Rare Kemtron "Pufferbelly" C&NW RR 4-2-0 Pioneer with Lindsay Teaspoon of Power Motor
I just bought this little model on Ebay. These are the photos from the listing itself. The seller had many HO scale train items from an estate listed and two of them stood out to me. First was a Gem import 0-4-0 "Birdie" which are hard to find these days and secondly, he had this old Kemtron CNW Pioneer locomotive listed. Since I already have the Gem Birdie model, I was focused on this one. I was the lucky winner. I am posting some scanned pages from various catalogs that I have showing the original ads for the model and a couple of sheets of ads for the Lindsay motor, which powered these models. The model came without the motor and you could build it static, or power it with the Lindsay - Teaspoon of power -self contained motor assembly. Since Kemtron is long out of business, and all of Kemtron's patterns went to Precision Scale, Precision Scale Models makes some of the parts for this model, however, many years ago, the molds for the boiler were broken (well, one half of the boiler mold actually, according to PCS), the boiler has not been available for about 50 years. Making this a very hard to find American made brass model. (if you were one of the people that bid against me for this model, sorry, it was one of those gotta have it things)
Rare Kemtron "Pufferbelly" C&NW RR 4-2-0 Pioneer with Lindsay Teaspoon of Power Motor
I just bought this little model on Ebay. These are the photos from the listing itself. The seller had many HO scale train items from an estate listed and two of them stood out to me. First was a Gem import 0-4-0 "Birdie" which are hard to find these days and secondly, he had this old Kemtron CNW Pioneer locomotive listed. Since I already have the Gem Birdie model, I was focused on this one. I was the lucky winner. I am posting some scanned pages from various catalogs that I have showing the original ads for the model and a couple of sheets of ads for the Lindsay motor, which powered these models. The model came without the motor and you could build it static, or power it with the Lindsay - Teaspoon of power -self contained motor assembly. Since Kemtron is long out of business, and all of Kemtron's patterns went to Precision Scale, Precision Scale Models makes some of the parts for this model, however, many years ago, the molds for the boiler were broken (well, one half of the boiler mold actually, according to PCS), the boiler has not been available for about 50 years. Making this a very hard to find American made brass model. (if you were one of the people that bid against me for this model, sorry, it was one of those gotta have it things)