I'm sure the Mather will be just another stock number on a list like everything else on Ron's web site. A shame really. A great hindrance to the scale. If only Walthers would carry them.
Ed Kozlowsky Sanford, Maine --- On Mon, 7/11/11, Thomas Baker <[email protected]> wrote: From: Thomas Baker <[email protected]> Subject: RE: {S-Scale List} Re: Old Sac report To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, July 11, 2011, 1:09 PM What's that? A Mather box car? Now that will be something to look forward to. Bud Rindfleisch and I had recently discussed how we might fashion one from scratch. Now we won't have to. Tom ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Brian Jackson [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 11:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: Old Sac report +1 although I counted five S layouts--totally out of proportion to our numbers. I thought S put on a hell of a good show. The guys from Boise were really a great bunch to talk to and were having a lot of fun showing off their layout. The NASG clinics were merged with the NMRA's. Again, we were represented far beyond our numbers, so kudos to all the guys who conducted them. The layout tour was great. Ed L.'s layout is in a high stage of completion and features some spectacular scenary and scratch-built structures. The Harper Valley, while small, has a large loco roster, all of which ran well and had been expertly painted. It too features many scratch-built structures. Arden's UP layout is, like the UP itself, ginormous. The trip down via Amtrak and BART was flawless. Unfortunately, the AC on the bus began dying by the time we got to Arden's layout. Fortunately, Dan and Claude offered to drive me and my father the rest of the way back to Sacramento in AC luxury. The only real disappointment with the convention was the S Scale "Vendor Hall/ Swap Meet," which was more like a small bedroom:) Only five vendors or so. For the first time, I left the NASG convention without spending a dime on trains! Needless to say, my family was stunned. Des Plaines was also showing their Mather '40 box. Ron sez he'll offer it in kit form with decals for four roads. It looked really good, and I'd just as soon have it in kit form rather than factory P &L. Ed L. passed around test shots of the new convention gondola, which will be a one-piece casting. It looked good although the test shot exhibited some warping, which Ed sez will be taken care of by production time. The dreadnaught ends (inside and out) looked particularly fine. The tour of Espee's old backshops was one of the best shop tours I've ever been on. That may have been due to the fact that the shops are extremely historic (right up there with Juniata). One of the buildings dates from 1868, the only sturucture left from when the Transcontinental railroad was being built. All of the beams are made out of redwood. All in all, a memorable convention. ------------------------------------ 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/
