Some of you might remember Bob Cook who had BC Models and sold items in HO and HOn3 for 1870 to 1910 or so. It has come back as Bitter Creek Models. I model 1900 and I use to buy from Bob back in the 1990s. I am glad to see them back.
Rich
Good to know. He have a website?
Here’s a web link for them http://www.bittercreekmodels.com/
Man, just gotta love this hobby, huh? Where else can you go to experience everything from the birth of the Industrial Revolution up to modern times? I mean, not just watch it, but live it, dream it, build it and actually operate it?
I remember an article in a local paper after an air show that featured modern Air Force jets and old bi-planes. The weather had been good, and the bi-plane guys and Thunderbirds had swapped back-seat rides with each other. The mutual admiration was just astounding. Each appreciated what the other was doing, and also what they themselves could not do, given the limitations of their respective aircraft. You could just see the smiles coming through the newsprint.
Keep up the good work, everyone. We are keeping a heritage alive. Never forget that.
I was looking though Bob Cook’s 1997 catalog and it shows at least thirty different types of HO rolling stock that he use to sell with two pages of another twelve he was planning on releasing. Hopefully this new guy will continue the line. According to a discussion in the Yahoo Early Rail group, the owner plans to upgrade the models.
Bob originally picked up the line from Dale Newton that Dale used in the 1950s according to an email I kept from Bob some years ago. Bob used the linotype machine from Dale for the castings.
Rich
nice collection of trucks and detail parts . i was actually dissapointed he doesn’t have any cars on the site yet , hopefully he’ll get them up soon .
ernie
Nice stuff! Would those detail parts be 1/87 scale? He’s got a lot of odds and ends I could really use.
Here is one of the kits sold by BC Models. It consist of wood frame, wood roof, cabin ends are castings, windows and doors are castings, equipment box and truss rods are castings. Cabin sides are pre-printed thick paper. Most of the work was sanding. The castings were rather thick and the backs of the castings needed a lot of sanding. Except the paper sides, everything else needed painting. The trucks are not correct but for me the car was restored and visiting with UP 119. I might get the wood beam passenger car trucks. I have a photographer figure with box camera on a tripod to set up next to the car. On the end of the car are two brown squares that look like solid windows. Both ends are like this. They were frames in which Silvis inserted photos to be view by people. He did photos inside also. You can see the skylight on top for his inside studio. A twelve inch shelf has to be put at one of the open windows where Silvis would put the photos to be developed using sun light.
Instructions are very basic. It is not shake the box or stick built but it still took a lot of thought. Maybe the new owner will make it available again.
Rich