Hi All,
Any ideas
on how we can help Mr. Dieffenbach? IF
so, please reply to both the list and to Mr Dieffenbach.
Thanks!!
Dave Lotz
Pooler, GA
-----Original Message-----
From: pauldieff@verizon.net
[mailto:pauldieff@verizon.net]
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 1:22
PM
To: BRHS@burlingtonroute.com
Subject: swap meet find
Hello -
Assuming this reaches you at all, please forward to your "modeling the
Q" department or similar
arm of the
Society.
Over
the past weekend I attended the big all-O scale meet in Lombard, Ill, and
bought a CB&Q
O-5 oil-fired
4-8-4 no. 5632 which I strongly suspect may be a Bernie Corbin engine (yes, I
know
it sounds like
dreaming that such a thing would turn up at a common swap meet, but you never
know);
I already have
one Corbin engine (M-4 "Colorado" no. 6513; you may have seen it on
eBay last year)
and the
construction techniques, level of detail, quality and tone of the paint and
lettering work, etc,
are remarkably
similar between the two engines. If you put a ruler on them, both engines
are slightly
oversized for
true quarter-inch scale. Locomotive is definitely not the commercial brass
product; I
have seen
enough of those to tell them from domestically-made custom or scratch-built
locos.
What
assistance can you offer to pin down whether this engine is or is not a Corbin
loco? I can send
you all the
photos you want or need. I know Model Railroader magazine
ran at least one photo essay
on Mr.
Corbin's work but I can't begin to remember where to look for it.
Any
assistance you can offer into this matter is greatly appreciated.
Thank
you / Paul Dieffenbach, Lansdowne, Pa