Southern Heritage Models is pleased to
offer this HO Scale kit of the Babcock Coal & Coke Company tipple. This tipple was built in 1926 by the Kanawha
Manufacturing Company in Sewell, WV. Sewell was located on the New River, along
the C&O Railway main line between Thurmond and Fayette. Sewell served as a junction point between the
Manns Creek Railway, a 3’ narrow gauge railroad which brought coal down the
mountain from Clifftop and lumber from Landisburg, Between the tipple and the river
there were 193 coke ovens that were in operation until 1956. The town lasted about a decade and a half
after the ovens shut down, and the last resident moved out in 1973.
This kit has a footprint of about 8” X
14”. This kit contains 620 laser-cut
parts, 42 3D printed parts, and 240 Tichy NBWs (Nut-Bolt-Washers). This is a limited edition series. There will only be 250 of these made and each
kit is numbered with a Certificate of Authenticity.