John, Don, and friends,
A couple of years ago I ragged on AM for an entirely different
reason--the backward (or is it upside down) floor on his boxcar/reefer.
If you build the car as per instructions the brake appliances all face
the wrong way. I had several people 'flame' me, some stating that
Atheran had done there floor backward also and that I shouldn't pick on
AM. Of course, we know that Ron B has copied much of what Atheran has
done, so the mistakes are copied too. My problem is that after selling
thousands of boxcars (and hence paid for the tooling!), couldn't the
floor be redesigned to correct the mistake? I didn't mind adding the
grabs and some of the other detail items, but matching the paint got to
be a chore. So if one rebuilds the underbody, adds the grabs, match the
paint you can have a nice looking car, although the car is somewhat
short in height. I stopped building after 6-8 cars and the Pacific
Rail cars started coming. Not too long after that SHS line of three
boxcars helped to make interesting trains. Now I need to complete my
Kaslo PS-1, Standard Railway's conversion and a Fowler boxcar that is
coming--wow who would have thunk it! all those cars!
Bob Werre
John Picur wrote:
>With all due respect, there is far worse than this that has been produced in
>S Scale in the past five years. For example, when will American Models
>discover that freight cars require certain safety devices, such as
>grabirons? End lettering would be nice, too. And don't get me started on
>their passenger cars -- such heart-warming gaffs as vestibules in the
>baggage sections of combines. That is sheer lunacy. Their level of "scale
>fidelity" was obsolete by the end of the 1970s.
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>Sorry to pick on AM -- I am disappointed with them because they actually
>have several items I would gladly buy if they would redesign them to
>scale -- because all of the so-called scale manufacturers have made
>unsightly errors in some of their products. ... pqr
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