{"id":369,"date":"2012-01-29T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=369"},"modified":"2022-07-07T13:32:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T20:32:21","slug":"vintage-oo-layout-photos-iv-fred-schorr-1948","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=369","title":{"rendered":"Vintage OO Layout Photos IV: Fred Schorr, 1948"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today in the vintage photos series I have a great line up of kitbashed locomotives by Fred. E. Schorr, Jr. This particular photo is dated on the back 5-1-48 and has three similar locomotives on what must have been near a key junction on his layout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fred Schorr was an OO manufacturer and imported brass models for American OO from Japan. The models in this photo however are all based on Nason or perhaps Star-Continental 4-4-2 boilers with other Nason (and Lionel) parts. The Star-Continental 4-4-2 was sort of an odd model in a way, of its time. Introduced in 1937, it was a freelanced version of a PRR K-4\/K-5 Pacific but built as an Atlantic. After 1939 it was produced by Nason, until WWII.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starting at the front in the photo we have an unmodified version of the boiler mated with the running gear and tender of a Nason 2-8-0. Next up, based on the M1 marking, is a 4-8-2 also along PRR lines built on the same Nason 2-8-0 running gear but with a Lionel Hudson tender. In the back we see finally a 4-6-2, the model Star-Continental perhaps really had in mind when they created their 4-4-2. The 4-8-2 and 4-6-2 models have lengthened boilers and other modifications that can be spotted with a close look (click on the photo for a closer view). A lot of hours of work are on display in the 1948 photo!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To close, from one of the first articles on this website we have this very similar model.<\/a> It was also built by Fred Schorr, probably I would guess a bit later than the models above. This model is also based on the same 4-4-2 model but this time with the original tender and with the boiler mounted on a Scale-Craft 4-6-0 frame. It is a very fine model but as noted in an update to the original article, it needs a bit of work at present as the gearbox is worn out. One quirk of this model could be noted as well; it runs (or ran) backwards from normal standards. I don’t know if this was intentional or not; the other locomotive I own that was built by Fred Schorr, a 2-8-0 camelback (also using the Nason 2-8-0 and 4-4-2 parts), runs beautifully in the right direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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