I confess, that I don't know much about American HiRail, but what I've
seen looked good enough considering the way they were made--we had
talked about the expanding molds a few months ago. I've always been
told the gentlemen who makes up the engines was a commercial pilot and
only sold his products at one show. So I've never had the privilege of
meeting him.
However, if the drive is a Railmaster, American Models, Amerian HiRail,
SHS/MTH, NWSL or something cobbled together it's seems like only a minor
part of the problem. The main shell and even more importantly, the
truck sideframes seem to be the major issue in getting something like
this going. After that our various casting guys will be able to make
the smaller parts if they see the need. Obviously if this was done in
an organized manner it hence would become a complete engine.
Bob Werre
--- In [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>, Bob
Werre <bob@...> wrote:
>
> When it comes to creating a new shells for small runs we can look with
> pride to the recent GE & Fairbanks Morse diesels and several others
from
> American Hi-Rail. And, by gosh, they have drives too.
>
>
> Bob Werre
> PhotoTraxx
I believe you mean American Models, Bob. And I would agree that
producing shells to fit their drives could probably be a vailable
business.
American HiRail is either no longer in business, or is taking a very
long sabatical. AHR offered "blown up" resin HO shells, usually
designed to fit on Flyer chassis, but could be fitted with a scale
drive. AHR did make his own power truck, either HiRail or Scale, but
the one's I have in a pair of their RDC's don't have a lot of pulling
power.
Rich G(ajnak)
