Jim, You are certainly right about those engines pulling the paint off the walls! The Berkshire my Dad mentioned in an earlier post weighs a ton and can run at TGV speeds! I grabbed the coupler on the tender one day trying to hold it back and it straightened the trip pin out! I'm quite certain it would cause cause an injury if it were to strike a body part not to mention the severe damage to the layout in a derailment! Of modeling note: I re-gauged the wheels to the NASG standards on this beast years back and messed up the quartering on it being new to steam locomotive repair, I didn't understand what happened at the time. It has wobbled down the track ever since that day. The lesson has been learned and I have since re-quartered a sickly American Models 4-8-4 purchased off e-bay to run very smooth logging several miles since the repairs entertaining my future little S-gaugers. Nothing like 6 pounds of S-Scale Steel sailing into an eye level super-elevated curve at mach 1 to get the attention of children and most adults! Danny Click
________________________________ From: raisinone <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2012 4:51 PM Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: NP Q --- In [email protected], "mhrywest" <mhry19@...> wrote: > > Chris, > I have a "sister" engine here in the form of a NP Pacific built by John > Kromhout. <skip> Thanks Chris for bringing back these old memories. > > Ken Zieska > Hi Ken: Thanks to you and Chris for bringing back memories! John built an NYC H10 Mike for me back in the early 1980's from an SSL&S 2-8-2 "kit". He even scratch-built the tender. The locomotive sounded a bit rough but it would pull paint off the wall. The NYC H10's were (are!) my all time favorite steam locomotives – so now you know why River Raisin Models built them in brass 15 years later! John was innovative for his time and a great conversationalist – I always enjoyed chatting with him and regret I only visited his layout once – for the famous flying RDC event! The H10 was eventually sold to Rollie Mercier, I think for about what it cost me. Never knew what happened to it after that, but John definitely introduced me to the world of Super Glue! Jim Kindraka
