Anyone interested in modeling a US Army Depot c 1950 (or a quarry)?

 HO Scale modelers, in the UK, and of HO scale UK railways have been excited by the news that Hornby International are to issue an HO model of the USATC Class 100, known on British Railways as the 'USA Class' Tank in Q1/2013.

Manufactured by Rivarossi (now owned by Hornby) under catalogue No. HR 2477 -  The 2013 catalogue can be downloaded as a PDF from http://www.hornby.de/ftp/Rivarossi_Neuheiten2013.pdf.
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Of the more than 400 made in the USA from 1942, more than three hundred S100's were shipped to the UK during WWII for use in the UK, Europe, North Africa and beyond.  More than 100 still remain, in museums and in preservation, some in the USA, several in the UK.

The model is to the HO scale, rather than the normal UK 00 scale and is currently being offered in European model shops for €100 ($133 approx) http://www.etendard-modelisme.com/product.php?id_product=1505
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Using the Surviving Steam Locomotives web page search -  http://www.steamlocomotive.com/lists/searchdb.php?str=USATC&country=USA- I found several in the USA and 1 in Canada including one that is operational in Richmond VA as well as the Ex US Army 5001 from Watsonville CA - Granite Rock No 10 at Sacramento. (http://www.graniterock.com/about_us/museum/steam_engines.html) They were apparently used in a number of other US Army depot's throughout the USA.

These web pages provide more information

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USATC_S100_Class

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR_USA_class
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YouTube

Happy modeling

Norman