Obviously Vic was/is over-educated, wanting to allude to the city in Italy (as
in in Shakespeare's Duke of Mantua)
rather than local argot. I have experienced something of the local dialect, my
first wife having grown up in Summit
(her family having been in New Jersey since around 1670, although they did not
share the accent Bill identifies).
John Armstrong can doubtless provide chapter and verse, since he has been in
model railroading since Hector was
a pup, but Mantua started before WWII with an 0-4-0 they called the Busy B with
brass stamped parts and die-cast
ones, went on to produce a camelback version based on Reading prototype, I
think (may have been CNJ), and a
RDG 4-4-2 (large firebox was useful for concealing the motor) that was not
re-issued after production resumed
following WWII. Even their freight cars were die cast and brass with printed
paper wrappers to be applied. A few
years back I picked up a couple of their passenger cars purely for nostalgia's
sake--for some reason they chose
a Bangor and Aroostook open-end prototype that no one else seems to have ever
offered in any scale.
Perhaps some chemist or chemical engineer on the list can provide an expert
answer, but my understanding is that
the molecules change under heat and the process is not entirely
reversible--something about the polymers?--so
that too much recycling results in imperfect integration of them. I do know
over the years I've come across plastic
parts that were either lumpy or unusually brittle.
Jace Kahn
General Manager
Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co.
> When discussing trains I can at times easily tell when someone does not live
> around here. This became obvious to me years ago when talking to former S
> Scaler and lifelong New Yorker Vic Rosemen. Besides Mantua Metals,(what it
> was called before Tyco) Mantua is also a town that is 2 towns away from me
> (about 6 miles). Around here there has never EVER been a "T" in Mantua. It
> is pronounced "MAN chu wa". Vic was always "Man TU a". The first time I
> heard it I had to ask him what that was! (:->)
>
>
>
> My friend's father that worked at Tyco and obviously my tour guide had some
> rather old Mantua Metals trains. These had loop couplers instead of the horn
> hook and some were possibly sheet metal? It has been about 37 years since I
> saw them.
>
>
>
> In reference to Jace's comment on recycling, at that same plotter factory
> they did injection molding. The tree, sprues or whatever leftovers you want
> to call then went into a grinder machine. There was a percentage by weight
> of what previously used material you could recycle (20% sticks in my mind
> but I could be wrong) Further I don't recall what the consequences were if
> you exceeded the percentage. But for sure you had to use mostly new plastic
> pellets for whatever reason.
> Bill Lane
>
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