Mark, We recently had a discussion on this group about lightweight passenger car roof stock, so I won't rehash that. But, for my purposes, I use Northeastern roofstock (No longer made), and try to buy up what stock I can find whenever and wherever. In the photo section you can see one of my scratchbulit corrugated side cars with the NE roof section. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/photos/album/847338934/pic/list The remainder of the car is styrene. What I like about the wood roof section is that it is rigid and can be removed for access to the interior, something that you can't do with the American Models bodies. Someone on the list suggested that the NE roof stock be reissued either thru Northeastern or another moulding manufacturer. Now if that were to occur, resin castings could be made for the ends and floor, and then you're in business. The American Models trucks are not bad once you add the correct brake cylinder castings.
I think the market is there. Right now the AM smoothside cars are going for an average of $60 on ebay, and then you have to add about another $60 worth of detail parts. So if you had a rather complete kit that could be railroad specific by offering a variety of car sides, $150 wouldn't be unreasonable. Bob On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Thomas Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ________________________________ > > A passenger car kit, especially one that offered a basic core with the > purchaser's selection of specific prototype sides, or of sides that are > close to prototype. Walthers has done a very good job of creating railroad > specific passener cars in HO, offering the GN Empire Builder cars, Milwaukee > Road Twin Cities Hiawatha cars, and most recently the second NYC streamlined > Twentieth Century. > > It would seem that HO could also profit from a basic core kit with railroad > specific sides, roof type, and window arrangement. I have heard that the NYC > cars are priced in the low sixty Dollar range and that for an HO car. > > Our problem in S is that no core exists. Mark, do you have a ballpark > figure of what such a car kit would be? It certainly is an intriguing > proposition. > > Tom > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
