Hello O scale world ...80 years ago Europe is in flames and America is hosting two World Fairs (NYC and SF ..Treasure Island) .... Railroads were in their prime showing off rail travel and the major role they played to the American way of life. Most the railroads had exhibitions of real trains and model layouts . Steam still ruled the rails but diesels were creeping in and were a big hit with their flashy bright colors and streamlined designs. The EMC E2 was the latest and greatest jointly owned by the CN&W , SP and UP ... Heralds for each adored the nose .
CN&W and SP both had O scale layouts ..running models of the City of San Francisco pulled by the E2 ... (UP also had a layout with the C O S ..but it was HO gauge ..first major use of HO in a public display ..but it's HO so who cares) . Here are the patterns used to make the 1939 fair E2's ....in glorious 17/64ths ...... ( sadly sitting on 1/4" scale trucks ..see how little they are?) ....so where are the engines that were made from this pattern today ????
Any 17/64ths diesel trucks out there ?
Cheers Carey
