Klamath Loco Works

[one_inch_railroad]

Yes I have a friend here in Canada who was ripped off by Mr Mason as well.

[Jim_Nolan]

For anyone interested I have a full set of castings for the Hudson Klamath produced. Its everything shown in his catalogue there has been some test machine work done on a couple of wheels but other than that everything is original and currently sitting in a tea chest. I can email the pages form the catalogue as I still have a copy of it if anyone wants to see what is included.

I was thinking I might put it on DLS in the new year as where the chest is stored is in the middle of a marriage break up and ill have to move them before the house gets sold.

[rrnut-2]

What are you asking for the castings. I am interested.
Jim B

[Howard Gorin]

Maybe somebody should take the castings and try to make new casting patterns.
Did the Canadian fellow distroy the original patterns.
I think Ralph Lathrop had Pat Allen make patterns for East Coast Locomotive.
Pat was a interesting fellow

[rrnut-2]

Howard, yes Pat did the orginal patterns, that was according to Ralph Lathrop.

Jim B

[Howard Gorin]

Pat was a character, when he was helping Herb Smith at Boston Model Railroad develop patterns for a B & M K8 Pat wrote some notes on an erection drawing, so no one could read the notes, Pat wrote the notes in Japanese characters. Pat was a locomotive engineer, when he retired he had the most "whiskers" of any engineer in the Northeast. Pat did not think much of me, in fact he would not even talk to me. Later when I building injectors, Pats opinion of me improved slightly.