ED ALEXANDER: what period did he produce cars?

Brad:

Ed Alexander was one of the 2 founding members of the TCA and according to this site http://www.tavernpc1763.com/ph...ander_RR_Museum.html he was considered “one of the founding fathers of model railroading in North America”.

Per this link he was inducted into the O scale Hall of Fame in 2000:

http://users.foxvalley.net/~osn/EdAlexander2000.htm

That link also talks about his product lines.  For a while he did business under the name American Model Railroad Company.  I have his 1937 Catalog and attached is a scan of the cover.

HTH,

Bill

If that is the 10th anniversary edition that means he started in 1927!  Any chance you can post the balance of the pages here or in O scale yard sale? I bet there's a few historians like me who would like to see the entire catalog. BTW I was told a long time ago that the GG1 and NH electrics that Ed Duddy offered were E.P. Alexanders.

From The Collector's Book of the Locomotive, by Edwin P. Alexander (1966)

Does this mean you are bidding against me on that gondola?

I visited Ed in Yardley in 1979 while flying for Ransome Airlines out of Phillie.

I figure these old cars at about ten bucks each with trucks and couplers.  With shipping, they have now exceeded my interest.  However, I like the gondola, and have two in my collection.  I would have added a third if I could have done so for around twelve bucks total.

The prototype is a Santa Fe work train gon - only photo I have seen is a string of them in Raton Pass.  I love Raton, and try to fly through that pass every time I go east of the Rockies.

We call these old, old cast trains "doorstops"  and there are a growing number of collectors now running prices up.  That is good for me, because I tried to corner the market about a decade ago, with some success.

Bob,

I assumed the limit order was under $20 w/frt....

I like gon's and flat cars---so many loads you can use on them---there are a raft of hoppers, tank cars and boxcars---but the latter seem fewer to me.

I enjoy your posts on the other MR forum where you were posting your "doorstop" collection---that is what piqced my interest

Bob

Who is the maker of the diecast models listed?

thx

Give me a link.  I have not seen die cast yet - are they cars?  Some older die cast is 17/64 scale.

did you just snag that other model from me...?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/190682037507?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1431.l2649

Mike: Over the years I have tried to help answer questions posted by other members on the main 3-rail OGR Forum and other Internet discussion groups to which I belong.  As a result I have scanned hundreds of documents from my paper collection which I posted to the various groups.  While it’s easy to scan the covers of multi-page documents, it’s not always easy to scan the inside pages.  In the past I have ruined the binding of an old catalog by scanning it page-by-page.  I learned a costly lesson.  

This catalog is 40 pages long with the 75-year old pages held together by two staples.  I’m afraid scanning that many pages may result in working the staples loose and possibly ruining the catalog.  Perhaps another copy of this catalog will show up on eBay, or at York or some other train show.

Sorry and I hope you understand.

Bill

Wow 40 pages. Thats amazing. I understand the problem of older paper products. I have Scalecraft catalogs from back then and an early Walthers catalog. Same issues. I figured this was smaller. I will keep on the lookout for them now that I know they exist,

Brad - not me.  I did not place a single bid.  The die cast gon looks like an aluminum model, but Mini-Scale did a lot of lead castings that were almost identical to Mi-Loco.  Mi-Loco was predominantly aluminum, to my meager knowledge.

I pick up my junk freight cars at O Scale West for ten bucks or less.  Granted, the show costs $40 and the hotel $120, but by passing up the huge shipping costs I can almost fund the trip with the savings.

My last NW-2 switcher was $25 - on eBay they start at $150.