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Re: (erielack) RR Tug
Tony -
The tug in question is made by a company called Frenchman River, and is of the Bowes design, which was used primarily by the Reading, CNJ, and B&O/C&O.
With modification, you could get a steam tug out of the kit, but as built, it is a diesel tug.
The Walthers kit, almost right out of the box, gives you a TAMS design diesel tug, just right for the Hornell, Elmira and their sisters. The kit itself was designed around the LV's Wilkes-Barre class, also of the TAMS design, but with detail mods, you will be able to have a beautiful kit that is spot on for the last tugs the Erie bought.
Hope this helps answer the basics.
Ralph Heiss
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- --- On Wed, 6/10/09, tonyhorn1_@_comcast.net <tonyhorn1@comcast.net> wrote:
Have any listers seen the Model Expo catalog that came in the mail (yesterday)? Front page had a 1/87 resin kit for an RR tug. It stated the prototype was built in the early '50s. Didn't seem to look like a Marion class and I was wondering which railroad had tugs like this. Would it be feasible for an Erie scene or is the Walthers kit closer. (I know, the Overland version of the Marion would be best, but did anyone see what the dented version sold for on eBay (over $500)?
Tony Horn
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