American Hi-Rail Hiawatha

I have no suggestions, but would love to see what it looks like!

Dennis,

Here's a photo that a guy from another list sent me.  Very nice kit from what I've understand, but all I got was the two shells.  I can finish it off well enough using parts from other things.  Not as nice as this, but good enough for my purposes.

The original offering also had the Hiawatha cars, which I don't have.  So I'll use a set of  Gilbert/Lionel cars repainted to Milwaukee Road behind it. 

I've always been partial to the oddball engines and rolling stock.  OK, those who know me also know why...

Jerry, I have one of these kits, although I haven't built it yet.  I found it on eBay several years ago.  I can look tonight and see if there is an instruction sheet.  I kind of remember that there was.

Scott Griggs

Louisville, KY

That's interesting. I always thought that model was made by Mel at Ballston Locomotive works.

banjoflyer posted:

Jerry,

I found this info on your model on the NASG site.

Like you said the original American Hi-rail kit was offered by Tom Hodgeson.

The link shown above shows a kit of parts by Dean Hall.

Something told me he participates on this forum and sure enough he does.

Maybe he could help you with your project.

Mark

Mark,

Thanks for the link.  It didn't work at first, but I found the info on the NASG site when looking for it.  Great shots of the parts in the kit.  Like I said, I only found the two shells, both of which need to be stripped of the poorly applied black paint.  Right now, this is a low priority project, but I like to get things in order before starting one.

Scott,

I contacted you on the email address in your profile.  Thanks for the offer!