C+LS Western Maryland J-1

Bryan,

They run as good as they look. So does the Challenger. Have one of each plus three of Henry's WM cabeese. They are fabulous to say the least. They just need very good track with very large radius curves. And the coasting drive is pretty cool too. The cabeese have working Duryea underbody. 

Tom Mapes

You definitely need to buy both the Potomac and the Challenger in factory paint!

 

Simon

C&LS is a good example of a small businessman with the absolute best intentions and products, not making it. Those folks in the O Scale community who complain about products brought in by these small businessmen, operating with their own capital, may find that their complaints result in NO businessmen willing to enter this market.

I don,t believe many really complained about C@LW models, they were the best models being built at the time. A limited market and under capitalization were the basic reasons for going out of business, nobody really makes a lot of profit on the high end brass market [its a lot different selling one model on a worldwide Ebay than 50-100 models at one time] Overland has announced they are stopping any future brass imports in O scale.The few importers left are doing very limited runs to a select market and I do not believe they are making a big profit on these itemsJMHO

hibar:   sadly, that is my concern. No high end brass importers left for high quality models, even for the "Holy Five" (NYC/ATSF/UP/Penn/SP). Guess my brass buying days are coming to an end, except for Sunset 3d Rail. Just hope Scott can hold on, particularly as he has done models of locomotives for a lot of the "orphan roads". Key seems to be hanging on, too; Glacier Park apparently is going to do some logging malleys and Precision Scale makes occaisional announcements in O Scale that never seem to see the light of day. What we saw in O Scale brass was a good run, while it lasted.

Still time to get Key FTs in your favorite roadname, Dave continues to get his models made.

Don't forget rich yoder! His atsf box and stock cars are very well done and his hoppers were well recieved too. Up next are his ventilated acl cars; gondolas seem to be lurking on his horizon as well. I am a big fan of C&ls diesels too fwiw...

Bryan D.,

 I took a look at these yesterday after seeing your thread. Absolutely beautiful! I wish I could afford one. Two of my favorite engines from one of my favorite railroads!