@atlpete posted:I believe post CB, Ed Duddy (House of Duddy) picked these up along with the EL-C/EF-4/E-33, he would offer them both as kits and assembled; this Duddy built example sports a single can in the car body driving CLW towers. For me the knock against the older Wolfer Chain drive is the fiber axle gears would get brittle and break teeth.
A late colleague of ours, Eddie Chamber's did some of the painting for Ed on these, as I recall he used the Champ Blue Ribbon sets for the E-44's, the lettering and heralds both are unique to the E-44 size and color-wise, so I get why you want to have them custom printed. As an aside, according to Eddie the Virginian scheme was the most popular on the E-33 in terms of orders.
Pete, There is a picture of Bill Wolfer and Ed Duddy shaking hands to mark the sale of Bill's stuff to "House of Duddy" in an old issue of the late "O Scale News". As I mentioned earlier in this thread, I remember seeing Ed at the TCA York meet and he had ALL the stuff he had gotten from Bill there, and a cast Aluminum shell GG1, which I think was an Alexander. Guessing the Bill had sold all of his Custom Brass GG1's before the transaction.
Love to be able to go back and speak with Ed knowing what I know now, as I was just starting out in O back then.
Simon
