Great stuff today as usual! thanks to you all.
Monsieur Silverlake, the motors in rebuild progress are great to see. I am also a big fan of the high line NYC era and warehouses and rail marine stuff as you know.
BIG switchers ! R2 and Tri-motor are well worth refurbishing! I remember seeing those models at early scale shows in the 80’s. Currently referred to as the doorstop models, which I think is sad. But they are heavy and a lot of work. There was a guy (was it Mike Lorenz?) in English town NJ that did some conversions of these from outside 3rd rail to two rail I believe. He had a show on occasion in his machinist shop property where there were dozens of set up tables and had a train flea market. There were parts galore, table upon table of cardboard boxes for these vintage motors, and of course locos of all description. really cool stuff back in the day. There were many bronze shells, chassis, motors, and finishing parts. Aside from this I remember There was a big sign over the machine shop door , do Not feed the dog doughnuts! Any body remember this annual meet? I bought my first All Nation NW 2 switcher with one powered truck.
the Lionel S2 is certainly a great candidate for scale conversion. Joe F. Has done a few of them. Great!
