Bought a 4-6-0 New Haven steam engine from Scale Craft. It is for my multi-scale collection. I now have engines in G-0-S-OO-H0-TT-N, and Z.
Anybody know about Scale Craft and their products?
My intention is to repaint and reletter and renumber this in NYC. Unless I hear strong objection from informed members here. I do not think this engine is very valuable.
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That looks like their standard OO guage 4-6-0 with die cast bioler and tender. Some were 3 rail, some were 2 rail. Look on the blog American OO on the web to learn more about ScaleCraft OO scale. They were available from 1938-1941 and 1945-1951 then from Kemtron till about 1956.
They were mostly known for their O Scale line which included a Penn K-4, NYC Hudson, SP Pacific, SP Mountain and Santa Fe Mikado. More in the January/February issue of O Scale Resource on the web.
J2M
Bought a 4-6-0 New Haven steam engine from Scale Craft. It is for my multi-scale collection. I now have engines in G-0-S-OO-H0-TT-N, and Z.
Anybody know about Scale Craft and their products?
My intention is to repaint and reletter and renumber this in NYC. Unless I hear strong objection from informed members here. I do not think this engine is very valuable.
Bought a 4-6-0 New Haven steam engine from Scale Craft. It is for my multi-scale collection. I now have engines in G-0-S-OO-H0-TT-N, and Z.
Anybody know about Scale Craft and their products?
My intention is to repaint and reletter and renumber this in NYC. Unless I hear strong objection from informed members here. I do not think this engine is very valuable.
sure: thanks - gg1hokk@ptd.net
Go to americanoo.blogspot.com and search "scale craft." Lots of good info.
Dick,
It was Elliot Donnelly who purchased American Model Engineers/Scale-Craft from Charles Smith in late 1936. Up till that time Scale-Craft was O Scale (only). Donnelly was a OO modeler who funded the OO line which appeared in 1937. That line though introduced as 2 rail was soon also available 3 rail to be compatible with Lionel's models which were introduced a year later. In a well known law suit, Donnelly sued Lionel for patent infringement as Lionel copied the Scale-Craft's patented trucks for their nearly identical freight cars. Lionel paid Scale-craft a royalty till their end of OO production (1941). Scale-Craft's line was available after WW2 for about 5 years and was later sold to Kemtron but OO essentially died as a commercial scale. As late as 1970 Kemtron had cases of OO products left in its warehouse. I think these were ultimately disposed of.
J2M
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