Red Caboose killer-was McKean-Accurail box car (
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Andy Carlson
Bill told me that the economic hit the on-the-ropes Red Caboose got was from the money spent upgrading the former Front Range 40' box cars. The sales were way below expectations and I would wager that parts for these cars still lanquish in Intermountain's storage. Can't blame all of RC's problems on the FR boxcars though, a lot of the blame falls onto the 57' mechanical PFE Reefer, the R-70-15. Nice car with truck problems, this project was a bullet to the heart for RC. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA
On Sunday, July 17, 2022 at 11:16:29 AM PDT, Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> wrote:
Rich
Yet ANOTHER way is to use the much improved Front Range 4070 box car kits from Red Caboose, kit # RC-8700. These have vastly improved roofs, doors, underframes, ladders, you name it. The tooling is now owned by Intermountain, but I don't know if they still offer these fine box car models. :-) On 7/17/2022 1:27 PM, Richard Remiarz wrote:
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Andy
OMG it wasn't the trucks so much as the wheel sets! I'm fairly sure those also were a Front Range legacy, since I have some Front Range kits with those horrible metal wheel trucks (which were in a small "kit" package in the car kit that you had to assemble - or just throw out). However, the box cars were followed by the coil gondolas (STMFC folks may be unaware) which were fabulous models, and sold very well as far as I know. Also didn't the Red Caboose Harriman stock cars come out after the box cars as well? I think Bill went to work for Intermountain so I guess it all worked out in the end. :-) Tim On 7/17/2022 5:08 PM, Andy Carlson wrote:
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Andy Carlson
Bill did not own Red Caboose. He ran it for a non-involved owner whose directions to Bill was simply "don't lose money". When that rule came across these losses RC was bleeding, the decision to cut bait resulted in the sell of RC to Intermountain. Bill went to work for awhile as a sales person at IM until his decision to retire and move to Crescent City, CA. It was hot today, 97 degrees I am told. I spent most of the day indoors, other than the earlier bike ride to the farmers market, done before it got too hot. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA
On Sunday, July 17, 2022 at 03:24:13 PM PDT, Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> wrote:
Andy
OMG it wasn't the trucks so much as the wheel sets! I'm fairly sure those also were a Front Range legacy, since I have some Front Range kits with those horrible metal wheel trucks (which were in a small "kit" package in the car kit that you had to assemble - or just throw out). However, the box cars were followed by the coil gondolas (STMFC folks may be unaware) which were fabulous models, and sold very well as far as I know. Also didn't the Red Caboose Harriman stock cars come out after the box cars as well? I think Bill went to work for Intermountain so I guess it all worked out in the end. :-) Tim On 7/17/2022 5:08 PM, Andy Carlson wrote: Bill told me that the economic hit the
on-the-ropes Red Caboose got was from the money spent
upgrading the former Front Range 40' box cars. The sales
were way below expectations and I would wager that parts for
these cars still lanquish in Intermountain's storage. Can't
blame all of RC's problems on the FR boxcars though, a lot
of the blame falls onto the 57' mechanical PFE Reefer, the
R-70-15. Nice car with truck problems, this project was a
bullet to the heart for RC.
-Andy Carlson
Ojai CA
On Sunday,
July 17, 2022 at 11:16:29 AM PDT, Tim O'Connor
<timboconnor@...> wrote:
Rich
Yet ANOTHER way is to use the much improved Front Range 4070 box car kits from Red Caboose, kit # RC-8700. These have vastly improved roofs, doors, underframes, ladders, you name it. The tooling is now owned by Intermountain, but I don't know if they still offer these fine box car models. :-) On 7/17/2022 1:27 PM, Richard Remiarz wrote:
-- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts |
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