Being a Heavy Equipment Fan ( A Enthusiast of Prototype Heavy Equipment), just like railfan and having experience of operating same in the military, what became of the Stewart Products tooling for the Euclid Scrapper Kit?
Have one and is a excellent flat car load, to go with my NKP flatcar. I believe that Nickle Plate Road, was Euclid’s rail connection at their respective plant in Euclid, Ohio.
The old Stewart Products (not to be confused with the firm that Bowser acquired that made or makes diesel locomotives in HO) was, I am pretty sure, acquired by Virnex some years ago. Virnex until then was mostly known as a decal firm.
A thread on the Forums some time ago concluded that Virnex was no more. http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/229812.aspx
Stewart had a number of interesting kits including that Scraper (I think I have one, unbuilt, in some box somewhere), sanding facilities, clamshell shovel, cable loads, and the like. But I have to say the detail is rather blunt and not always up to current standards.
Dave Nelson
Hi, Run Eight
I used to live in the shadow of the Euclid plant on St. Clair Ave. east of Cleveland. You are correct that the manufacturing plant was served by the Nickel Plate. Euclid had a R&D facility on the north side of St. Clair that had a New York Central siding into it.
I remember seeing those huge, bright green monsters being tested in a field at the facility. They would pose one of their newly finished machines near the street for the public to see.
Today, Lincoln Electric owns the plant and (I think) the R&D facility, too. They erected a huge windmill in the field where the Eucs were tested.
http://www.lincolnelectric.com/en-us/industries/wind-power/pages/wind-tower.aspx
[click on “view slide show” and you will see the former Euclid plant in the pics]
I have one of the Stewart kits that Dave mentions, a generator flat car load. I agree with him that their level of detail leans toward the crude side by today’s standards.
Have fun! Ed