Roger,
I don't want to keep this alive, but in the 60s you didn't have any choice but
to build kits, unless you were converting Flyer. And then there was the time
there were no scale wheels available. Let's face it, we're talking about now
not 30, 40, or 50 years ago. Very few model railroaders (percentage wise)
build car and locomotive kits today in any scale. Those few that do care very
much about quality, and yes, that generally means fidelity to scale including
wheels.
Even if you Hi-Rail guys rework a SMMW kit to meet your needs, it's a heck of a
lot easier than scratch-builing.
Ed Kozlowsky
Sanford, Maine
sscale.org
