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Good Morning!!  Does anyone else have a Joe Dorazio built locomotive(S)?  I had him build me a Wyoming type Lehigh Valley  locomotive.  It is set up to run  2 or 3 rail using DC power.  Are there currently custom builders of Locomotives?   

Joe had a nice system(no computer scheduling)  He used a card file and he placed your " want"  in file  and as it neared "build" time he would contact you and if still interested  you would make a small deposit. Then over course of construction 2 additional payments were made and approx 1 month before completion you would get notification of final payment due! Worked well my Loco took aprox 9 months from start to finish! 

Why a Lehigh Valley you ask???? I'm in Sayre pa and first one in 4 generations that did not work for railroad!!

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@bob2 posted:

Yes!  I admire Joe's work.  A back issue of OSN featured his workshop.  Wish I had known about him in 1959 - went to high school in Berwyn, a stone's throw from Norristown.  Even had a classmate named Dorazio, among other quite famous names.

This one, I think... 

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Article has some nice photos as well, but my crappy cellphone didn't do them justice...

Mark in Oregon

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Well I'm back! The bathroom is done! Shortly after completion my replacement knee that was installed October 2016 ( in what I called  a textbook perfect surgery/result)  decided to  get infected!!   So October 1 2020 I started the "process" to replace the knee. It required 2 surgeries, 3 stays in hospital for 16 total days, 3 stays in rehab hospital for 87 days and 178 days confined to hospital bed ( which results in one learning to walk again).                  Anyhow here are the photos  of locomotive  it is a turned brass boiler very heavy, set up to run 2 rail or inside 3 rail with DC operations.             

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@bob2 posted:

Sorry about your knee.  How long after surgery did the infection set in?

When you are back to 100%, pull that model off the shelf and into the sunlight and try again.  With your permission, we could lighten and enhance a good shot without the glass in front of it.

Infection occured just short of 4 years after first joint replacement. No way to tell where it came from. Get a infection it can travel to that replaced joint!  I'll get my grandson to help get it down so we get some better photos. Little story when he was 5 or 6 he came up to set up an LGB set under the Christmas tree and he is very diligent in his work and after we tested it for a bit he asked me Grandpa could I have some of your trainsI?  I told he probably could have them his next question was  "Do I have to wait for you to die?"

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