09-23-2010, 01:22 AM
I have an SS Ltd. model of a really small Mack Model "BR" switcher. I was going to use a PDT or a Flea to power it back in 1977 when I bought it and use the little guy so switch a the Mack truck plant that was sheduled for Allentown, PA back in 1989 when I was beginning the build of a 22'-8" x 34'- 10" basement sized railroad. Ah! Unrealized dreams! I had spent too much time planning and then job loss after a hostile take-over of my "forever stable" employer forced the sale of the home and a big move to a smaller living quarters. 
While unpacking 53 boxes of model railroad stuff after this last move and the determination to build a decent railroad before it was time to take the eternal dirt nap, I rediscovered this little gem. The real estate to be the location of the Mack truck plant was re assigned to GERN, but there still might be room to squeeze in a Mack truck plant -- what else will I do with the 26 1923 Jordan Mack truck cab/chassis that were stock-piled to populate the "fresh build" area where flat cars are loaded for shipment and the little Model "BR" would position the Flat cars for pick up by the local peddler freight. A cursory check indicated that the PDT and Flea were both out of production.
With this find, Gary, I just might resurect the concept of a Mack Truck Assembly. I'll just have to use som "modeler's license" and move the plant to Lehighton ... it's only a dozen or so miles up the Lehigh River ... why not?
Thanks for the find Gary! I'll have to get out the roll of Canary Tracing Paper and try to cram the Mack Assembly plant into that tight corner of the layout ... somehow.
While unpacking 53 boxes of model railroad stuff after this last move and the determination to build a decent railroad before it was time to take the eternal dirt nap, I rediscovered this little gem. The real estate to be the location of the Mack truck plant was re assigned to GERN, but there still might be room to squeeze in a Mack truck plant -- what else will I do with the 26 1923 Jordan Mack truck cab/chassis that were stock-piled to populate the "fresh build" area where flat cars are loaded for shipment and the little Model "BR" would position the Flat cars for pick up by the local peddler freight. A cursory check indicated that the PDT and Flea were both out of production.
With this find, Gary, I just might resurect the concept of a Mack Truck Assembly. I'll just have to use som "modeler's license" and move the plant to Lehighton ... it's only a dozen or so miles up the Lehigh River ... why not?
Thanks for the find Gary! I'll have to get out the roll of Canary Tracing Paper and try to cram the Mack Assembly plant into that tight corner of the layout ... somehow.
biL
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Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln