Hi Bill. A neat job on an interesting bit of history.
I too am in possession of an old Super Scale kit...an O-27 Canadian National 40' 6" box car kit. It is of flat tin plate construction via folded tabs...much like the old O scale Athearn cars or the HO Pacific Pike cars. The hi rail O gauge trucks, which also require assembly, are of white metal construction with aluminum wheels. The superstructure is S scale of course with painted and lithographed sides. The kit is in excellent condition in it's original box and packing, along with instructions. If figure it has to be about 60 years old. The original price on the box is 4 dollars! I paid only 15 dollars for it, thinking it would be a lark to put it together and run it with my Marx O-27 train under the Christmas tree. But when I saw the remarkable condition of this unassembled survivor, it just seemed wrong to do so. I have made 3 offers, one of them in person, to donate this kit to the National Toy Train Museum in Strasburg but have not had the courtesy of a reply. So list members what would you do...keep trying to donate it to a proper museum, partially assemble it as some sort of historic display, or just put it together and put it on a shelf in the train room, to be run behind at Christmas behind my Marx 2-4-2? Cheers Jim Martin ________________________________ ......not many here have ever seen this S Bobber Caboose before. It is an OLD School kit made by Super Scale. I would like to find out the approximate time period for it. I bought it as a basket case on eBay to replace my On30 caboose (which I still have & is still for sale!) to go with my “Howie” Shay as a logging train. It is etched COPPER. The frame is very soft metal. This is also the first time wheels have stayed with the model throughout the project – blast booth & all - because I did not want to risk prying them out! Thank You, Bill Lane .
