Charlie and group-
You know Jim's Junction will be doing it's part to blow those 'Q'
Business Cars off the shelves. I might buy a dozen just for myself if it
will help Kato with their decision to do the N scale Budd cars in HO!!!!
FYI- Walthers sold out of the Santa Fe Budd Coaches and 10-6 Sleepers within
the first week of their releases and I am getting emails here in Montana
from people looking for them. The passenger car market is starved for good
quality prototypical rolling stock and if the car meets the standards for
the price- people are going to buy them. I realize you can't compare brass
passenger cars to plastic ones as far as production quantities and the
differences in how they are produced- I was just trying to make a point with
what I just stated above about model railroaders being willing to pay more
if the quality, attention to detail and scale fidelity is upheld. I used to
think the Con-Cor Budd Domes were a decent looking car if you put a little
work into them until I sat a Walthers Budd Coach next to one on the layout!
Jeez- the Con-Cor car looked totally clunky! What a thumbs up for Walthers
and what a shame for my Con-Cor Budd cars. I predict a big influx of used
Con-Cor passenger cars on Ebay. One other observation- I have a few of the
earlier released IHC 'Crusader' Budd cars and they don't look half bad next
to the Walthers cars. Somebody did some homework with the fineness of the
fluting etc., about 10 years ago, with these IHC cars and I was pleasantly
surprised.
John @ Jim's Junction
> From: "Charlie Vlk" <charlie@k...>
> Reply-To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 08:25:18 -0500
> To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: RE: [BRHSlist] Scale
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> Jim-
> With brass production runs in the 50's and 100's the popularity of a car at
> $400 or a locomotive at $2000, brass is no indication at all of the
> advisability of cutting molds for an injection molded product.
> The fact that Walthers is the only "big" manufacturer to venture into the
> realm of passenger cars (the IHC foray does not count) is a clue. Atlas,
> and LifeLike (who has been cranking out passenger locomotives till the cows
> come home and is not convinced there is any market for passenger cars!!!)
> have not made any commitment to passenger cars. Bachmann has never added to
> their Santa Fe full dome or single heavyweight Pullman car. We'll see if
> Walthers is happy with the sales on their cars; IMHO they are well
> engineered and a very interesting concept, but they need sales of their cars
> if they are ever to get to everyone's favorite prototypes.
> There should be a good market for passenger cars in all scales; freight cars
> are being covered very well indeed. Within the last 15 years we have gone
> from having a generic Athearn 40' boxcar to (how many??) exact reproductions
> of specific prototypes from a bunch of new, quality manufacturers.
> I think passenger car modeling is ripe for expansion, but the knowledge base
> has to be expanded. There have been few good articles on passenger cars and
> the average model railroader does not understand them at all (still
> insisting on the dome car to go along with his Pennsy train) or worrying
> about getting "stuck" with an extra baggage car.
> I hope that the $60-70 business car blows off the shelves. We have good
> data on all aspects the market from the N Scale version, so it should be a
> fair test of the Premium Plastic market in HO.
> We'll see...
> Charlie
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