So.... is it possible to get some manufacturer to produce a model of a certain prototype by convincing him that you are tooling up such a model yourself? In that case, I'm right in the middle of tooling for a Milwaukee Road Rib Side caboose. Pre-oil furnace. ;>
Phil Buchwald
--- In STMFC@yahoogroups.com, timboconnor@c... wrote: Long ago and
far away an independent toolmaker had done wonderful tooling for a PFE R-40-23 reefer but a vendor found out about it and rushed a kit into production.... and that pretty much killed off that toolmaker's biz from what I heard. (I may have left out few salient details.)