Re: One loco to last an entire life

david rutter Wrote:
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> . . . The dominant image on the page that
> month was a unpainted C&S 2-6-0 with a
> spark arrestor.
>
> The little HOn3 machine was about the most
> beautiful thing I had ever seen. It was elegant,
> perfectly proportioned and inspirational.
>     :
>     :
> Some of you likely had an experience like that.


Right On, David -

As noted previously (more than once, IIRC), my equivalent experience was buying the April, 1956 issue of TRAINS Magazine (see [ngdiscussion.net]).

As a further tie-in, somewhere deep-buried in my treasure chest of artifacts left over from before my conversion from 3.5mm/foot to 12"/foot "modeling" is a United C&S 2-6-0 – with spark arrestor – sorta like the one in the ad you mentioned.  Unfortunately, in the course of a futile attempt to get the darn thing to run worth a damn, it has been disassembled and altered somewhat . . .

The magazine, OTOH, is still pretty much intact — though rather dog-eared from re-readings every decade or so.

- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/12/2020 06:39PM by Russo Loco.