Rich, I had forgotten about the Dec. what a wonderful engine that
could have been on our slightly tight radii track. A bunch of us got
turned on when we saw it prancing around the Illinois State Museum
during one of the NASG conventions. I wonder if anybody has some of the
offerings that Charlie Sandersfielt listed just before he got into the
"gang of 100". I recall seeing a list of perhaps a dozen steam
engines. I do know that some only had a handful of votes.
bob Werre
>
>
> I remember the Pioneer Zephyr announcement from 3rd Rail. As with this
> time, folks here started talking about the previous Sunset Models
> imports, effectively torpedoing the 3rd Rail PZ before it had a chance.
>
> In spite of the praise O scalers give 3rd Rail, it seems Scott Mann
> will never get past the old Sunset Models reputation with S Scalers.
>
> However, on the other side of the coin, the minimalistic amount of
> advertizing didn't help the PZ or the Pacifics.
>
> Same thing happened with Southwind to a degree. One of Jettie's last
> announcements was for a locomotive very dear to my heart: the Russian
> Decapod, particularly in the Frisco version.
>
> Again, minimal advertizing. It didn't help the in the S Gaugian, in
> order to illustrate the Russian in Western Maryland, They used a photo
> of a different, heavier class of WM 2-10-0 and called it a Russian.
> Wrong. Not even close...
>
> Also not helping, in a Southwind newsletter, a drawing of the
> mechanism was shown, with a drawing of a stretched SP 2-8-0 boiler
> over it. Again, wrong...
>
> Still, I sent in (one heckofa) deposit in hopes to push the Russian
> Decapod project along. Nope. I don't even remember how long I waited
> without ever hearing another peep anywhere about the decapod. Finally,
> I felt compelled to write to Southwind and get my deposit back. (I did
> get it back.)
>
> Now, I'm waiting to see if PBL's KL&L 70 ton standard gauge Shay get
> cancelled. My reservation and deposit's been in since the
> announcement. Were going on two years, now.
>
>
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