Gerald et. al.,
I wonder too. It seems like a false economy to produce a foobie, but they must be counting on the legion of modelers who don’t know and don’t care.
Intermountain can’t seem to get locomotive numbers right, either. Their CB&Q FT ABBA sets and ATSF F-7 ABBA sets (catwhisker scheme) are both numbered wrong. I let them know about both errors and I got the same canned response I got for the gondola.
Intermountain is releasing a lot of rolling stock, and it would be an enormous undertaking to vet everything with ‘experts’, so I guess they are counting on total sales volume to sustain them, despite the numerous errors. It’s like they are interpreting paint colors from black and white photos, and we all know how dangerous and deceptive that can be, don’t we Charlie?
Nelson Moyer
From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2014 1:01 PM
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Subject: RE: [CBQ] Re: Intermountain USRA Gondolas with RED Heralds?!
Nelson & group (& tks Nelson for following up w/Intermountain!)
This begs the question given the facts that a) our Society dates back to 1976, b) has a # of mbrs who have worked or consulted in the model industry, c) is reasonably well publicized on the Internet & in the model & railfan press & d) has worked well with major model mfgs, so WHY in heck did Intermountain NOT contact BRHS before finalizing the model as to details, lettering scheme, etc? Do we have contacts with them?? Gerald
