Is he still active? I think I met him at an O scale show in the NE corner of Pa. several years ago, and I managed
to talk him into selling me the shell, since I wanted to make a three rail version (still unfinished..too much to do, too little time), of a Mack switch engine. I also got the hood and some other components to build a Mack railbus, but
found an unknown and unpowered brass one.