. Arden G. Lodi CA
--- In [email protected], Thomas Baker <bakert@...> wrote: > > Yes, I remember seeing advertisements for Jan Lorenzen's S-scale products. > He was going to produce an EMD E-7. I have no idea whether that ever came > about. Apparently, he also produced an EMD switcher kit, and of course we > all recall his flat-cast resin box car kits. I have assembled one greatly > modified and have another DS car which I will transform into a SSW DS box > like the one Ted Culotta described in RMC as one of the essential freight > cars. Not much comes of taking those plastic kits as they came. > > Tom > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of JGG > KahnSr [jacekahn@...] > Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 10:58 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: {S-Scale List} LWS > > Despite working on some O scale again (building three Wisconsin Central/DMK > single-sheathed boxcar kits simultaneously), a friend (also > in O scale traction) sent me one of Jan Lorenzen's EMD switcher kits that > he'd had around forever. Having built some of the Locomotive > Workshop "kits" (known to O scale modelers as "the next closest thing to > scratchbuilding") before and returned a few to the sellers after > getting a good look at them, I was pleasantly surprised at how good the > etchings and forming was. I may build it just for the challenge, > although since I own three SHS SW-8/9's I hardly need it. > I think it is Bob Nicholson who has one or more in operation; I'm curious how > many more are out there. During the long dry spell, they > were about the only thing available for diesel switchers other than the > Miller Alco, and I suspect S scalers back then were glad to get > them. The kit also confirmed my suspicion that the white-metal sideframes > that came with my second Miller with Cascade drive were > LWS, the previous one having the nice lost-wax sprung ones. > > Now if I could only locate one of the LWS white-metal 44-tonners... > > Jace Kahn > > General Manager > Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co. > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > ------------------------------------ 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/
