--- In [email protected], "Ed" <Loizeaux@...> wrote:
>
> > > Love those NYC J-1s!
>
> I wonder what it would take to have River Raisin Models import a J-1? Might
> not be so hard to sell them since the J-3 was a l-o-n-g time ago. <snip>
> Start beating the drums for a new J-1. That's how stuff gets done in S
> scale. Cheers...Ed L.
>
If you are interested in seeing River Raisin build something, contact them!
Dan might be looking for ideas after the USRA 0-6-0.
Speaking strictly for myself (not RRM!), I have often wanted to see an NYC J1e
Hudson, but only one built to the detail and operating standards of current RRM
steam locomotive models. But let's not mince words... The cost of such a
model could easily range up from River Raisin's currently available Southern
Pacific MT-4 & 5's. In the last several years, with the notable exception of
the SP modelers, there just hasn't been the kind of critical mass in S scale to
support that level of quality in single road steam projects. We have
fragmented, sub divided and re-sub divided to such a degree, it is extremely
difficult to find consensus.
That's not a complaint, just my view of how S scale has evolved, or de-volved
<G>
I'd still love to have an NYC J1 Hudson. I'd likely find a way to buy
two and I'd happily work on the research and track down drawings and photos for
the builder. But in reality, I'd say the chances of seeing this locomotive in
S scale are about the same as seeing an equal quality ES44AC something else I
would crave.
But who knows... unlike some others, I have no problem being proved wrong!
Jim Kindraka
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