john & group:
unfortunately, the production records of prs, were disposed of when
the business was sold to
dph,way back when, the only way you can determine what was made, is
if you have copies of the old sales fliers, that john produced, and
they are even becoming scarce, i would hope, that
one of john's larger dealers, has kept some of them i.e. tom hawley,
jeff wilson, or whistle stop in
san diego, a word to the wise before you start calling the whistle
stop in san diego is a "closet"
operation, the owner actually owns the train store, but does not
stock "s" in the store, he operates the "s" scale out of his house,
if you have access to the old fliers you can pretty much
deduce what and when john produced
good luck
mel perry
On Aug 23, 2012, at 4:29 AM, John Degnan wrote:
While we're on the topic of PRS kits... Sherman, hit the WAY BACK
button for me...
A number of years back... Sep 4, 2003 to be exact... I posted about
two, specific PRS kits that I was looking for, yet NOBODY seemed to
have any knowledge of. There were FOUR 40' Double Door cars
released in the SEABOARD scheme... two of which I had located and
bought - kits # B354.3 (road # 223315) and B354.4 (road # 23318).
The other two, which were (obviously) the first two ever done
(deduced from the kit numbering methodology - 3 and 4 generally
comes after 1 and 2) - kits # B354.1 and B354.2 were, it seemed,
nowhere to be found on the planet. I found out a year or so later
that the road number for these two kits were (supposedly) 23307
(for kit B354.1) and 23312 (for kit # B354.2). I have long since
forgotten where or from whom I got that info, but the road
numbering seems to fall inline with the numbering of the second
two, so I assume it is right.
Here are some photos of the two kits I WAS able to find :
http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/MODELS/PacificRailShops-
B-354.3-SAL23315.jpg
http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/MODELS/PacificRailShopsB-354.4-
SAL23318.jpg
Now... just a hair less than 2 weeks shy of 9 YEARS later... I am
STILL trying to determine the validity of this information AND to
locate one of each of these kits (B354.1 and B354.2).
Anyone know where I can find these kits?
John Degnan
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