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Dennis Bill Lenoir was indeed a fantastic builder. his locomotives were extremely smooth runners and for the time frame that he built them they were extremely well detailed. Mack had probably the most Lenoir locomotives and i was lucky enough to get the  Lenoir Akron Canton  & Youngstown 2-8-2 from him as well as a Milwaukee Northern that he never did tell me who the builder was... i was lucky enough to see the huge layout Mack on RT 8 just north of Akron. I'll try to find the postcards of that layout as post them as well.

In the late 1970's/80's time frame  Mack Lowry could be found at O scale shows with tables full of custom built models for sale.  It seemed he had more models for sale than table space.  The models were typically just rolled in newspaper and stacked in large boxes.  Handling was not subtle. At the start of one show I watched him unroll dozens of Fischer cars and Lenore locomotives.  When a beautifully built Pennsy K5 came out I tried to negotiate the price - but unfortunately at the time it was beyond my budget.  

 

Ed Rappe

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A teenage friend and I vacationed with his family in Akron, OH in the summer of 1957. My friend heard of a person who had scale models, and we were able to find Mack Lowry's men's clothing store in downtown Akron. Mack was not there, but one of his store clerks told us to just walk upstairs to see the collection of engines, which we did. I was and am a NYC fan and was looking for NYC, but we did not see any. I did see large tables of the type used to make clothing, and engines just placed on these tables, all two rail scale. The most predominant were PRR J-1 2-10-4's. I think I saw four but cannot confirm. He also had a few PRR K-4's in the early trim scheme, and some Tuscan red passenger cars. There was some other steam there, smaller steam as I recall but do not remember specific engines. He had a number of B&O EM-1 2-8-8-4's also. (It was ironic to see these models, as the real things were running through Akron during that summer, and we photographed several of them.) There were a significant quantity of passenger cars, including some B&O and some C&O, I think?

In later years I also saw Mac's layout north of Akron, and I do remember one engine in particular, and that was the "proposed" Lima "double belpaire" 4-8-6 with a combined sand and steam dome, a centipede tender with a 4-10-2 wheel arrangement. I have often wondered what happened to that engine.....

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