"Stuck in the 1930s"

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LaBelle Passenger car kits 1 -19 are still available from their web site 
www.labellemodels.com.  The company is now located in Cheyenne Wyoming.

Regards,

Kurt  S. Kramke MMR

nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org wrote:

> In a message dated 3/27/05 5:54:13 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
> nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org writes:
>
>     The last wood passenger car (except for 2 business cars) was
>     burned at Roanoke in 1934. To enable this purge, N&W bought a
>     number of cars from PRR in 1934, obviously for branchline service.
>     Wood cars probably disappeared from mainline trains sometime in
>     the 1920's. What models to use? Good question. Unfortunately, the
>     best models which resembled N&W cars were made by Northeastern
>     (Ambroid or LaBelle) and are no longer in production. MDC
>     (Roundhouse) did a couple of series of wood cars in styrene which
>     are still available, but only a few of them are resonably close to
>     the N&W cars. Of course, you could kit-bash or scratchbuild.  Jim
>     Nichols
>
> ===================================================
> LaBelle, Red Ball, and Ambroid wood passenger car kits show up on eBay 
> fairly often.
>  
> Greg Harrod
>
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