If someone is exploring the idea of a commercial kit, I shall reiterate my
conviction that it
should be based on a specific prototype (please, please, NOT the Reading which
is so
ubiquitous in HO and O scales). I can offer two class I's that lasted into the
early diesel
era and examples of which are still extant: the B&O (ex B&S) preserved in the
B&O museum
(photos and dimensional diagrams in the several references on B&O cabooses) and
the
DL&W (preserved as Morristown and Erie in New Jersey). Empire Midland imported
the
latter in both HO and O scales as an early Korean product--not quite so nice as
later
manufacture but good enough I still have mine and intend to use it.
I'd buy a good kit for either in S scale (if I scratchbuild the ex-B&S, it is
going to be in
O scale and I have only so much time left for projects). I'd think about a PRR
ND (which
was often later converted to two-truck--the Quality Craft kit offered in both
HO and O scale
could be built as either), but it is a little too PRR and also rather large for
a bobber.
Jace Kahn
General Manager
Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co.
> The way it sounds, I may have the only S Scale BOBBER in our group. It was
> scratch built by Frank Titman for his then Delaware and Western model
> railroad many years ago. I treasure this model and it's not for sale.
> Bill (Fraley)
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