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Winton's engineering data has been collected and published as [[Winton Brown Engineering Data]].
Winton's engineering data has been collected and published as [[Winton Brown Engineering Data]].
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File:Catalog-cover.jpg|Cover from Winton Brown Catalog circa 1960
File:Winton-and-wife.jpg|Winton Brown and his wife des Neige
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File:Winton Locomotive Specs from Catalog circa1960.jpg
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== HO Scale Catalog ==
== HO Scale Catalog ==

Revision as of 22:46, 26 March 2013


Winton Brown founded the Winton Locomotive Works Company in Danville, California in the early 1960's. Winton was a mechanical engineer by trade. He brought as set of finely honed engineering skills to the company, designing his locomotives for maximum strength, maximum weight on the drivers and easy, modular construction.

The Winton catalog included a section simply entitled “Engineering Notes”. Behind that humble title lay 17 pages of notes, drawings, formulas and tables essential for designing and building model steam locomotives. In the 1960's, if you were building a loco from scratch which wasn't adaptable from a Little Engines design the Winton catalog engineering section was considered the bible and many used it to design parts of their locos, especially boilers.

Winton's engineering data has been collected and published as Winton Brown Engineering Data.

HO Scale Catalog

Winton once offered an all brass HO articulated kit, circa 1956

this is a 6-page list of castings and sample pictures.

Winton HO Brass Articulated Catalog, 6-pages, circa 1956