"How do you get square driver tires on round wheels"? I will be 91 in 2 weeks. Bought my first real loco S kit from Carpenter after fiddling with CD kits from their first month Unfortunately Carpenter had put the wrong loco frame in the kit . I found out after hours of filing.. That sort of delayed my earliest S Guaging for a while.
I later had some scratch built Erie locos built by Karl Parshall of Columbus. I always wondered where they went after I went into the service. I was told one went to a DR in Seattle. Has anyone ever seen them? Where did the Culp dies go? John Armstrong ----- Original Message ----- From: Rusty To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2013 9:12 AM Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: Suburban and Catalogs It's kind of like the Culp Bros. that weren't brothers and they lived in different cities. One set did some molds and the other ones did some die casting. My Rex suburban has steel driver tires. My Rex suburban also came with out the port hole window, if fact no window there at all. My suburban also had the famous Culp Bros Andrews style trucks with those neat rib backed die cast wheels. There is an S scale that lives in San Mateo Ca. He is 85 He got started in S in about 1940. He use to build CD model airplanes but got interested in S when he visited some hobby shop that had those old CD S scale models He ran around with some guy named Ben Carpenter after WWII This Ben guy was REX Scale versions of PUTT 0-6-0's that I have had the misfortune of working on have square driver tires, no taper at all James Rustermier
