When I was little, my family had a hobby shop in Philadelphia, where one of the bigger sellers we had was AHM. In fact, Bernie Paul and my father knew each other, so we would sometimes be invited to the warehouse in North Philly to pick out some of the seconds and stock that was not going into boxes to be sold. I can still see barrels full of gorgeous Rivarossi steam locomotives and GG-1s with little paint blemishes not going into boxes, but we would get some to run on the store's layout to demonstrate the AHM stock we had.
I was so incredibly happy when I saw IHC come into being, as Mehano did a great job of picking up where AHM left off. My HO B&O President Washington and heavyweights are IHC, and it is simply gorgeous! Not to mention, a very smooth runner that gets better with every run!
In fact, when IHC would have sales, I would pick up a loco or passenger cars. I think I also did the tuscan GG-1 and Fleet of Modernism cars from IHC as well!
Running those takes me back to when I was little, watching the AHM trains run in our store.
On another note, I seem to think that a company named Pemco had some of these locomotives, notably the GG-1 and the 4-8-2 that IHC would later put out.
