If my shaky memory serves, I think it was Filer and Stowell? Stilwell
developed the Erie passenger equipment with distinctive roofs and framing (not
to be confused,as I once did, with Arthur Stilwell, who was the driving force
for the Orient road).
Jace Kahn
General Manager
Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co.
>
> At our last club meeting we were thumbing through some old Model Railroaders.
> In the November 1977 issue I came across a scratchbuilt Filer and Stillwell
> 0-6-0 logging locomotive built by Reg Bilodeau in S of course. Any one know
> him? Is he still around? The name sounds French. Canadian, eh? I remember
> MR running plans for this locomotive in S, but I would have put it at a later
> date. I also seem to remember the locomotive showing up in MR's 50th
> anniversary contest. Of course Reg could have entered it. Could there be
> two of these? When was MR's 50th anniversary issue? Everything beyond the
> November issue is trusting my now antique memory. Anyone?
> Jamie Bothwell
