Locomotive Workshop GE centercab.

C'mon all us old guys, memory's just about OK for Jan's meets.  U25B in aluminum.  Who's next ...?

While you're thinking, I stayed at a motel just up the road from the meet and while I was in the bathroom first thing in the morning a train came along.  I just got my head at the right angle to see out the tiny window and started a great day with 3 x Conrail GP15s!

Jason

NHVRYGray posted:

Looking for information about a company called Locomotive Workshop, that I believe was at one time owned by Jan Lorenzen.  Is there anywhere these products are listed.

Was always owned by Jan. As far as I know, no one has every cataloged what was offered or what was actually delivered.

I am looking for info (and purchase) specifically on the GE center cab, that I think was sold as an aluminum casting set.

Got at least one somewhere........but finding somewhere tends to be a challenge these days despite some serious clearing out of "stuff" and completed projects that are no longer wanted and/or needed.

What other engines were made by them. 

Long list and also included traction items and freight cars

I have a set of Baldwin Sharks that cames as Aluminum sand castings.    I sanded on the bodies on and off for at least 5 years before I finally assembled the shells.   Origianllhy I powered them AHM power trucks from their foray into O.   Then I repowered them about 8-10 years ago with weaver single motor (original) drives.   

The castings are thick and the detail a little crude, but they paint up into a recognizable loce.

Jan offered a lot of kits and they were definitely craftsman - skilled craftsman.    You may have heard the story of the guy opening kit from so and so and there was block of brass and a file.    A single instruction said, "file away anything that does not look like a K4".     While that was said long before Locomotive workshop, and is an exaggeration, His kits were real kits.   

I have seen a few of the diesel kits with etched brass bodies.    The etchings were nice but the brass was not formed.    For example the Alco RS1 kit I looked had all the hood and cab parts as flat brass sheets that you formed youself.

On the other hand they were buildable.   A friend purchased a Steam 4-4-0 kit and built it.    It ran pretty well and looked ok.   It was not a museum piece but would fit with any of the brass from 60s and 70s.

My long term project is a Locomotive Workshop North Shore Line Electroliner kit, powered by Q Car Company power trucks.

Locomotive Workshop advertised in many issues of Vane Jones’ Traction and Models magazine.