Re: C&S Brass, Any Scale, Listed on eBay

Posted by Mike Trent on
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Hi Jim, looks like your OMI On3 list is pretty complete.

One thing I don't understand is why there should be any confusion over how many #72's were produced. There were 25. I've seen something, somewhere that there were 24 or 26 of them, but there were 25 unless there was some sort of mistake made by the builder that Tom may have discovered later. The pilot model for the B-3-E's was a #71. We would also receive a partially assembled model that would be used for parts in the event it was necessary. But I think that was also a #71, or would have been had it been complete.

An oddity about the #72's and #73's was that M.S. Models put the wrong smokebox fronts on all of them. The #72's have the right smokebox fronts for #73, and all the #73's have #72's smokebox fronts. I have had, over the years, two pairs of them, and switched them. I also am pretty sure there is at least one other pair that was changed. Tough to do, unless you had one of each locomotive. They are all extremely rare.

My first project with OMI was the Sn3 #74. I'm sure that was 1985. It was a beautiful engine, but didn't run very well out of the box.

I had always hoped that a run of B-4-F's would be produced in On3, but Tom didn't think it would be a good idea since the #74 had already been released by Sunset. The Sunset model can be essentially rebuilt, but it's a lot of work. Another project I'd hoped would have been produced was #537, but there just wasn't enough interest, and the cost would have been astronomical for it's time. That was also why Baggage and Mail #13 was never produced in On3.

Also, you are correct that of the #70-#73 series coaches that particular model was only accurate for #70, with it's straight roof profile over the platforms. It also has lamps mounted sideways, not inline. I don't know if that was correct for #72 and #73, but I do know that those two coaches had drop corner roofs like Coaches #74-#76.