BLI CF was Re: N&W RPOs M1

[NW Modeling List]

Put me down for three of those too.
David Baker

On Sat, Aug 3, 2024, 6:02 PM NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> On 8/3/2024 2:31 PM, NW Modeling List wrote:
>
> (snip)
>
> This one never made sense to me. BLI knows how many Y6b's they sell, and
> J's. And H2a's. All of this are always sold out, and highly desired on eBay
> after the initial deliveries. So it's hard to believe they are barely
> selling enough to make them profitable. How could a CF have been a hard
> decision to make, considering the rest of their N&W offerings?
> (snip)
>
>
> Speculation from the WV mountain top . . .
>
> I'm not sure when it was announced and cancelled, but it might have been
> due to a tooling cost issue.  For a while there, the tooling costs were
> going way up.
>
> Granted the H2a project sold well, but the number of coal cars vs cabeese
> on a layout is what . . .  10:1     15:1    maybe  25:1?
>
> Amortizing higher tooling costs over a shorter run might have put it in a
> price range where the average modeler would have balked.
>
> Perhaps the Society could approach BLI and see what their logic was then,
> and if it could be done now.
>
> There are always a ton of reasons for "doing or not doing" a project.
>
> Take care
> Bill
>
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