Dave, The Minn. HIst. Soc. has roll upon roll of just such freight car drawings for GN and NP. The typical set of drawings for a freight car built circa 1950 was 125 sheets or thereabouts. Many of

Custom built resin kits typically sell for between $100-200 each, including the cost of the kit. Maybe some of the custom builders could give us an idea of what imported RTR resin might sell for.

I don't know the current situation, but a couple of years ago I was told (by a knowledgeable MRIA member) that some of the "players" in U.S. model manufacturing did send some resin kits to China for

Ted's web site states that he is backing out of resin and concentrating on media. I ordered two of his kits in October 2010, and he tells me he may or may not be able to deliver them. For all intents

Nelson Moyer wrote That sounds odd, since Martin told me years ago that he typically sold about 300 of each kit, and I know for a fact he has produced thousands of identical, individual parts such as

Nelson Moyer wrote: Correct. Not correct. I did all the UTLX X-3 tank shells for Sunshine, and am now doing the GATC circumferential course tank shells. Frank did all the masters, four different

Nelson Moyer says: Now that Speedwich and Westerfield have withdrawn from the resin Obviously, Westerfield is retiring. However, I'm not aware that Ted Culotta [ Speedwitch ] has withdrawn from resin

I just got back from the BRHS spring meet in Batavia where Frank Hodina gave a clinic on producing and building resin kits. As I recall (and my memory is fallible), he stated that the life expectancy

Tom, Do you happen to know what prevents companies from producing RTR resin cars (cast & assembled in China or India)? Would the cost be prohibitively high? It seems that one-piece

Interesting, I had no idea about the medallions. Oddly enough before reading these posts, I saw a clip from the 1933 film Wild Boys Of The Road where a bunch of boys disembark from empty reefers and a

<< So YOU'RE the guy who caused the plastic ones to be produced. It just takes significant investment in an alternative . . . >> Dabney's law in action . . . Steve Haas Snoqualmie, WA

I thought so at first but at a SF convention they stated and I believe the caboose is "all new tooling". I never did check to make sure this was true. Jon Miller For me time stopped in

Jared Harper wrote: So YOU'RE the guy who caused the plastic ones to be produced. It just takes significant investment in an alternative . . . Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press,

Schuyler, I am pulling Richard's leg. But based upon his statement that we would never have Santa Fe stock cars in plastic I went out and bought ten from Sunshine and more from Westerfield. Then. .

Jon Miller wrote: I think the Caswell preceeded the stock cars but might be mis-remembering. And isn't the caboose a rework of the Centralia Car Shops modernized Santa Fe steel caboose? If you start

Jon Miller wrote: I thought the caboose was a Centralia Car Shops project, with IM doing production. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA

But didn't IM produce both the Caswell and the caboose after the stock cars?? I know the caboose was after the stock car but I forget when the Caswell was first sold. Maybe the

Thanks everyone. What I'd like to find are engineering drawings... most anything on freight cars that has a lot of dimensional data -- much more than the small folio drawings. Any of you who have

Then one can only hope that it is a far better model than Intermountain's really poor GPEX 6,000 gal. milk tank car. These cars, incidentally, were carried in both freight and passenger trains even

Bill's experience is much more succcessful than mine at MHS or anywhere else. This is due to my lack of electronic equipment and knowledge of how to work with the staff, etc. However, the MHS is very