Midwestern Model Works - Announces High Quality SD40-2!

You guys need to stop responding to this goof ball. He obviously has no "insider" information into the custom brass market. He does not care if Lou Cross has a website. If he was as accomplished in model railroading as he boasts, we would have seen pictures. He refuses to admit who he really is. He has claimed that his assistant "George" found the mystery parts he was looking for some time ago, though he would not reveal what those parts were. He does not care about the progress of this hobby or he wouldn't be on here stirring up the people who actively participate in it. He has not once (that I've seen) been the least bit helpful to anyone here. He claims to be new to the scale but also an expert on every drive ever produced for the 2 rail market. He has more money than God but not enough to afford his own digital camera or website. 

He is a troll, on here for no other reason to make insane rants and ridiculous statements with the sole purpose of getting people to argue with him. Please stop feeding the troll.

Bob,

We both believe Henry's model were some of the best ever produced.  As far as his diesels, I'm not really qualified to pass judgement......I've seen them run and they were great but I've never worked on one.  Maybe that's a statement in it's self.

Jay

Can somebody please pass the popcorn?

Tom,  

Very well said!  Thanks!

Roger Lewis

Roger and Tom,

I was thinking more on the lines of a hemorrhoid. Always a pain that never goes away no matter how hard you scratch.

Tom Mapes

Roger: Help me to understand what makes the MMW drive so unique from all the other drives?

Ps: I posted a photo of my layout a while back, I got the GP9 passenger steam generator parts from P&D and Custom finishing has not produced them in a while. Yes I wish Lou had a website. I have high respect for Lou even if he doesn't do business the modern way. I buy Kohs, OMI, Key, Sunset, and now MMW brass models. No I do not buy Lionel or mth unless it is prototypical (which is 90%? never).  I only repeat what I was told.

I am a BIG N&W addict! Yes I did start O Scale last October.  I been in the hobby since I was 12. Photo of my N&W station was published in Mainline Modeler. I have been written up in the NMRA mag. The following info is not intented to impress but to help those to know me better.

George/nw2124   "Progress - either you are for it, or get out the way!"

nw2124

Lets just say you misunderstood what Tom said at Indy.  No problem.

You are correct that the drive from MMW is by far the best ever, it is a very precise drive developed and built by one of the best machinist around.  Erik makes every single part that goes into his drive including the U-joints.  Every part is machined to exact fine specifications and it is 100% built in the good old USA.  The Koreans can not come close to producing a drive like MMW's.  Having said that there is nothing wrong with the Key drive today, it uses Pittman motors, flywheels, ball bearings everywhere and will last a long time.  It's like comparing a Rolls Royce (MMW drive) to a Ford  (Key), or something like that.  Most of us are in this because as it used to say on the top of MR, "Model Railroading is Fun"  

I think reading between the lines of your posts you are trying to improve the 'O' scale market, maybe a different course would produce a different result.

Roger

Roger: I keep going over what Tom had said to me and it is very probable that I mistook what he met. I do like the SD40-2 and I do like the finer things in life, therefore the MMW drive but most important the MMW lighting system. Erik's headlight look like the real thing. I could seatle on the OMI or Key drive but not the lighting. Wish others would take a look and improve their lights.

http://midwesternmodelworks.com/lighting/

Thanks.

George/nw2124   "Progress - either you are for it, or get out the way!"