<snip> One reason for bringing this up again is that you no longer can get the
AB-300 castings and you can still get the 359's. For those who are still adding
these cars to their consists this give another option.
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Just because something goes off the market does *not* mean it is no longer
available. At a train show, I bought 6 Walthers passenger interiors over 15
years after they had left the catalogue . . . and in the mid-nineties, at a
"going out of business" hobby shop sale, I picked up a cast-metal transformer
load (for 25 cents) which was marked "M. Dale Newton Co. Red Ball". I believe
Howell Day bought Red Ball about 40 years earlier . . . At another hobby shop
toward the end of the '90s, in one of the parts bins, was a rubber-banded batch
(about a dozen) of Mantua stamped metal couplers.
Keep looking around - stuff doesn't immediately disappear from the market!
Marshall
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