connecting rods and had Marx-like main rods from its rear drivers to the cylinders without crossheads. The mo- tors were Austrian. Earlier in 1972, Atlas had Alco RSC-
2 and EMD GP40 road switchers, plus a very continental-looking 0-6-0T side tank switcher with conic shaped stack. It too lacked connecting rods, having
Erie Lackawanna Historical Society Two New ELHS Exclusives
MAITLAND TOWER HO
Maitland Tower
Erie Crossing Shanty
The Maitland Tower kit builds into a model of the tower's initial configuration and can be modified to represent a number of other Erie west end towers. Maitland also broke up the block between Glen Echo and Cold Springs on the Dayton Branch and was used by the DT&I to issue trains orders. This served to extend the tower life more than anything else and remained in service well into the Conrail years. Crossing Shanty not included
Member price $5200
plus $8.95 s&h (US Funds Only)
Non-member price $6500
ERIE CROSSING SHANTY
This kit builds into a model representing crossing shanties located throughout the Erie west end.
plate, some diesel cab units had swivel- ing, integrated-chunky coupler-pilot trucks to negotiate curves. This was very Lionel-like. Wide wheel treads and deep flanges were akin to Lionel- American Flyer-Marx tinplate. Steam- ers tended to have molded-on details, like boiler railings, as did contempo- rary Lionel, American Flyer and Marx plastic locomotives. The Atlas F9 is a good example of this integrated-cou- pler-pilot truck thinking. Its large rear coupler, in an attempt to disguise the obvious distance between it and the following passenger car, is shoved deeply under it. This disguised what the correct spacing would have been were they shown coupled. The reader will also note how overlarge rivets were meant to “read” well on such a small model. But, who was paying crit- ical attention. It was new and it was fun and it occupied such little space. The catalog revealed eight locomo-
tives, the above mentioned EMD F9, GP9, GP30, Fairbanks-Morse passen- ger C-Liner, IHB 0-8-0 switcher, USRA Pacific, Plymouth WDT Industrial Switcher and Alco 0-6-0T Saddle Tank switcher. Two steamers are a contrast of what was pretty much standard N scale hobby manufacture on the one hand, and what could be better achieved on the other. The IHB had free standing boiler railings, while those on the Pacific were molded in place, as they were on the Alco saddle tank. The latter, being small, lacked
RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN
only main rods from the rear drivers and molded on details. An EMD E8 also had a swiveling pilot, though it lacked a front coupler. A Pacific, in pro- file, looked exactly like Athearn’s HO version, quite different from that in the 1975 catalog. Wheel treads and flanges remained deep. All in all, they were good models and showed how far American manufacturing standards had come since early 1960’s Lone Star- Arnold Rapido imports and later Rev- ell-Aurora lines. The 1972 models were discontinued by 1975. What is truly remarkable is the ex-
tensive variety of rolling stock offered besides standard hoppers, reefers, box- cars, gondolas, flat cars and caboose. There were 85-foot hi-cube stock cars, 60-foot bulkhead flat cars, 55-foot con- tainer cars, 42-foot bulkhead flat cars, and tank cars, from a “beer can” shorty, to single and triple dome, wood, and he- lium kinds to jumbo and a 94-foot, 16- wheel super jumbo type. Not only were they unique in such a small scale, but Atlas provided all its cars in a myriad of liveries as diverse as any in HO. N scale manufacture forged ahead, improving standards for models, track and couplers to today where fine models from the likes of Kato, Micro-Trains and others are available for a range of proto- types unthought of years ago. The 1975 Atlas catalog gives us a good snapshot of the road taken by a manufacturer mak- ing advancements to bring us to where we are today.
Member price $1400
plus $8.95 s&h (US Funds Only)
Member price HO $5000
plus $8.95 s&h
Non-member price $1750
★ ★ STILL AVAILABLE ★ ★ DL&W Vestal, N.Y. Station
(US Funds Only)
HO $5000 N
Member price $3800 (US Funds Only)
$8.95 s&h Books from
Erie Lackawanna Historical Society Erie Steam Locomotive Diagram Book Book No. 2 (1944)
Erie Passenger Equipment Diagram Book Book No. 76, May 1952
DL&W Locomotive Classificaton Diagram Book Revised July 1st 1939
DL&W Classification of Freight Equipment Corrected to May 1, 1952
Erie Lackawanna Passenger Equipment Diagram Book, Book No. 15, Issued Aug. 30, 1966.
Erie Lackawanna Freight Equipment Diagram Book, Book No. 78, Updated May 9, 1975
plus $8.95 s&h (US Funds Only) (Book prices are non-member. Please allow 4-6 weeks delivery)
www.erielackhs.org Dealer Inquiries Welcome
Order from: ELHS, Department RMC Jay Held, 10-10 ELLIS AVE, FAIR LAWN, N.J. 07410 No phone calls will be accepted For information send SASE
N.J., PA & Ohio res. add sales tax. Outside US extra s&h.
ELHS membership at $35 per membership cycle. Cycle includes four issues of our magazine “The Diamond” and four newsletters with modeling
information. Separate check please. Send to: ELHS c/o Randy Dettmer, 290 W. Prospect St., Hudson, OH 44236
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$32.00 $24.00 $30.00 $21.00
$32.00 $32.00
Non-member price HO $6500
★ ★ STILL AVAILABLE ★ ★
Erie Waldwick Interlocking Tower HO & N plus
N
Non-member price HO $6500 $4800
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