Yes, I remember seeing advertisements for Jan Lorenzen's S-scale products. He was going to produce an EMD E-7. I have no idea whether that ever came about. Apparently, he also produced an EMD switcher kit, and of course we all recall his flat-cast resin box car kits. I have assembled one greatly modified and have another DS car which I will transform into a SSW DS box like the one Ted Culotta described in RMC as one of the essential freight cars. Not much comes of taking those plastic kits as they came.
Tom ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of JGG KahnSr [[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 10:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: {S-Scale List} LWS Despite working on some O scale again (building three Wisconsin Central/DMK single-sheathed boxcar kits simultaneously), a friend (also in O scale traction) sent me one of Jan Lorenzen's EMD switcher kits that he'd had around forever. Having built some of the Locomotive Workshop "kits" (known to O scale modelers as "the next closest thing to scratchbuilding") before and returned a few to the sellers after getting a good look at them, I was pleasantly surprised at how good the etchings and forming was. I may build it just for the challenge, although since I own three SHS SW-8/9's I hardly need it. I think it is Bob Nicholson who has one or more in operation; I'm curious how many more are out there. During the long dry spell, they were about the only thing available for diesel switchers other than the Miller Alco, and I suspect S scalers back then were glad to get them. The kit also confirmed my suspicion that the white-metal sideframes that came with my second Miller with Cascade drive were LWS, the previous one having the nice lost-wax sprung ones. Now if I could only locate one of the LWS white-metal 44-tonners... Jace Kahn General Manager Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
