Uncle Will of Full Throttle will be at London Bridge Toys in Emmaus, Pennsylvania on Satuday July 12 between 8:00 am and 4m. He will showing some of us upcoming releases too.
I would............. I wish I could, cause I would make it a point to visit London Bridge. Been wanting to meet Uncle Will for a few years now. Have a great time!!!! Oh, and please keep us informed of the NEW that Will has to show!!! Hobo Tim
Uncle Will be releasing a special collectors set on Saturday. The release is supposed to be fantastic. As well as some other news on new things coming.
Uncle Will at London Bridge and Blue Coal Since JD (Joe Orach)was unable to attend, I figured that I would post. Dean Wright (Uncle Will) spent several hours at London Bridge on Saturday. In addition to giving us a preview of his August hopper release, he also shared the story of his (and Bill Hay's) research on this project. He also spoke of future releases and life after Micro-trains trucks and couplers. Instead of spending a lot of time describing the August release, I have attached a photo of the box insert, as well as a picture of two of the cars. The full four car set includes RDG, CNJ, NH and DLW road numbers. In the lower right hand corner of the picture of Uncle Will, two more future ribside two bays can barely be seen. They are the BN and the Virginian. While some of his plans have been delayed by having to solve the coupler and truck issue, Uncle Will's plans for Full Throttle have not slowed down. The next couple of years should be quite exciting. In addition to his existing car types, there are more (undisclosed at this time) on the way. Also in attendance were, Ron Ruddell, John Sullivan, Bob Olson, Don Zelek, Dean Stoki, Paul Lipiarski, Sam Berliner III, Nick Nolfa and others whos names escape me. It was a great day of story telling by some true icons of Z scale. Dan S.
Joe, Take a look at these links. Note the logo on the side of the breaker on the first link! Blue Coal Ashley / Huber Breaker (Blue Coal) History - Abandoned Photography : opacity.us Blue Coal, Pink Coal - TIME Google 'blue coal'. You will find a ton of links and information. Rob
Hay Brothers will be releasing a limited number of these Blue Coal Loads in singles and 6-packs for Z modelers that desire to build longer trains of Blue Coal using the earlier releases (and future releases too) from Full Throttle.
Thanks for the links Rob some interesting reading. I wonder if anybody ever did the "pink" coal wash. There is a fantasy scheme just waiting to be done!
