It is a Dumas kit, the build is not difficult if you pay attention to the mechanical aspects and proper ballasting.

You are correct, good eyes! I purchased a Concor 5 car set in GM&O livery about 18 years ago and the dome car was part of that set. The story on this train is interesting. I was originally looking for an ALCO, DL-109 locomotive in New Haven livery. Lifelike, was the only company that produced this model for their Proto 1000 series. However, they did not make the DL-109 in New Haven livery at that time. The model railroad store did have 2 DLs in stock in the GM&O livery and they were beautiful, so I bought them and now I needed to put together a proper passenger train and the Concor set was the starting point for that. Now GM&O did not use dome cars and so I cut away the dome and made a blind plug from basswood. Over the years I have added cars that are appropriate for a long distance passenger train. They are of different manufacturers but work well in the consist. A member of our model railroad club offered to sell me a Proto 1000 ALCO, PB unit in a different livery. Knowing the GM&O did not have any ALCO, PBs on their roster, or DL-109s for that matter ( they bought DL-105s) I thought, why not do an A-B-A lashup on the point. So I gave the PB body to our club Picasso who masterfully painted it. That along with the correct Decoder sound cards the train is now the longest, heaviest and prettiest of my HO trains.

Thank you for your comment. John Whiticar was able to print out the HOBOs original sheer line drawings for me in 1"=1' scale. So the hull is exact though I had to use all the photographs I could find for the superstructure and topside details. The boat is now finished right down to the Hobo image on each side of the flybridge.

@@kevinknoop1790 glad he was able to do this for you!🙂

This particular model kit would be an excellent starting point if you wanted to modify it to resemble the S.S. Chatauguay. The most important part would be to gather as much photo history as possible to insure accuracy.

Nope! This model appears to be of the original Mt.Washington all-wood steamboat that burned to the waterline in the winter of 1939 while it was tied up at Wiers. The current Mount Washington was made from the hull of Chateaugay just before WWII in Lakeport.

The hull is formed fibreglass, the interior hull structure and the superstructure are basswood and birch plystock. The walking beam assembly is all brass.

The model is an older Dumas kit that was started many years ago. It has been through a couple of owners none of whom ever finished the build to the point where she was seaworthy. Mackey had always wanted a sidewheeler and when presented with the the opportunity to aquire this one he did. Mackey and I both worked on getting her properly ballasted which, given her very low freeboard, was a challenge. We also added details such as over 100 passengers, stay lines for the masts and funnel. The whistle chain, 4 life boats and davits, life rafts and blacking out the many windows on the superstructure. The average build time for a model like this averages 3 years.