And covered hoppers and tank cars were specifically exempted from the billboard ban. Scott Chatfield

On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 01:19 PM, Andy Carlson wrote: Charlie, I can see that as an industry consultant that you may believe packaging kits is more expensive than making RTR cars. That is so

No new ones after 1934, old ones banned from interchange in 1937 (or was it 1938?), See the Billboard Reefer book by Hendrickson and Kaminski. Tony Thompson

There is one simple answer. Very few people buy kits. If the demand was high and the companies made a profit, there would be kits. Jerry Michels

Gary Ray wrote: “Does anyone know the date of the banning? Also, how long were billboard cars allowed to run - was it just until they needed repainting? If memory serves me right, that would

Guy Wilber already answered this earlier in the thread. Brian J. Carlson

Does anyone know the date of the banning? Also, how long were billboard cars allowed to run - was it just until they needed repainting? If memory serves me right, that would be about 7 years. Gary

Thanks So Much John: Super photo! Just what I needed. I just learned from this that the attachments for the end grabs are below the grab and not above as are the kit parts. Somewhere down the road

Charlie, I can see that as an industry consultant that you may believe packaging kits is more expensive than making RTR cars. That is so wrong--anyone who has watched Rapidos' video visits to their

Allen Cain wrote: Always remember that the primary issue addressed by the “ban” on billboard schemes was the provision by the leasing company of free advertising paint schemes for their lessees.

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This subject comes up every so often…..and the answer is not going to be any different. Packaging kits, especially nowadays with products with many discrete add-on parts of differing media, is

Allen, The banning of billboard paint schemes was based upon "equal access" to advertising. Billboard companies felt/argued that the moving billboards of the RR cars were "unfail competition" not

Brian, PM me about some Branchline kits I'd be willing to part with. I can't extract a valid email address for you from this post. Scott Haycock Modeling Tarheel country

Bob, The car in question was built by Pullman-Standard in May 1953 as part of a 75-car order in lot 8117, and sold to owner North American Car Company in series NAHX 30500-30574. These cars were

It’s quite simple. The other hobbies you mention the hobby is building the model. Sometimes people will build dioramas for the models but that’s about it. Model railroading on the other hand the

It is SOP with model railroad manufacturers. I don’t understand it at all as the other injected plastic hobbies are doing very nicely producing kits. Why do the plastic car, aircraft, armor and ship

I am looking for a clear photo of the “B” end of a Santa Fe Ft-V flat car. In particular I am looking at the drop[ brake staff mechanism. The ph in the Santa Fe freight car book is a bit

After decades of my getting Intermountain kits with nearly 100% fill rates, around 2010 the out of stock non-shipped kits started increasing for my purchases. This continued getting weaker until about

 Allen Cain wrote: “Help me out here. I thought that “billboard” paint schemes where outlawed well before the 1953 date on this car. If I am mistaken, please educate me.” The