Erie Lackawanna Historical Society Two New ELHS Exclusives
New ELHS Exclusive ERIE PIERMONT STATION
MAITLAND TOWER HO
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
ELHS Exclusive HO Scale Laser cut wood kit with peel and stick siding, details, and shingle.
Maitland Tower
Foot print: Base - 4-1/8" L x 2-1/2" W Roof - 5-3/4" L x 4-1/4" W Manufactured by Branchline
Member price $9900
Member price $5200
plus MAITLAND TOWER $8.95 s&h (US Funds Only)
Member price $1400
$8.95 s&h (US Funds Only) plus
$11900 Non-member price
Non-member price $6500
ERIE CROSSING SHANTY plus $8.95 s&h (US Funds Only)
Member price HO $5000
plus $8.95 s&h
This kit builds into a model representing crossing shanties located throughout the Erie west end.
HO ISSMAYER FLOOR RUNNER AND AMERICAN SET
Non-member price $1750
★ ★ STILL AVAILABLE ★ ★ DL&W Vestal, N.Y. Station
(US Funds Only)
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
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
Member price $5200
$8.95 s&h (US Funds Only)
Erie Lackawanna Passenger Equipment Diagram Book, Book No. 15, Issued Aug. 30, 1966.
Member price $1400
plus $8.95 s&h (US Funds Only)
Member price HO $5000
plus $8.95 s&h plus $8.95 s&h
Erie Lackawanna Freight Equipment Diagram Book, Book No. 78, Updated May 9, 1975
★ ★ STILL AVAILABLE ★ ★ DL&W Vestal, N.Y. Station
(US Funds Only) (US Funds Only) plus
Non-member price $6500
$32.00 $24.00
This kit builds into a model representing crossing shanties located throughout the Erie west end.
DL&W Locomotive Classificaton Diagram Book Revised July 1st 1939
DL&W Classification of Freight Equipment Corrected to May 1, 1952
ERIE CROSSING SHANTY $30.00 $21.00
Non-member price $1750
$32.00
Non-member price HO $6500
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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
90 $32.00 (Book prices are non-member. Please allow 4-6 weeks delivery)
Carette dies and presumably its litho plates, the origins of the car therefore pre-date the start of the 1914 war. This indicates a much higher quality model compared to what we were producing at that time. On six-wheel bogies, rare in that era, Carette had an envied posi- tion in the English market through Bassett-Lowke’s London shop and cat- alogs. Its more serious scale models were very prototypical, particularly for the British who were very attentive model railroaders. Carette and Schoen- ner made the finest scale or near scale passenger cars in the larger gauges judging from extant photos this writer has seen. It’s too bad the company was so short lived, for who can say what might have developed had it not been
Erie Waldwick Interlocking Tower HO & N plus
Maitland Tower N
Erie Crossing Shanty Non-member price
HO $6500 $4800
ISSMAYER TIN PRINTED STATION
forced by war to depart from what had suddenly become “enemy” territory. These and other companies, Schoen-
Non-member price HO $6500
★ ★ STILL AVAILABLE ★ ★
ner, Gunthermann, to name a few from the late 1890’s on, made lithographed floor runners from realistic to very playful for our domestic market. These toys couldn’t help but set standards which influenced our nascent toy train manufacture.
Erie Crossing Shanty
Tin printed Bing,
Carette, and Marklin in the 1890’s and early 1900’s were the preferred tracked trains for their quality. Ives first clock- work models were directly copied from German precedents before finding its own “American voice,” so to speak. The last under discussion here is Kraus-Fandor, a firm started in 1910, initially to make tin-printed clockwork trains for export, later electric. The Standard Esso tanker, circa 1920’s to 1930’s, is an example of the parent company’s tin printing tradition which scion Dorfan continued here. We can observe its ladder and small ledge are rendered flat on the tanker body, but with raised rivets resulting from form- ing, plus data which rarely appeared on similar Ives, Lionel or American Flyer printed models. When Dorfan closed in 1934 we were not to see such quality again until 1941 when Marx began producing ³/₁₆th scale O gauge freight cars.
Lithography continued strongly af-
ter World War II in Germany, England, France, Spain, Japan and, of course, here. Germany is where it all started; it was important to all toy train manu- facture, particularly ours.
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