List; Hi, I'm brand new to this list, live in Lake Oswego, OR, do not have a
home layout, but run at my club. We have a permanent layout at our clubhouse,
and a very large, modular traveling "show."
I'm on a couple of other RR modeling chat sites. (NP, SP&S, GN and of course,
MILW.)
I work part-time at Whistle Stop Trains in Portland, OR and there has been
some discussion about putting together a four car "BN predecessor" kit, to be
sold at our various conventions, on line, and at the store's web site and at
the retail store.
The kit would include one car each from the GN, NP, SP&S and the Q.
Charley at Whistle Stop has done a really great job with the SP&S special run
cars. Hopefully you have seen some of them.
I have spoken with him about this idea and the feed back I got was "we need
to do something really nice, and also unique, something that hasn't been done
before"
The thinking is Intermountain or Red Caboose, or possibly Branchline. Not
museum quality, but certainly very nice models. If any of you have seen the
SP&S cars, you will know what I mean. He would front all of the setup and
production costs and will donate $1.00 to each of the four historical
societies for each "kit" sold. We are shooting for a retail price of
approximately $65.00.
What we need from each of the RR modeling "chat groups" is a feel for what
kind of car they would like to see produced, as in a particular box car, or a
specific run of chip cars, that kind of thing. He also said "we need a
commitment from about 50 people that they would like to see this thing done
before we proceed." At the NP site, we now have approximately 20.
We are just in the "what -- if" stage right now, so I would appreciate any
and all feed back.
Please reply to:
Don Pilgrim
Lake Oswego, OR
dpmilwroad@a...
DSPproducts.com
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