I don't know what used to be in the Twin Cities, but Scale Model Shop on
Lexington Avenue in St Paul (the best source for scratchbuilder supplies in the
area, sometimes even carries
some non-AF S scale) currently has an O-8 on consignment in the brass case; I
understand it is from the father of the current owner's collection. Could even
be the same one.
Jace Kahn
General Manager
Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co.
> Your discussion about GN steam brings up a vivid memory. Years ago, say in
> the Seventies, I walked into a hobby shop in St. Paul. I was still clinging
> to my Lionel but was unsatisfied with its truncated proportions and its
> fetish for scrawling "Lionel Lines" on so many pieces of equipment. Anyway,
> the hobby shop was somewhere on Lexington Avenue but was not the one that's
> there now. The proprietor had a beautiful brass model in O gauge of Great
> Northern O-8 Mikado.
>
> I had seen those things storming hell bent for election through Wayzata
> eastbound into Minneapolis, a beautiful sight. I was visiting a friend whose
> mother was the head nurse at the small Wyzata Hospital. I recall that the
> windows of the old hospital that faced Highway 12 and the GN tracks
> absolutely rattled. I never saw any other GN steamer live but those O-8s
> hauling the freight through Wayzata, Minnesota.
>
> Tom
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