Samuel Shaw passenger cars

Most interesting - have heard of Ed Alexander and Fred Icken but not Samuel Shaw. Those heavyweights are probably very elusive models. Just curious, did you acquire this car at an auction, estate sale or an antique shop?

Does any Shaw motive power exist?  Any relation to the Shaw family of Madison Hardware fame?

Hello I recently purchased the car at auction ... previous owner had no additional information or history about it . I'll check at the TCA library during York if they have any additional info.

Cheers Carey  

Always interesting discovering what was once available...Sometimes you find something you can use that is not now available.  I, too, had heard of Icken and others, but not Shaw.

That's awesome Carey 

Librarian on duty was very helpful and agreed to e-mail any info she could find.

Consider submitting photo to the TCA Quarterly for John Newbraugh and his "Who Done It?" column.

UPDATE: TCA Librarian, Jan Athey, replied via e-mail today that she has NO information on Samuel Shaw or his trains but would like to start a file on his company.

Could it be possible that this gentleman showed up with a prototype and some big ideas and promises and then was never heard from again? Just speculation by me, but this sort of thing happens on the time today and I would think then also. Beautiful car though.

Quite possibly a one-off?? Makes sense.

Hello all 

In 1934 first year of Model Railroader ..Standard Gauge is given proper listing as a gauge with two scales   3/8" ( which is really closer to  1 gauge ) and 7 /16ths  ....people   were modeling in Standard Gauge ..there was a small market ...  Shaw was for real .. no one off here .. 

see listing for Standard gauge from MR 1934 

Cheers Carey 

One would expect more of these in circulation since these were likely sold as scale models rather than toys, and presumably would have been afforded better care and preservation. Rather puzzling, especially in light of the TCA Library having no records of this builder. Maybe time to submit this conundrum to John Newbraugh for his TCA Quarterly column?