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Old 12-27-2007, 08:55 PM
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Ross Winans had already made a lot of money off the Russians, building a railroad system for them in the 1850's. It's what enabled him and his sons to indulge their own hobby of building 1:1 scale, live-steam ship models

Incidentally, I have a model of the Winans family's last effort on the subject of cigar-ships available as a 1/250 scale model on my website, www.waldenmodels.com

Check it out!

Cheers,

Oliver

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