I finally went over the kit with a fine-tooth comb and found a few small things
missing: one corner skirt/stepwell side, one corner step, as well as any
instruction sheet,
not that LWS instructions were ever much more than a photocopy of a prototype
diagram. I THINK I can figure out how the frame is supposed to go, although I
am less
certain of the side skirting. As the saying goes, "The next closest thing to
scratchbuilding." Anything missing is surely gone for good, as Jan Senior died
three or four or
more years ago and his son disposed of all the clutter in the shop to the four
winds.
There is an amazing amount of labor involved in producing these with shearing
and bending all those parts and preparing masters for the white metal castings,
all for
kits which almost certainly never sold a hundred units.
Jace Kahn
General Manager
Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co.
> Have added 3 pix of LWS SW-? I assembled about early 1980's from Jan's kit
> with the Cascade chain drive. Now has a sound decoder and runs fairly well
> even compared to SHS SW's. Somebody will note the number should be double
> digits not 239 -- so true but in our innocence of 1970-1980's what did we
> know? JC Rooney
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