----- Original Message ----- From: "Vance Bass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Jim, if I recall correctly, the Creekside Baldwin was just a heavily modified Mamod. So > that leaves only the Cricket -- a sad and shameful record, in my opinion. Hi Guys, While I agree that this is a shameful record, it is not absolutely complete, as it is not including some very nice No. 1 gauge steamers that were made here in the past, those of toymaker Boucher, of New York City. They made a dandy No. 1 gauge Pacific in both electric and live steam power. I believe the basic design was cribbed from one by Henry Greenly, the noted British model designer. But Boucher made some very nice models, and their live steam equipment was manufactured for them by Anton Bohoboy, first in Brooklyn, NY and late from a shop behind his home in Rahway, New Jersey. Bohoboy also made the steam plants for the Boucher steam boats, and stationary engines, as well as a live steam power plant, that could be placed in the tender of a "Buddy-L" push toy steam locomotive's tender, to make it a powered model. The Bohoboy flash steam speed boats's were even raced in amateur model speed boat contests, in their Boucher made hulls. A small footnote to be sure, but they were commercially made high quality No. 1 gauge live steam model locomotives, and made in reasonable numbers. You will occasionally see them for sale at auction, or at the TCA meets in York, Pennsylvania. Keith Taylor
