dileTTante wrote: I think what sparked current interest in TT was TTNut and Conductor's efforts.
Terry
I think TTnut is
NOW the go-to place for North American TT... but there were sparks of life before 2009.
Below is the 25th Anniversary Edition of the TT-Empire... with a terse year by year chronology from 1982 to 2007. As far as I can determine... the HP Ten Wheeler 4-6-0 (this thread) and the FED Spartan 4-4-0 (HOn3 - gauged for TT) were the only new production NA engines for TT between the late 1960s and 1999. The other offers were re-issued Kemtron or HP (i.e. Allegheny Models) or never-realized promises (~ RailTech). The new millennium brought the first resin-cast cars (PVM, CER, Exquisite, etc...) and the German and PVM power chassis for the Lionel die-cast.
I am just trying to put the history into perspective....