different paint schemes. For a very short time there were also an 0-8-0 switcher and a New Haven electric lo- comotive, the latter an Americanized Dutch diesel (or maybe the Dutch elec- tric looo was really a Europeanized New Haven engine). Some European models were also of-
fered in this catalog. In Germany most of those U.S. models are now collector’s items, with the engines fetching three- digit prices and with some rogues try- ing to cheat with invented paint schemes, such as a red and white Bald- win S-12.
HANS RENKER Koblenz, Germany
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Photo credit correction We made an error in the photo credit
December “Collector” additions I would like to add to the COLLECTOR CONSIST column in the December, 2011, issue of RMC. Few people seem to know that be-
tween 1954 and the early 1970’s Fleis- chmann offered a large range of HO scale models of U.S. prototypes. The book Die anderen Nurnberger, Vol. VII (out of print) contains a copy of a U.S. catalog from 1962, probably the peak year, in which eleven different train sets ranging from an industrial 0-4-0 diesel, two freight cars and a bobber caboose for $10.98 to a Mikado with smoke, five freight cars and an eight-wheel bobber caboose for $44.98 were offered. The five steam locomotives and most
of the passenger cars were American- ized German and European models, but the four diesel engines, the afore- mentioned industrial 0-4-0, a Baldwin S-12, an Alco FA-1 and an EMD F9, two Santa Fe high-level passenger cars, and the freight cars were, by the standards of the time, excellent mod- els. Over the years the diesel locomo- tives and cars were available in many
for the prototype pictures on pages 55 and 56 of the January, 2012, issue of RMC. The Cheltenham, Ontario, gra- nary and depot photos were taken by Bob Sandusky, an excellent and prolif- ic photographer of railway subjects, es- pecially in that part of Canada. We apologize for the error. That little station building, and the
scene and its details, would make a se- riously-good model! Besides the pleas- ing lines and size, the freight platform along the entire front certainly adds in- terest. At stops like this a steel plate would be dropped across the gap be- tween the platform and baggage or l.c.l. express car so a hand truck could be used to move the freight on and off the car. Note that passengers would have to board from the ground level.—BILL S.
Silkspan In one of those late-night editing ses-
sions the material Tom Troughton used for roofing on his fine model of the Miner’s Union Hotel, described in the February issue, got garbled. Just sub- stitute the word silkspan for the air- craft tissue covering used for the roll roofing and it will make more sense. Apparently, whether or not it is a brand, the product’s name has become a generic description.—BILL S.
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