and he notes - No, Nord just went the same way as Perma-Bilt, Strafford, Dayton, CD and a host of one shot manufacturers that thought S Gauge was gonna replace 0 or H0 in popularity. Most went to dealers such as Ben Nixon or Al Hall and a lot languished on hobby shop shelves for decades.
S-Pikes' locos did have motors but sales were negligible. Claud Wade (or many of his craftsman friends) made his own masters for his products. If he had any Nord stuff it was in his own collection. Raleigh in Chilleigh Maineigh... At 09:34 PM 10/10/2011, trainsjeep88 wrote: > > >Thanks very much. Did the Nord end up as part of the locomotives >produced later at maybe St. Louis? Don't remember the S Pikes locos. >Did they have motor etc? Assume not many sold/produced? Stan > >--- In <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>[email protected], >Rollain Mercier <raleigh15@...> wrote: > > > > and he notes - > > > > Nord produced only two locomotives - a 2-8-0 and a 2-8-2. The Mikado > > was essentially the Consolidation with an extended frame, trailer > > truck and longer boiler. The tenders were the same. > > > > S-Pikes Equipment Co. produced a 4-6-0 and an 0-6-0 switcher using a > > wooden boiler ala CD. The only Pacific offered was the Midgage PRR > > K-5. It would take a lot of finagling to swap the K-5 boiler for > another AF. > > > > Raleigh in Cozeigh Maineigh... > > > > [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/
