S-Scale Cab Forward Locomotive, anybody make one ? Thanks.
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Check out the NASG website - nasg.org - which has a 'complete' listing - most with pictures - of 'everything' (including Gilbert) built in S-scale (I use 'single quotes' only because I haven't found any exceptions, but there might be some out there). In any event, you'll find that SouthWind made an S-scale model of one of the SP cab forward versions. There is a Youtube video of an S-scale cab forward - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks5Qs5l8qCg - that claims to be a River Raisin model - but I don't see it listed on the RRM website and its not listed in the aforementioned NASG site - so dunno whether its actually RRM or not. You'll note that the cab number seems to be different than what is shown in the SouthWind loco pictured on the NASG site.
Thank you for the information.
richs09 posted:Check out the NASG website - nasg.org - which has a 'complete' listing - most with pictures - of 'everything' (including Gilbert) built in S-scale (I use 'single quotes' only because I haven't found any exceptions, but there might be some out there). In any event, you'll find that SouthWind made an S-scale model of one of the SP cab forward versions. There is a Youtube video of an S-scale cab forward - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks5Qs5l8qCg - that claims to be a River Raisin model - but I don't see it listed on the RRM website and its not listed in the aforementioned NASG site - so dunno whether its actually RRM or not. You'll note that the cab number seems to be different than what is shown in the SouthWind loco pictured on the NASG site.
Nope. River Raisin never made a SP Cab Forward, only SouthWind Models.
I recall a fellow named Jess Benet also scratchbuilt a scale SP Cab Forward in days gone by.
Rusty
The late Jess Bennett of Careywood, Idaho, scratchbuilt several cab forwards--I believe seven or eight according to the late Lee Johnson--prior to the 1990's. I don't know which of the various AC styles may have been included. I owned one of SouthWind Models' AC-12s around 2000 for a year or two. It was one of a very small number that had the WWII era hooded headlight below the front windows.
