Rich,
What did you think of the announcement by Walthers that they are going to do
Budd cars in HO? Did they have samples available for view?
Regards,
John Lewis
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From: <rgortowski@a...>
To: <BRHSlist@egroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 11:37 PM
Subject: [BRHSlist] Chicago Hobby Show
> Folks,
>
> I attended the Hobby show in Rosemont today. I saw many new and
interesting
> things that are coming. A few things of note:
>
> I saw the Stewart VO1000's painted in the CB&Q early Blackbird scheme
(yellow
> and red sill stripe, not diagonal white). It looks outstanding and ran
very
> smoothly - . The drive is by Ajin). He is only painting the squared
walkway
> sheetmetal for Q (he said he has never seen a curved one for the Q -
though I
> have many pictures of them this way). You can build it with one stack, 4
> small stacks, or four large stacks. This model will be special for those
of
> us who have been waiting years for this!
>
> I saw the test shot on the Branchline REA 6100 series welded reefers.
These
> 500 cars were built in 1947 and were used extensively for produce and dry
> express goods as well. Branchline will be doing these cars in 5 paint
> schemes (including the ACL purple and silver!) The test shot I saw was
> outstanding. I will be selling my brass Challenger models and waiting for
> these. They say that there are some corrections and are hoping for early
> next year.
>
> Also from Branchline is the news that they are going full steam ahead on
the
> 8-1-2, the 10-1-2, and the Pullman coach cars they have been advertised.
It
> has gone slowly to this point, and there were no test shots to see. Of
> particular interest to me was they will then do a 12-1 air conditioned
> sleeper and then another 3 or 4 cars "that they are not at liberty to
> disclose". Sure hope one of them is a common baggage car!
>
> I saw Overland's pilot models of the Bi-Levels and power cars. They are
> basically a re-run of the earlier models with some tweaking and interiors.
> (buy 'em by the sack! - Oh, wait - that's White Castle)
>
> Railway Classics (formerly Shoreham Shops) had both the green and the
silver
> Havelock baggage car with the shadow striping on display. After the long
> wait, these cars will be great.
>
> Fred Hill said that Coach Yard will definately be doing the CB&Q, D&RGW,
and
> WP's Exposition Flyer in brass. It's a matter of picking which types of
cars
> to include (as it was a real dog's breakfast from a day-to-day consist, as
I
> am told)
>
> All in all, a good day!
>
> Rich Gortowski
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