GHQ PRR L1s kit

[fhmac]

I recently was house cleaning and discovered several of these new in box. What is a fair price for this kit these days?  Thank you.

[mmagliaro]

Understand that this is strictly my own opinion. 
I have seen and bought these for anywhere from $50 to $100.    Given that a GHQ kit on a Kato 2-8-2 is still the best compromise for a good-running, good-looking PRR L1, I think the kit is worth somewhere between those two numbers.  Exactly how much is up to the buyer.

[Chris333]

Weren't there older ones with a big parting line right through the sides of the tender?

[mmagliaro]

Weren't there older ones with a big parting line right through the sides of the tender?

Yes, the ones with the pewter tender bodies have that parting line.  The newer ones had a urethane tender body casting that didn't have that problem.   Back in the day, it was very hard to file or sand out that line without ruining any of the rivet detail.  But nowadays with Archer Rivet decals, if I were building one of the old ones, I'd just go great guns on the tender sides to get rid of that parting line, and then replace any wrecked rivets with the decals.

[randgust]

If you're trying to sell the kit, make sure you include reference to Max's excellent article in the PRRTHS as to how to actually put it together.

It's worth at least as much as the kit, and has been memorialized here: The Keystone (PRRT&HS) - Vol 31, Number 2

Someplace there's an online .PDF of that article, I can't find it.

It's the only way I ever got mine finished.

[fhmac]

Thank you Mr. Randgust for your information lead. I am not familiar with PRRTHS.  But after a computer search I have learned that it is the Pennsylvania Railroad Technical and Historical Society. Also that there is a publication called Keystone.  As for Vol 31 #2
it looks as if I'm out o'luck.  Does Max publish elsewhere?

[reinhardtjh]

Does Max publish elsewhere?

His web site is http://www.maxcowonline.com/ but the L1s article is not there.  I do not believe it is available anywhere except in that particular issue of The Keystone.

[mmagliaro]

Those instructions were part of a review of the GHQ kit that I wrote for the PRRT&HS.   I am not restricted by them from publishing my own work elsewhere, but I don't have my original article text anymore.  The only way I could reproduce it would be to post scans of the PRRT&HS actual Keystone issue, which would be a copyright violation.

Jerry Britton's "Keystone Crossings" website used to have it posted (he got permission from the PRRT&HS), but I cannot find it there anymore.

You can just contact the PRRT&HS and ask them for a back issue.  I'm sure they will help you.

[mmagliaro]

Correction!
I found a thread in the old Atlas Forum wherein I state that I got permission to post the pages on that forum from Chuck Blardone (who was editor of the PRRT&HS's Keystone magazine at the time).  That post is useless now because those photos were hosted by Photobucket, so you cannot see the photos anymore, and I cannot fix the links because the Atlas Forum is readonly

So I'm not going to sweat this anymore.    Here are the pages.   I'm not sure how helpful these really are, but
if they help people build this kit, great!