N&W caboose project Spring Mills Depot status

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Just a thought, then how did SMD get past the charges? What did they do
that BLI didn't do of think of!
Larry Brown
I am building 3 of the AMB cabooses.

On Tue, Apr 19, 2022, 4:27 PM NW Modeling List via NW-Modeling-List <
nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

> I was speaking to the owner of Broadway Limited about an M and other N & W
> engines and he stated the following. I Quote Here! Until NS gets their $%&
> Together and end the crazy charge they have imposed for doing and NS or N &
> W Engine Broadway will not be doing anything new. This is a crappy
> situation.
> Ray Russell Sr
>
> In a message dated 4/15/2022 6:37:30 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org writes:
>
>
> Broadway Limited announced a CF about 10 years ago, but it was cancelled.
> I can't remember if it was due to lack of orders or if it was caught up in
> some of those tooling theft lawsuits.
>
> I have to believe that an N&W CF would sell at least as well as a Missabe
> or C&O wood caboose like Walthers has produced.  Of course, N&W would seem
> to be an obvious choice for Athearn Genesis GP9's, but other than one run
> of Redbirds and some ex-NKP or Wabash units, I don't think they've done
> any.  Manufacturers often seem to have a "playlist", and N&W is seldom on
> it.  How else do you explain SP and UP 4-8-2's, PRR decapods and atlantics,
> and C&O streamlined hudsons, but no N&W M, S1/S1a, or streamlined 4-8-2?
>
> Marty Flick
>
>
>
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>
> Anybody got any guesses why no model manufacturer hasn't offered a
> reasonably accurate, plastic, steam-era N&W caboose in the past 50
> years?
>
> Seems like they would only sell about a 1000 of them in the first year.
>
> I can't even remember how many SMD cabs I reserved. But it was/is a lot.
>
> John Garner, Newport VA
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