I never had any problem with Sunset when Mort Mann owned it; the locomotives were not quite PSC or Overland quality, but then they also didn't cost as much as those did. I still own Sunset USRA 0-6-0, PRR I1, ATSF 2-8-0, 70-tonner, four or five cabooses, and an Erie Russian. I once owned two or three more of the Russians (Erie and Frisco, never WM or MP) but couldn't justify keeping more than the one (I owned a PFM Frisco when I was in HO). I had to rework the cab windows, replace the Westinghouse air pump with a New York (happily made by Kemtron originally), a stock feature of Erie steam, add footboards to the tender rear beam, and a few other minor detail changes, but it is a good, adequately-detailed model. I agree it would have made an excellent choice for S scale steam.
Jace Kahn General Manager Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co. > To: [email protected] > From: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:35:19 -0500 > Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Re: "S" scale SP Pacific project from 3rd > Rail/Sunset > > 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. > > [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/
