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HP Products TT scale Challenger

CW Carey WilliamsOGR Forum Member

Harold Joyce of Hartford, Ind ( H. P. Products ...still in business ) introduces TT gauge (1/10=1" scale ) at the end of 1946.
H. P. Products first engine was a EMC E6 ...followed by an 060 switcher... additional steam engines were quickly added cleverly using the main drive components in different configurations. 1949 Joyce adds the UP Challenger as the premier engine ..available to those "with plenty of ingenuity" as a handful of parts for $54.50....or RTR factory built $85.00....
HP Products paved the way for TT which gathered several other American manufactures in the late 40's and 50's ...TT faded at the end of the 50's and HP Products discontinued train production in the early 60's . Harold Joyce's TT found a much larger audience in Europe which still continues today.
H P Products still happy stamping metal in Hartford..and retains the same PO Box address from 1947.

To see the Challenger in motion please see link ...
Hopefully soon I set up a real loop of TT to give proper exercise to the engine

https://youtu.be/nyZyG57E7SM



Cheers Carey



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StrummerStrummerOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBER

Very cool Carey, as usual. 🙂

I dabbled very briefly in TT around 1973-74. Had a catalog like the one you show, but it was printed in blue as opposed to red. I had the E7; (some place was unloading their stock of them at 10 bucks apiece) and later a handful of freight cars along with their rather odd track. Thought the E7 was rather nice looking, although very basic and lacking in almost any kind of detail.

I think Gandy Dancer(?) was trying to revitalize the scale at that time; they ran an add in RMC and I think they were offering the old Kemtron FA. There was also an outfit in Montana, I believe, that had craftsman style car kits.

Anyway, after a year or so I sold all my stuff to a TT guy in New Jersey and stayed with HO and N (mostly HO) until the late 1980s...

Mark in Oregon

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