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Schuyler Larrabee
IIRC (debatable) the owner of OMI was T Wenzel. T was for Tony or Tom, I can’t remember which, though I think Tony.
Does anyone have contact information for him?
Schuyler
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Mont Switzer
Schuyler,
Overland Models, Inc. (OMI) was Tom Marsh - green boxes, Muncie, IN
Oriental Models, Inc. (OMI) was Tony Wenzel – gold boxes, Evansville, IN
Mont
Montford L. Switzer President Switzer Tank Lines, Inc. Fall Creek Leasing, LLC. (765) 836-2914
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Sent: Friday, December 18, 2020 11:31 AM To: RealSTMFC@groups.io Subject: [RealSTMFC] Oriental Models Inc
IIRC (debatable) the owner of OMI was T Wenzel. T was for Tony or Tom, I can’t remember which, though I think Tony.
Does anyone have contact information for him?
Schuyler
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The correct name was “Oriental Limited”
Thanks!
From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Mont Switzer <MSwitzer@...>
Schuyler,
Overland Models, Inc. (OMI) was Tom Marsh - green boxes, Muncie, IN
Oriental Models, Inc. (OMI) was Tony Wenzel – gold boxes, Evansville, IN
Mont
Montford L. Switzer President Switzer Tank Lines, Inc. Fall Creek Leasing, LLC. (765) 836-2914
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Schuyler Larrabee via groups.io
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2020 11:31 AM To: RealSTMFC@groups.io Subject: [RealSTMFC] Oriental Models Inc
IIRC (debatable) the owner of OMI was T Wenzel. T was for Tony or Tom, I can’t remember which, though I think Tony.
Does anyone have contact information for him?
Schuyler
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Schuyler Larrabee
Correct, thanks, Brian
Schuyler
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of BRIAN PAUL EHNI
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2020 11:49 AM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Oriental Models Inc
The correct name was “Oriental Limited”
Thanks!
From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Mont Switzer <MSwitzer@...>
Schuyler,
Overland Models, Inc. (OMI) was Tom Marsh - green boxes, Muncie, IN
Oriental Models, Inc. (OMI) was Tony Wenzel – gold boxes, Evansville, IN
Mont
Montford L. Switzer President Switzer Tank Lines, Inc. Fall Creek Leasing, LLC. (765) 836-2914
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Schuyler Larrabee via groups.io
IIRC (debatable) the owner of OMI was T Wenzel. T was for Tony or Tom, I can’t remember which, though I think Tony.
Does anyone have contact information for him?
Schuyler
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Mont Switzer
Brian Ehni is correct.
Montford L. Switzer President Switzer Tank Lines, Inc. Fall Creek Leasing, LLC. (765) 836-2914
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io>
On Behalf Of BRIAN PAUL EHNI
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2020 11:49 AM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Oriental Models Inc
The correct name was “Oriental Limited”
Thanks!
From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Mont Switzer <MSwitzer@...>
Schuyler,
Overland Models, Inc. (OMI) was Tom Marsh - green boxes, Muncie, IN
Oriental Models, Inc. (OMI) was Tony Wenzel – gold boxes, Evansville, IN
Mont
Montford L. Switzer President Switzer Tank Lines, Inc. Fall Creek Leasing, LLC. (765) 836-2914
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io>
On Behalf Of Schuyler Larrabee via groups.io
IIRC (debatable) the owner of OMI was T Wenzel. T was for Tony or Tom, I can’t remember which, though I think Tony.
Does anyone have contact information for him?
Schuyler
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Anthony Wenzel After Oriental he started a little brass importer called AWE - Anthony Wenzel Enterprises - using stolen plans from the Shoreham Shops (around the time when Samhongsa let Lionel use someone else's plans which led to a major lawsuit by MTH that put Sam out of business). AWE did import a nice early welded Pullman box car.
On 12/18/2020 11:30 AM, Schuyler Larrabee via groups.io wrote:
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Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts
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A sideline for Oriental Limited was Powerhouse; steam locomotives with die cast boilers, brass cabs & tenders, decent running gear (the drives were OK, but tenders had “inside bearings” so to speak). They made a 2-4-4-2 (I have several of these), USRA light Pacifics & Mikes (ditto), and an N&W/ATSF 2-8-8-2 (Other road names had different tender).
Thanks!
From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...>
On 12/18/2020 11:30 AM, Schuyler Larrabee via groups.io wrote:
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Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts
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vapeurchapelon
Hello friends,
Northernscalemodels has a bunch of those PS-0 box cars from AWE and sells them VERY cheaply (for a brass car):
https://www.northernscale.com/WebListFreight.html
(I have one, too, but of course there is some work necessary. Better trucks, and the doors are poorly done, unfortunately.)
BTW, the abbreviation "OMI" never was used in connection with ORIENTAL LIMITED but ALWAYS with OVERLAND MODELS.
Many greetings
Johannes
Modeling the early post-war years up to about 1953
Gesendet: Freitag, 18. Dezember 2020 um 21:42 Uhr
Von: "Tim O'Connor" <timboconnor@...> An: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Betreff: Re: [RealSTMFC] Oriental Models Inc Anthony Wenzel After Oriental he started a little brass importer called AWE - Anthony Wenzel Enterprises - using stolen plans from the Shoreham Shops (around the time when Samhongsa let Lionel use someone else's plans which led to a major lawsuit by MTH that put Sam out of business). AWE did import a nice early welded Pullman box car. On 12/18/2020 11:30 AM, Schuyler Larrabee via groups.io wrote:
-- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts
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Andy Carlson
I have a memory which is a bit different than yours. Some importer had a batch of passenger cars made and the builder built the industry labeled"over runs" which were extra cars beyond the ordered numbers. After several years, these cars were offered to Tony and he bought them for an attractive price. I bought a few different cars for $60 each back then. Cars were nice and featured cast trucks and not the coined crap which a lot of the Japanese built passenger cars came equipped with. Over runs were a common practice is these earlier days, and the Train Shop in Santa Clara (San Jose), CA. sold many brass items which were boxed in TS boxes and labeled thusly. I did not know that Samhongsa left business from a suffered fatal law suit. I thought he simply wanted to retire. There were so many "sons of Samhongsa" Korean builders at the time. Markets are in a state of flux all the time. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA
On Friday, December 18, 2020, 12:42:56 PM PST, Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> wrote:
Anthony Wenzel After Oriental he started a little brass importer called AWE - Anthony Wenzel Enterprises - using stolen plans from the Shoreham Shops (around the time when Samhongsa let Lionel use someone else's plans which led to a major lawsuit by MTH that put Sam out of business). AWE did import a nice early welded Pullman box car. On 12/18/2020 11:30 AM, Schuyler Larrabee via groups.io wrote: IIRC (debatable) the owner of OMI was T Wenzel. T was for Tony or Tom, I can’t remember which, though I think Tony. _._,_._,_
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Mont Switzer
Andy and all,
This reminds me of Overland Models venture into Monon Steam. They ran 3 variations of the Monon's 4-6-2's at the same time. It was over a $1,000 to acquire all three. I think some guys didn't buy one because they could not get all 3. They therefore didn't sell well and there was a surplus.
Some of the surplus were sold to a dealer "out east." If you are from Indiana "out east" is defined an anywhere east of Ohio.
Overland had a method of disposing of overruns and defective models. 1. clobber each one with a hammer 2. dumpster
I friend of mind had what looked like a half a refrigerator box full of the hammer stricken models. He occasionally unsoldered various pieces and parts that he needed or wanted for projects.
Long time brass collector Tom Marsh who started and ran Overland Models as an astute business man, whether we hobbyist's liked it or not.
Mont Switzer
Mont Switzer
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] on behalf of Andy Carlson [midcentury@...]
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2020 8:45 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: [RealSTMFC] Oriental Models Inc I have a memory which is a bit different than yours.
Some importer had a batch of passenger cars made and the builder built the industry labeled"over runs" which were extra cars beyond the ordered numbers. After several years, these cars were offered to Tony and he bought them for an attractive
price. I bought a few different cars for $60 each back then. Cars were nice and featured cast trucks and not the coined crap which a lot of the Japanese built passenger cars came equipped with. Over runs were a common practice is these earlier days, and the
Train Shop in Santa Clara (San Jose), CA. sold many brass items which were boxed in TS boxes and labeled thusly. I did not know that Samhongsa left business from a suffered fatal law suit. I thought he simply wanted to retire. There were so many "sons of Samhongsa"
Korean builders at the time. Markets are in a state of flux all the time.
-Andy Carlson
Ojai CA
On Friday, December 18, 2020, 12:42:56 PM PST, Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> wrote:
Anthony Wenzel After Oriental he started a little brass importer called AWE - Anthony Wenzel Enterprises - using stolen plans from the Shoreham Shops (around the time when Samhongsa let Lionel use someone else's plans which led to a major lawsuit by MTH that put Sam out of business). AWE did import a nice early welded Pullman box car. On 12/18/2020 11:30 AM, Schuyler Larrabee via groups.io wrote: IIRC (debatable) the owner of OMI was T Wenzel. T was for Tony or Tom, I can’t remember which, though I think Tony.
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Jared Harper
What is a stute?
Jared Harper
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Mont Switzer
Jared,
a and stute when combined is astute. He was a good business man.
Mont
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] on behalf of Mont Switzer [MSwitzer@...]
Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2020 10:03 AM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Oriental Models Inc Andy and all,
This reminds me of Overland Models venture into Monon Steam. They ran 3 variations of the Monon's 4-6-2's at the same time. It was over a $1,000 to acquire all three. I think some guys didn't buy one because they could not get all 3. They therefore didn't sell well and there was a surplus.
Some of the surplus were sold to a dealer "out east." If you are from Indiana "out east" is defined an anywhere east of Ohio.
Overland had a method of disposing of overruns and defective models. 1. clobber each one with a hammer 2. dumpster
I friend of mind had what looked like a half a refrigerator box full of the hammer stricken models. He occasionally unsoldered various pieces and parts that he needed or wanted for projects.
Long time brass collector Tom Marsh who started and ran Overland Models as an astute business man, whether we hobbyist's liked it or not.
Mont Switzer
Mont Switzer From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] on behalf of Andy Carlson [midcentury@...]
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2020 8:45 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: [RealSTMFC] Oriental Models Inc I have a memory which is a bit different than yours.
Some importer had a batch of passenger cars made and the builder built the industry labeled"over runs" which were extra cars beyond the ordered numbers. After several years, these cars were offered to Tony and he bought them for an attractive
price. I bought a few different cars for $60 each back then. Cars were nice and featured cast trucks and not the coined crap which a lot of the Japanese built passenger cars came equipped with. Over runs were a common practice is these earlier days, and the
Train Shop in Santa Clara (San Jose), CA. sold many brass items which were boxed in TS boxes and labeled thusly. I did not know that Samhongsa left business from a suffered fatal law suit. I thought he simply wanted to retire. There were so many "sons of Samhongsa"
Korean builders at the time. Markets are in a state of flux all the time.
-Andy Carlson
Ojai CA
On Friday, December 18, 2020, 12:42:56 PM PST, Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> wrote:
Anthony Wenzel After Oriental he started a little brass importer called AWE - Anthony Wenzel Enterprises - using stolen plans from the Shoreham Shops (around the time when Samhongsa let Lionel use someone else's plans which led to a major lawsuit by MTH that put Sam out of business). AWE did import a nice early welded Pullman box car. On 12/18/2020 11:30 AM, Schuyler Larrabee via groups.io wrote: IIRC (debatable) the owner of OMI was T Wenzel. T was for Tony or Tom, I can’t remember which, though I think Tony.
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Tony Thompson
Mont Switzer wrote: Some of the surplus were sold to a dealer "out east." If you are from Indiana "out east" is defined an anywhere east of Ohio. Ah, yes. When I was a kid in Southern California, a classmate in elementary school was moving away, going "back east." Her family was relocating to Denver. Tony Thompson
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Tom Madden
On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 12:20 PM, Tony Thompson wrote:
Works both ways. When Gail and I lived in New Jersey and were driving to Colorado for our two week vacations, a co-worker told me that his family was going to be vacationing "out west" too. When I asked where, he said Rockford, Illinois. Tom Madden
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I think Armand of The Caboose bought out Oriental's surplus. One year in the late 1990's at the Springfield show in Massachusetts he had a HUGE display of brass "stuff". I bought a beautiful small Great Northern steam tender (without trucks or underframe) for $5 - I thought it might make a nice industrial oil tank. And I bought two Lehigh Valley well flat cars (they were imported by Overland but evidently there were extras) for $40 each - no boxes but the cars were complete. I could have spent the whole day looking through the massive pile of stuff he had, but if you have been to Springfield you know you can't stay in just one spot. :-D Albert Ichelson of Challenger bought out the last of Oriental's model imports and those were the first offerings from Challenger - and the last diesels Challenger would sell for quite a while.
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Charlie Vlk
Tony should be credited with being responsible for the creation of Broadway Limited Imports as well. Together with a Korean builder and QSI, he was behind the New York Central J3a and N&W Class A which were the first BLI locomotives. I don’t know all the details and it isn’t appropriate to go further with the particulars of the changes in leadership in which he separated from the company but he should be credited with morphing the old “Powerhouse” line of Korean production diecast steam locomotives into the factory sound equipped locomotives and freight cars we have today (can’t forget the PRR K7A stock car with cow, pig, chicken, mule sound effects!!!) Charlie Vlk
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Mont Switzer
Charlie,
I cannot forget the PRR K7A with sound either. Beautiful model but the sound in the damned thing drives me nuts.
Mont
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] on behalf of Charlie Vlk [cvlk@...]
Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2020 6:17 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Oriental Models Inc Tony should be credited with being responsible for the creation of Broadway Limited Imports as well. Together with a Korean builder and QSI, he was behind the New York Central J3a and N&W Class A which were the first BLI locomotives. I don’t know all the details and it isn’t appropriate to go further with the particulars of the changes in leadership in which he separated from the company but he should be credited with morphing the old “Powerhouse” line of Korean production diecast steam locomotives into the factory sound equipped locomotives and freight cars we have today (can’t forget the PRR K7A stock car with cow, pig, chicken, mule sound effects!!!) Charlie Vlk
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Now, before we rag on BLI too much, I have to point out that the sound equipped K7a came out (and BLI gave me on as a thank-you for working on the project with them) when my child and the 3 other children who hung out at our house Friday evenings (in the company
of their parents) were all around 5-7 years of age. THEY couldn't get enough of that damned car! So I'm inclined to look at it as an "entry level drug" much like the stupid smoke units which the kids also loved.
Regards,
Bruce Smith
Auburn, AL
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Mont Switzer <MSwitzer@...>
Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2020 7:18 AM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Oriental Models Inc Charlie,
I cannot forget the PRR K7A with sound either. Beautiful model but the sound in the damned thing drives me nuts.
Mont From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] on behalf of Charlie Vlk [cvlk@...]
Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2020 6:17 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Oriental Models Inc Tony should be credited with being responsible for the creation of Broadway Limited Imports as well. Together with a Korean builder and QSI, he was behind the New York Central J3a and N&W Class A which were the first BLI locomotives. I don’t know all the details and it isn’t appropriate to go further with the particulars of the changes in leadership in which he separated from the company but he should be credited with morphing the old “Powerhouse” line of Korean production diecast steam locomotives into the factory sound equipped locomotives and freight cars we have today (can’t forget the PRR K7A stock car with cow, pig, chicken, mule sound effects!!!) Charlie Vlk
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Bud Rindfleisch
I also thought that Mike Wolf worked for Lionel at the time those drawings were made. He left and started MTH and to my way of thinking should have put a lock on those drawings strictly for MTH use, but since they were there when he worked for Lionel, I think it was pretty low for him to sue the bigger Lionel Corp. Just my opinion, right or wrong. Bud Rindfleisch
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