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WORKING ON THE RAILROAD…THE LAST WORD effective August 20, 2010 We will be closed most of the month of September. 800 phone orders will be accepted in Sept for shipment on reopening. Information questions by email will be answered upon return. Our contracted 800 order taking service cannot give info so please don’t run up our 800 phone bill unless you really do have an order to place. The boss has been experiencing major health issues this spring and summer. He’s stabilized but faces more tests,surgery etc in coming months. We all need to just relax a bit so we will appreciate your patience, understanding and prayers. (and orders) SCROLL THIS PAGE FOR RECENT UPDATES SUPPLEMENTING OUR MANY INFORMATION LOADED PAGES AND WEB SPECIALS ONLY FOUND HERE.The YARDSALE and LTD pages of our website are updated in detail every 3-6 weeks. This page gives a summary of the LTD updates. Latest updates of our other pages are found here and supersede prices, availability etc found on those pages. Reference/archive page is just that. Prices and availability noted there should be considered obsolete. This information super-cedes any other dates, prices or specifications published or posted on our website pages. These updates may not yet appear on the pages. Prices are subject to change without notice. If you are an experienced CAD person and want some moonlighting within the Fort Wayne IN region, we could use your help. NOT A FULL TIME JOB , NOT HIGH DOLLAR, please *CURRENT WEB SPECIALS* are ONLY listed HERE. *BUILDING A US MADE KIT IS MORE STIMULATING THAN STACKING A CHINESE BOX ON THE SHELF. VOTE FOR THESE STIMULUS OFFERS while they last!* INDEPENDENCE DAY ?? Model Railroad Warehouse is one of the 6 or 7 established US companies continuing to produce injection molded styrene model railroad kits in the United States. While market conditions may require delays in rerunning some kits, these firms are not at the mercy of recent movements in China that are forcing importers to discontinue production of many items & built ups of special low volume items, delaying their schedules, causing reconsideration of new projects as Oriental tool costs skyrocket, shipping container considerations etc. Unfortunately we have our own unique problems here too but we are proudly making kits in the USA as are the companies featured on our website( Cannonball, Red Ball Signature, Tichy, Oregon, City Classics, Bethlehem) and the fine US kit lines that we do ot carry: Accurail, San Juan, Grandt, Pikestuff, and Intermountain. HO ON SALE TILL SEPTEMBER28 FOR SHIPMENT WHEN WE REOPEN OCTOBER Checks cashed/cards charged when we reopen. 800 phone orders accepted. Tichy Wood Type Ore Car Kit (2cars)#293-4012 reg $14.50 sale price $12.98 Tichy Brownhoist Wreck Crane #293-4010 reg $28.50 sale price $24.98 Tichy 400T Coaling Tower #293-7010 reg $135 sale Price $110 Tichy Steel RR Water Tank #293-7012 reg $29.50 sale price $24 Tichy Oil/Gas Tank #293-7013 reg $15 sale Price $12 Central Valley Girder Bridge #210-1903 reg $14.95 sale price $12.98 Oregon Rail 3 Light US&S Signal #538-115 reg $10.95 sale price $9.98 Oregon Rail 2 Light US&S Signal #538-114 reg $9.95 sale price $8.98 Oregon Rail 2 Track Signal Bridge either US&S or PRR reg $27.98 sale price $24.95 Oregon Rail 4 Track Signal Bridge either US&S or PRR-specify $29.98 sale price $25.95 Signature Series REA Express Boxcar (converted troop) reg $39.95 sale price $27.95 Signature Serries D&RGW Dynamometer Car reg $44.95 and a FREE decal. Shopping cart orders will be charged regular price by paypal and we will refund the savings Phone orders-specify September Sale Walthers Flyer prices are honored during their sale period on all Tichy, Central Valley and Oregon Rail items in the flyer. *These LIMITED RUNS are RUNNING OUT August 20, 2010* The 75^th Anniversary Red Ball passenger car kits are nearly sold out. The Cannonball Car Shops PRR 50 foot Depressed Center Flat car kits are at “the bottom of the barrel” –about a dozen left. LTD Series CNJ Freight decals have sold out. B&O wagon top decals nearly sold out. Indiana Service Corp #817 metal part set nearly sold out in O scale Reservations will determine rerun status. Signature Series M&StL express is sold out; B&M RPO is sold out; B&M 4 door Express one left. Reservations will determine rerun status STEWART and EASTERN CAR : The ONLY items we have remaining in stock are listed on our YARDSALE page. Please do not order from the Archived Information page. *QUICK CHECK of LATEST UPDATES are here for our various website pages* *Tichy—new parts arrived in June.* *OREGON RAIL Signal Bridges LONG AWAITED* Arrived in June. See our web specials (above) for prices good on orders received during August. Checks cashed/cards charged when we reopen and ship in October. *LTD SERIES HO BRILL 55 MOTOR CAR* This kit was shipped August 14! Remaining kits in first run are available ($89.95) on first come basis. Place your orders while we’re closed—checks cashed/cards charged when ship in August or October. Overseas shipping by priority mail is $15.00 for 1 or 2 kits. Canada $8 per kit. US $8 east of Rockies, $10 west. Those customers who ordered this kit at pre-release special prices have been notified by mail or email in order to confirm current shipping address and credit card information. To guarantee prompt delivery at pre release prices, your prompt response was needed. Our first run quantities are based upon firm, confirmed orders. Advanced reservations on which you still have not updated ypur payment or confirmed address will still receive pre release pricing through October 15. Reruns are expected to be more expensive. *LTD SERIES Indiana Service motor #817 brass parts in O & HO now available . NEW ITEM includes dashers, stirrups, roof mats, kickplates.* *SIGNATURE SERIES O Scale Mann’s Creek Log Cars were rerun in May.* *SIGNATURE SERIES Alaska RR HO Hi Cube Boxcars (made from 2 troop cars) were rerun in May.* *HOMETOWN* Brass Radiator for 1920s HO Truck/ O-S Auto. New Etched brass part #197-2932 $2.95 *LTD Series HO part reruns :* *B&O C15 express car sides, doors double etched brass with raised belt rail.* Rerun just arrived. Price is now $42.95 *US Army WWII Hospital Car wrappers* are here *B&O Class A18cg Modernized Coach Carsides* Rerun pending enough reservations. *SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE DETAILED LATEST UPDATES FOR EACH OF OUR WEB PAGES.* *KITBITS loco and tender parts line has been sold by Bethlehem Car. We and BCW cannot supply these parts. Check the new source info below.* DETAILS ON THESE HEADLINES ARE FOUND BELOW IN THE PAGE BY PAGE UPDATES ORDERING INFORMATION Shipping & handling charge increased in May 07 to a minimum $8 on US & Canada kit shipments. On Small parts & decals mailable first class, contact us for a possible economical "rule breaker". Decal orders- include a SSAE with your check (not credit card info) for no shipping-hdlg charge. *Shopping cart orders are automatically charged $10 min with any overpayment refunded by paypal. Postal rate increases are again on the horizon. Kit shipments to other nations minimum US $13.45.* *MAIL ORDERS* are welcome. Money order, check or credit card (Visa or Master-) include the account #; last 3 or 4 vin digits on back and exp date). Effective 1/1/09 we will hold check orders for clearance and charge $20 for bank returned checks. Model RR Warehouse, Box 411, Roanoke, IN 46783 We also accept PayPal payments to sales (at) mrrwarehouse.com *RESERVATIONS* for future new or rerun products are firm orders. We charge no deposit but do request credit card information. Upon shipment your card will be charged based on the item price at time your order was placed [if there has been a price increase] unless specifically listed as TBA. . Shipping charge applies to each shipment. Most reservations are made by mail or phone order. A few items that are expected soon may be listed in the shopping cart. Orders placed in shopping cart will be charged at time order is placed and may be cancelled for PayPal refund within 30 days. QUESTIONS & About the 800 orders only number. Barb really DOESN’T know any info for you. She is a neighboring business who charges us for taking each call and courteously takes orders. PERIOD. That way we can research kits, work on molds and co ordinate with CAD folks and moldmakers,, meet with suppliers, pack kits, answer emails daily, update website, create ads and fliers, write instructions, prepare invoices, customs export papers and shipments.. Small kit makers do not have front office staff, you know. Please do not call for availability or other info-your call costs us $buck$ (not pennies). Your email is promptly answered by "the boss" . Mrrwarehouse (at) yahoo.com Be certain to use an appropriate subject line to assure clearing the spam hurdles. Thank you. DID YOU TAKE 35MM COLOR SLIDES DURING PRE DIGITAL DAYS? Read The next paragraph. CUSTOM PRINTING or RR forms, notecards, business forms, self published books, fliers etc. The Gray Dove/Craftsman Lithograph folks do our structure kits, invoices, instructions etc. They are so conscientious we have them accept our 800 phone orders. If you are thinking of creative printing needs why not check out their website: http://mysite.verizon.net/bizpvlq6/ When you called in orders to us, you were talking with Barb at the printers, so you know how friendly and helpful she is. (But she still can’t give model info cause she knows printing). Gray Dove is preparing to offer the service of digital scanning your color slides, preparing a CD archive disc for you. Straight forward digital scanning is expected to run 20c per slide. They are also capable of repairing poor lighting, slide deterioration etc at reasonable cost. This service will soon appear on their website. SHOPPING CART If you try to use the shopping cart and your computer is NOT cookies enabled it won’t work. Cookies are the glue that keeps each little bit of your ordering information connected together. Unlike others, we crunch them after your order is sent. *Our shopping cart uses a secure paypal system. The reassuring "padlock" appears when you are asked for the information that is transmitted securely to PayPal.* Many items on the LTD page and all YARDSALE page are NOT in the shopping cart. RED BALL ANNOUNCEMENTS Sept 09 The Red Ball brand and Heritage Line (pre ‘90s kits) have been sold to LaBelle Woodworking, Cheyenne, WY. (www.labellemodels.com) Because this is the 70^th anniversary of Red Ball and the new owners expect a "learning curve" of several months before any releases MRRW is producing and marketing 5 special limited - anniversary kits, by mutual agreement. No other Red Ball kits or parts remain in our inventory for sale. Please see the kit announcement below. Red Ball LTD (brass body kits, car sides, details and decals) Series will continue as an MRRW product : PROTOTYPE SPECIFIC PRODUCTS LTD Series. A broad selection of body kits and parts available nowhere else are found on the new LTD page (click in menu at left). Red Ball SIGNATURE SERIES kits will be continued as MRRW kits: PROTOTYPE SPECIFIC PRODUCTS Signature Series. These kits are found on our Signature Series page (click in menu at left) \ The railcar kits we carry are generally unpainted and undecorated and do not include couplers. They are for “adult hobbiests” (young teen to retiree) who enjoy creatively building prototypically correct models. Modeller’s hand tools and various glues are required foreed for assembly. We carry the decals made by & for Tichy kits and Bethlehem Car kits. Decals made for our own Prototype Specific Products kits will be found on the LTD Series page. Our decals are limited editions and reruns may be reserved. We do not carry other decals. Tichy kits include trucks. The Central Valley, Red Ball, Bethlehem Car, Cannonball Car, LTD and Signature kits we stock do not include trucks. We stock Tichy and Bethlehem Car (“Kitbits”) trucks. YARDSALE- Page many items added- and subtractred each month - Check the YARDSALE every month because we expect to find new treasures—including some of the sought after colorful card sides. No, we can’t accept “please let me know” requests—we’ll post them on this page as we find and organize them every 3-6 weeks. Items on this page are one of a kind or in limited supply. They are not in our shopping cart. Mail or phone orders are accepted on a first come basis. Email first about availability and we’ll hold item for you. Phone order taker cannot advise availability or further details—please don’t call about items on this page. The boss will promptly answer your E mail inquiries. STRUCTURES PAGE updates of April 2010 We are please to announce TWO old favorite HOMETOWN kits are returning in the Bristoil kit series. COMING SOON: THE CORNER DRUG STORE and NEIGHBOR’S HOUSE. Pictures will be posted soon. Also coming HOMETOWNERS GO HERE a collection of several reasonably priced outhouses. Phone reservations accepted—reasonable prices TBA so not yet in the shopping cart. Several brass detail items like FARM GATES, COKE OVEN TOOLS (O&HO) and 1950s AUTO SUN VISORS are found on the LTD page. Check them out New just arrived: Brass radiator for 1920s HO truck. Suited for some O&S Autos too Further along- an earlier update shows printed signs & awnings, other recent additions. CANNONBALL CAR SHOPS Page – latest updates of August 20, 2010 Cannonball Car Shops HO kits are injection molded styrene unless noted. Undecorated, less trucks & couplers. *NEW THIS MONTH* We have a rerun of the popular PRR 50ft DEPRESSED CENTER FLAT CAR in styrene shipping mid November. Injection molded in styrene and undecorated the kit includes cast metal (weight) deck plate in the drop section. #197-4327 is nearly gone $18.95 *NEW LAST MONTH* Cannonball announces a soft metal cast headlight* for use on our GE Steeple Cab and the LTD Series Baldwin steeple cabs (2 per pkg) . #197-9711 $3.00* PS1 Boxcar-- The very first "HO styrene craftsman car kit" was introduced by Kurtz Kraft fifty + years ago. When gasoline was 29.9 a gallon their boxcar was 89c ! The molds for this kit were purchased by Cannonball in the 1970s and recently retired. The VERY LAST RUN of this historic "oldie and still goodie" are being offered in a 2 (undec) car kit pack for $10.95-still a bargain at today’s prices (and plastic prices). They are going fast and these will be THE last. Sku #197-9902 GE Steeple Cab-HO Body is available $29.95. Economy kits of WWII Troop Sleepers, Kitchens still available for MofW use. Economy Kitchen cars are found on the YARDSALE page. WWII HOSPITAL CAR kits are sold out. Brass body sheets (flat) are now sold out but a rerun is expected shortly. SEE THE LTD SERIES PAGE regarding custom reruns and decals. COFFIN or MORTUARY CAR no progress to report. The project is still in our "to do" l;ist..Access to the prototype is now helping on the engineering of this. SNOW SWEEPER CAR announced on traction page needs reservations to advance. DANA AUTO RACKS that were run in the 1980s to add on Athearn TTX flats-we found some in the warehouse. $8 each while they last. SUPPLY IS VERY VERY LOW RED BALL- Updates of Sept 23, 2009 The Red Ball passenger car kits utilize molded styrene walls and ends and are designed to be modified as desired. Roofs are wood (molded plastic for Jim Crow)), floors plastic and details are metal and plastic. Pile driver includes molded styrene, cast metal , wood and photoetched brass parts. Red Ball Seventieth Anniversary Limited Edition Kits Our 70^th anniversary kits are being issued as the last Red Ball kits from MRRW, operator of Red Ball since 1975 for Wabash Valley Lines, Inc. These limited edition kits will be pictured on our HOMEPAGE and may be reserved at this time. The open platform "wood" passenger cars will have injection molded styrene body parts molded in original Red Ball molds, metal steps and underbody detail parts and clerestory roofs with molded plastic ends. They are expected to be shipped before Christmas 2009. #772-4701 40’ Coach $14.95 #772-4702 45’ Combine (easily shortened to 40’) $15.95 #772-4703 Daycoach (59’-64’ options) $22.95 #772-4704 Jim Crow Coach $24.95 And our oft-requested *PILE DRIVER* kit will be revised featuring injection molded styrene car floor and cab, and gussets for the wood boom, cast metal swivel, corrugated metal roof, new etched brass parts and highly detailed (assembled) steam engine & hoist medchanism. This kit will be run in a very limited run shipping later dependent on reservations. #772-4315 $70.00 RED BALL cast parts listings, illustrations are found on the CAR REFERENCE/ARCHIVES page. Individual part sales were suspended July 10, 2008. Other than the 70^th Anniversary kits, Red Ball part and kit information will be found at www.labellemodels.com -- the new home of Red Ball as they get it rolling in 2010. Any residual inventory (that our contract allows us to sell)will be found on the YARDSALE page, please do not write begging us for anything not found there. *Former Red Ball kits we still make are now listed on SIGNATURE SERIES; LTD SERIES; LARGE SCALE* and INTERURBAN* pages of our website -use the menu at left.* *Signature Series (formerly "Red Ball") page updates effective August 20, 2010* Undecorated HO kits are less trucks & couplers. New generation tooling . Kits are made of etched brass and injection molded styrene body parts and details. Signature Series kits were NOT included in the sale of the Red Ball Heritage Series (pre-90s) kits and tooling. O Scale Mann’s Creek Cars (styrene & brass kits) and N Scale troop sleeper conversion parts, MC Log Buggy brass parts also available. Parts-see LTD page and scale specific pages *JUST RERUN -BACK IN STOCK* *O MANN’S CREEK LOG BUGGY* 2 car kit $32.95 *HO B&O C15 EXPRESS/"BAGGAGE" CARSIDES* are now listed on LTD page *HO B&M 4 DOOR EXPRESS (TROOP SLEEPER CONVERSION)* kits $42.95 Sides are listed on LTD page. Nearly sold out HO B&M RPO (TROOP SLEEPER CONVERSION) kits $42.95. Sides are listed on LTD page. Sold out *HO ALASKA RR HI CUBE BOXCAR (1-1/2 troop sleepers conversion)* kits $49.95 HO M&StL Express Car & sides- sold out Signature Series STOCK NOTES We have upgraded the Signature Series page. Complete updated stock notes will now be found there. Notes here are ADVISORRIES of kits in very low supply. Or progress reports on not yet released kits. *HO D&RGW Dynamometer Car*. $49.95 was shipped in early December 07. A rerun is available-and running VERY low-Signature Series Kit-custom decals avail on LTD page. *HO PRR H30a Covered Hopper* $39.95 The etched brass parts are gorgeous (pictured on SIGNATURE SERIES page), injection molded roof and sides are run. We are awaiting one long overdue part from a supplier and will be releasing the kit as soon as possible. The kit includes brass parts for both an "Easy Assembly" and a "Super Detailed" assembly . Extra hatches for H30 conversion are also in preparation. *This kit will have an unusually large amount of etched brass "square inches" and the advertised price $39.95 will be honored on pre release orders received through 2010.* *Other Signature Series Kits IN STOCK :* REA & KCS EXPRESS REFRIGERATOR $44.95; and Alaska 50 ft Boxcar (converted troop sleeper) $42.95 in the current run -these converted troop sleepers were first shipped fall of 07. Mann’s Creek Hopper and Log Buggy kits in HO and O are back in stock. Brass log car parts in 1/20.3 (F Scale) are custom run to order (see LTD page) Brass log car parts in N are still available but no reruns are expected. B&O M53 Wagontop Boxcar HO $29.95 the last run is still available. Decals 2 sets, 4 era $10.95- are rerun *Unique Converted Sleepers* -*we make* *ALL the USA road unique prototypes of ex-Troop Sleeper Express Cars* that ran in passenger trains 1947 thru Amtrak. $39.95 * each for B&O (2 styles) ; B&M (2 styles); C&O; DL&W (EL); M&StL; NH; NYC* (2 styles);REA (2 styles); *KCS; Frisco; Rock Island and the distinctive PM/C&O Tool Car , Alaska boxcars** (regular and hi cube) and B&M RPO. Brass sides & inside doors and Inside Doors may be also purchased separately- see LTD page. In HO they can be used on CANNONBALL and WALTHERS troop cars. Our N Scale sides are sized to fit MicroTrains ® troop cars. Our kits have more differences than just paint jobs as applied by mass importers. Supplies are running very low on most sides and further kit/side reruns in 2010 are not scheduled. CSX-CR Hopper Topper to fit Bowser hopper cars $10.95 --supply limited *HO SP Economy Baggage Cars-* tooling is progressing. 2010 release expected. $TBA *CABOOSE SERIES* progress is stalled due to shenanigans of toolmaker. Future plans are uncertain at this time. More details posted further along in this update file. HERITAGE SERIES-revised rereleases of old favorites will be coming from LaBelle Woodworking. PrototypeScaleProducts LTD SERIES page updates of August 20,, 2010 LTD Series body kits are photo etched brass (unless noted) designed for glue or solder assembly. LTD parts are photoetched brass. Carsides and bodies are double etched.. THE COMPLETE LTD PAGE OF OUR WEBSITE IS NOW UPDATED EVERY 3-6 WEEKS. This update info is a summary of latest changes. ORDERING INFO: Many LTD Items are not listed in our shopping cart because they are typically produced to fill advanced reservations with little inventory over run. This page of our website is updated every 3-6 weeks to show actual availability when posted. Pl;easee order by phone or mail if not listed in cart. That way your order can be a reservation and you will be charged when shipped. Our phone order taker cannot advise of availability of rerun dates. Most commodity prices depressed with the economy. Brass, however, has recently tripled. Prices of reruns and future runs may be expected to increase appreciably. Current reruns of Sides and kits are costing us 20% more than they did one year ago- despite the economy! *Brill 55 Motor Car in HO* is a reality. First run is $89.95. Reservations in other scales will determine possible future runs. *INDIANA SERVICE #817 Freight Motor* brass parts for scratch builders are in production for O and HO and the first have been shipped. Kits are not in sight yet. *Illinois Terminal B-we anticipate test sheets on this kit in 2010.Reservations still accepted at advertised pre release price B&O Fountain Square-* Cincinnatian observation car we are progressing in some problem solving on this kit. 2010 release expected. Test sheets of nickel silver sides are great. *Baldwin Steeple Cab bodies B and D class:* The HO Class B and D kit reruns are $89.95. O scale Inventory is very low and price increases are expected on reruns. S scale reruns will be scheduled when sufficient reservations are received. HO- see Cannonball update for headlight info. FACTORY BLEMS-we have one or two in each O, S, HO scale with surface blems-discolore, light scratch or chemical spotting. Email for details if interested-20% discount. HO Baldwin B was just rerun. *HO DECALS* reruns B&O freight decals in April $10.95. CNJ later—we need some more orders on these. *HO B&O C15 EXPRESS CAR* sides and doors are rerun at $42.95. *HO B&O Modernized “picture window” Coach Class A18cg sides* being rerun when reservations justify $59.95 Class A18 underframes are included. *HO B&M RPO and 4 DOOR EXPRESS* sides to convert Walthers or Cannonball troop cars are among those just rerun.. RPO sold out, one 4 door left are and further 2010 reruns unlikely Most HO troop conversion sides are now $33.95 *HO US Army WWII Hospital Car wrapper.* Wrappers have been rerun-- $79.95. Forming available extra. N SCALE STILL Currently in stock and shipping: N Scale Troop sleeper conversion sides. ALL in stock now ($21.95) . Reruns on these are unlikely unless you N gahers get busier building these unique kitbashes. There are MANY in a sheet and a sheet lasts too long to make fiscal sense CINCINNATIAN Car Sides May be reserved for custom rerun Cincinnatian skirted car SET series HO will be rerun on a custom basis. Tooling is completed and has been run so typical wait for your order 30-45 days. Fountain Square single observation (kits or sides) are nearing production and can still be reserved. ILL TERMINAL B expected for release 2010 - can still be reserved: Illinois Terminal Class B freight motor Over 2 dozen other LTD kits interurban and passenger, are tooled and "in que" at our etching supplier. We cannot anticipate "when" for these kits until they finally reach "top of the stack"-see LTD page for details. INTERURBANS page updates of August 20, 2010 . DREAMING ABOUT POWER FOR THE CANNONBSALL GE STEEPLE CAB and LTD Series Baldwin B&D? Well there have been semi announced projects in the past that were just dreams, but we see signs we may wakec up to a great announcement soon. Check here every month for any news. Indiana Service #817 this classic ex ISC, ex Indiana RR open platform jewell hauled coal and hops through the streets of Fort Wayne into the 1950s!! The brass parts are now ready for scratch builders in O & HO. See the LTD page for current parts listing. BRILL 55 HO motorcar body kits are available. See the LTD page for updated details. BALDWIN STEEPLE CABS supply dwindling, S on reservation status. See notes in LTD Series update. HO and O in stock. Our cost on brass has risen 20-25%. Reruns will reflect this situation. Illinois Terminal Class B freight motor body kit in HO is expected in 2010. OTHER TRACTION CAR BODIES see the updated listings on the LTD page for those that a closest to reality. Reservations are needed to bring them further along. BACHMANN POWER: Both the Cannonball GE steeple cab and our LTD HO Baldwins (B&D) (formerly Red Ball) include brackets to mount the trucks from Bachmann’s EARLY GE 44 or 70 ton diesels. These trucks have motors mounted ON the truck. Other power (such as the Black Beetle) may also be used. Since Bachmann redesigned their diesels (anmd we hear these can also be adapted) there are frequent requests for the "originals" They are often found at train shows or hobby shops. If you are seeking one to power your steeple cab please send us an email with the subject: Bachmann trucks" (no phone calls or mail on this will be answered). We will forward your email to individuals known to currently be selling new or used units for them to contact you directly by email. If you wish to sell units you may send us an email too. We assume no responsibility for such units but offer this as a service. Also: American Model Builders of St Louis makes sideframes and improved height brackets for use with the GE steeple cab. These are sold direct by them, 9/09 Cannonball has announced cast white metal headlights for use with our GE Steeple Cab and the LTD Baldwin Steeple Cabs. #197-9711 $3.00 (2 headlights) Our popular styrene GE Steeple Cab kit in HO is now priced at $29.95. 9/09 Bowser trolley mechanism (34in wheels) for our Brill 55 kit is . $55 each while we can supply them and when ordered with the Brill 55. (Bowser does not continually stock this item). ALL UNITS IN STOCK ARE SOLD OUT. We are working with Bowser for more units. 7/09 BOWSER HO POLE PRICES INCREASE . The HO trolley poles are now priced at $13.95. 7/08 EAST GARY CAR WORKS We are pleased to announce the addition of East Gary products for O and half inch scale traction modelers. Check out the listing just being posted. Portions of the line are special order. We will stock the line as noted in the listing. Check out the "Tax Refund Offer" above if you’ve been planning on a new project. On liune shopping cart will soon include the East Gary Car line. 7/08 WESTINGHOUSE REPRINTS The Westinghouse traction reprints are now available in DIGITAL FORM* for $25.00 each.* 7/08 Tichy has announced availability of their phosphor bronze wire in 3 foot lengths. Sizes available .01. .015, .02 and .025 packaged 12 to the $15.00 tube. Added $7 per order shipping charge applies to these as they cannot be included in most orders’ packages. Last fall Tichy released PRR Insulators. These are a real boon to the HO modeler and would have application in larger scales. Special orders- US only. TICHY TRAIN GROUP PAGE O & LARGE SCALE PAGE see additional updates farther along this page N SCALE PAGE see additional updates farther along this page TICHY TRAIN GROUP Updates May 10, 2010 SPECIAL SALE We honor special sale prices advertised by Tichy or Walthers. Kits currently on sale are: #7010 Coaling Tower $110 #7011 Handcar Shed $8.00 #7012 Steel Water Tank $24 #7013 Steel Oil Tank $12 Must mention sale when placing phone order. Shopping Cart orders we’ll refund your savings. Updates of December 11,2008 Brand New Parts just arriving (may not be listed yet in shopping cart -phone orders OK): ALL SCALES #1117 .040 Phosphor Bronze Wire 12 3ft pieces $15 (+ special shipping charge) O SCALE #2025 Structure Parts assortment 60pc $25.00 #2026 Splice Plates 9in Channel 26pc $3.00 #2027 Splice plates 12 in channel 26pc $3.00 N SCALE #2525 Splice plates 12in channel 54pc $3.00 HO SCALE #8185 Splice plates 6in channel 54 pc $3.00 #8186 Splice plates 12in channel 54pc $3.00 #8187 Store Window 6pc $3.00 #8188 Store Front 3pc $3.00 #8189 4 lite dbl door & frame w/transom 2pc $3.00 #8190 4 lite dbl door masonary transom 2pc $3.00 #8191 Single lite door & frame 3pc $3.00 #8192 Single lite dbl door and frame 2 $3.00 #8193 Strap Railing 3"long 6pc $3.00 #8194 Glass Door & frame w/transom 3 $3.00 #8195 Glass Door & Frome 3 $3.00 #8196 Five panel door & frame w/transom 3 $3.00 #8197 Five panel door & frame 3 $3.00 #8198 Dbl Glass door door & frame 2 $3.00 #8199 Dbl Five panel door & frame 2 $3.00 #8200 1/1 Round top window 12pc $3.00 #8201 1/1 Double Hung Window 12pc $3.00 NEW Boxed Combos: #7018 Handcar shed, milk station,80 milk cans $18.00 #8160 1ea#8006,8007,8166,8167,8169,8171,8174 $32.00 Other recent HO releases: #8155 Old Time Lamp Post (can be lit) 8pc $4.00 #8158 PRR Catenary Insulators 24 $3.00 #8068 Strap Hinges 48 $3.00 #8067 Triangle Hinge 45 $3.00 HO Catalog (releases of Dec not included in it) Free with order on request Eastern Car Works & STEWART Pages not being updated-now on archive page. We no longer stock these lines. ECW has ceased to ship product Stewart was purchased by Bowser. Check Bowser for their current production. Our residual stock of ECW and Stewart will be found on the Yardsale page (not in shopping cart).. BETHLEHEM CAR WORKS -KITBITS updated April 20, 2010 NO LONGER AVAILABLE from BCW (or us): KitBits #6 and the former Leetown loco and tender parts. See below for contact info on the loco & tender parts. Just announced New kits: #SP50 Maine Central Osgood Bradley Coach Smoker #213-221 $67.50 #SP42 B&O Wooden Coach $75.00 #SP43 CPR Wooden 60ft Baggage Car $67.50 #SP46 B&O E7c RPO/Baggage $75.00 #1187 Reading Café Car $75.00 New and already in our shopping CART: Three new passenger trucks: GSC 41E with friction and with roller bearings; PRR type 3C-P1; New Kits:Rutland RPO; B&M Pullman; CV Wood Baggage; Maine Central RPO; Rutland wood smoker; B&M Open Platform wood coach; PRR Class Br Baggage and PRR Wood postal&paper M1. Busy times out there at BCW !!! 6/09 NEW PARLOR - RESTAURANT-LOUNGE CAR KITS These are impressive. Kudos to John Greene for developing the concept of basing his brass sides to the Branchline styrene body and details. Pullman plan2410 kit with brass sides and Branchline styrene core. Three versions msrp $67.50 ea. Web cart order (only) at special intro process:: #10-2410 with electro mechanical air conditioning for: Reading ("Ottawa"); DL&W ("Raymilton"); B&M ("Saoma") #10- 2410A with Ice activated air for: PRR ("Emsworth", "Frankfort", Rowland"); DL&W ("Imola"); NYC ("Lamorna"); B&M ("Peralta", Milton", "Montteagle"); Wabash ("Shardlow"); Lehigh Valley ("Oakner", Wesley") #10-1410 Ice Activated air N&W ("Cuttyhulk") We strive to maintain a complete inventory of BCW Kitbits parts trucks and passenger car kits. We can supply un-cataloged brass sides for BCW kits in the $30 price range and stock their plastic sides. BCW has sold the former LeeTown steam loco parts (white metal, 2100 number series ) and we have experienced a run on them-they are ALL GONE HERE as of November 09. They are removed from our shopping cart . The new owner is D HICKS TRAINS, PO Box 90722, Allentown, PA 18109. DHICKSTRAINS@msn.com REPEAT: Please do not order them from us or from Bethlehem. OREGON RAIL (updated August 20, 2010) We honor current sale prices advertised by Walthers Flier. Must mention when placing phone orders. We refund your savings on shopping cart orders. SIGNAL BRIDGE ADDITIONAL SIGNAL MASTS (2) for $9.95 These match the masts included in the new kits. They include signal heads, mast (posts) and fineals. PRR version has 2 of each style head and US&S has 2 rach one, two and three light heads. LEDs are not included. We’ve gotum. AS PREVIOUSLY POSTED FOR THE CURIOUS: Regarding our Previous posts on these fine models that we and many of you saw way back at the Seattle NMRA national train show: It is amazing how much MIS-information some folks can create. We have weekly conversations with Dick and cheer each other along on hurdles in our respective projects. The recently circulated rumor Oregon Rail was out of business is probably a dream for those announcing much more expensive signals. The molds "are hung" and running now on the new signal; bridges-previous signals are being shipped regularly (and in stock here at MRRW). In November we told you: ALL test shots for both 2 and 4 track signal bridges with PRR and "regular" heads have been approved (semaphore versions are "not yet"). All packaging has been designed by the artists and is in China.. All instructions and graphics are completed and in China. All packaging INSTRUCTIONS and SAMPLE packs have been completed by Dick so the Chinese SHOULD NOT be able to miss something in translation.. Now to continue. Firm July 08 delivery dates were promised by the Chinese manufacturer in late May 08 and financier. Two track bridge Expected MSRP price is $27.95 and 4 track is $29.95. At the time of this update the bridges have still not been shipped from China and no new promises have been received. Dick is bugging the Chinese and his financiers. He has indicated "some hope" of fall delivery. The tooling is done -everything is awaiting an "unfreeze." The semaphore versions are yet to come -moldmaker has serious corrections to make on those signals. PRR FANS-NEW- #143 PRR POSITION LIGHT SIGNAL HEADS $9.95 include 2 "regular" position light heads and two "squared off" signal heads, mounting brackets and finials. #144 PRR HEAD OPERATIONAL ASSEMBLY SET $17.95 will include 2 PC mounting boards and 14 LED for assembling two working PRR postion light heads. Have NOT been shippe #142 etched signal mast ladder stock 2 pc 11 ½inches $8.95 CABOOSES Update of April 5, 2008 We could certainly use the part time services of an experienced CAD person (hopefuilly familiar with model RR) in the Fort Wayne area. The ex-toolmaker managed to deliberately undo MANY months of work on these projects when he decided our agreed upon rates were chicken feed compared to the $90/hr medical apparatus firms would pay him. Updated December 16, 2007: RED Ball Virginian, B&O and N&W kits in N were EXPECTED by now (with O & HO behind them) but we have experienced a major setback. The toolmaker has been so inundated with very lucrative medical apparatus work that we are shoved out the door. Unfortunately, there are very few hungry tool makers left in these parts since most have already starved as their work went to the Orient-or are doing medical items. We are unable to anticipate when this jungle may be untangled. BUT BEFORE YOU START ANY RUMORS-when a firm has invested the research, engineering and kilobucks in a project, like we have on the cabooses, it is unrealistic to think they would just drop it. Problems like this do create delays in other work in progress as well. ECW Eastern caboose was just mentioned in ECW notes-we wish we knew something to tell you. Bangor & Aroostook-see info in our LTD updates. Reserve now at pre-release prices. Others- announced for Red Ball-yes, your patience is appreciated. We have a terrific backlog of work waiting at the etchers door. These are listed as "in que". They are moved through as production capacity allows. "MRN Models": LTD for which we have tooling completed (or well along if marked ) but more reservations are needed to proceed with production: All above listed items, all troop conversions, and Baldwin B&D in other scales. Monon converted hospital passenger cars Baldwin model A, B1 and E steeple cabs Cincinnatian unskirted cars and 52 seat coaches Cincinnatian cars without lettering B&O A18 coach variations* N&W M3, Ms3 mail cars* CB&Q Combine/RPO* Alaska RR Refrigerator car* STRUCTURE MODELS updated May 10, 2010 New detail items from HOMETOWN (HO) #197-2932 Brass Radiator 1920s Truck $2.95 #`197-2671 Shotgun Carriage (metal) and etched stainless circular sawblade for sawmill. $7.95 #197-100 Large Rectangular Transformer for substations, factories, loads (plastic) 2 in pkg $4.50 SOON #197-101 Printed Signs & Awnings 10 awnings for dbl hung windows, 6 large storefront awnings and assorted store & theatre signs. Printed in colors $2.50 #197-102 Old Time Pneumatic Crossing Gate Base and counterweights for 2 gates (metal)$1.50 #197-103 Handtrucks for loading docks (metal) 3 / $1.50 *Feb 15, 2009The newest thing here was Tichy’s Industrial Water tank. Discussed above in Tichy notes.. HOMETOWN $5 big brick sheets are popular with folks who SEE them. Insulbrick (that tar paper imitation brick overlay stuff) is here too! O, S AND LARGE SCALE updated April 1,2010* see also Tichy updates LTD Series Indiana Service #817 brass parts and Mann’s Creek Log Car parts. See LTD Page. EAST GARY CAR WORKS is discussed earlier in traction listing. They offer many parts suited to early 20^th Century modeling of passenger cars in O, and trucks and parts for F and half inch scale modeling.. O scale Part #100 is for building Niles, St Louis or Cincinnati cars (in order on the sprue) and #200 is for Jewett cars. East Gary’s F Scale (#F100) and 1/2 “ D&RG Arch Bar truck (#G504A) is now $26.95 each. We stock all Tichy O&S scale windows, doors, car parts. We just prepared a listing for this page so that signaled new items from Don: Pallets and a 5 panel door on O.. *Moldwork was* moving along for Red Ball’s new O scale cabooses-both B&O I-1 and Virginian C2. These kits would feature styrene bodies with etched brass details. It is still too early to give firm prices and dates. See the sad notes in the CABOOSE update. More reservations needed on CD&M, Brill 55 amd Illinois Terminal B and other items as shown on the new LTD Series page.. G Scale-Red Ball Log Car kit is sold out. The metal hardware parts are available-listed on our LTD Series page. N SCALE updated August 17, 2009 CENTRAL VALLEY will soon be shipping their Pratt through truss bridge in N scale. Their exquisite HO kit of this is shown on our CENTRAL VALLEY page. This is CV’s first N scale release #210-1810 will be modestly priced at $24.95 TICHY PARTS are listed above in TICHY updates. 2007:TICHY has just shipped the drop bottom gondola kit and sugar beet gondola car kit. Their work train set is now available. New parts announced aretelltales, brakewheels, 40 pane roundhouse window and 80 piece window & door assortment. The N scale Red Ball log car kit has sold out. We are now offering (etched brass) metal body parts for scratch builders (you only need to add 4 wood beams to build a great car). Check the photo of our HO and O cars on the Red Ball page. We stock all the Tichy and CMA N scale parts and kits, and City Classis great gas station. Handy reference lists have been prepared for the webmaster to post. LTD SAeries troop car conversion sides for prototype specific express cars are now $21.95. These sides permit post WWII modeling of passenger trains with correct baggage/express cars. These brass sides fit the Microscale ® troop sleeper (not incl). Supply of some sides is very low and we do not anticipate reruns. The sad truth is that there are an awfully lot of pieces per expensive sheet and the low demand means they sit around too long to make financial sense. See the LTD Series page. Check out the CABOOSE notes-the N&W, B&O and VGN N scale caboose molds are in limbo.. MANN’S CREEK LOG BUGGY brass parts are available. Check out the LTD Series page. REFERENCE/ ARCHIVE (major revisions summer 2008) Now includes Eastern Car, Red Ball Heritage & other material Further along this Car & Truck Reference page is reference material not found elsewhere-a catalogue of kits made in HO during the "aftermarket decorating" era. These are not available today except where you happen to find them. The cars are listed by railroad (east of Miss R roads). CENTRAL VALLEY page (updated May 2009) Check out this page-we are upgrading it. We have the great new tall door of interest for roundhouses etc. The CV track system tie strip is now available in 8’ 6" length Part 1124 Brake Beam is discontinued and we are now sold out. HOOSIER BYWAYS page Enjoy a bit of the Hoosier state by visiting our own postcards. TROOP AND HEADEND PAGE NOT BEING Updated -now locarted as an Archived page. This page is being retained for reference due to the archives we’ve generated. Pleas refer to the RED BALL page for updated photos and information about converted troop cars. Please refer to the CANNONBALL page for current military kit information & photos. Repeat: Kit info on this page is obsolete, please use it for prototype info. The long awaited B&O C15 express car is close but folks have been snapping up the carside-door part sets eagerly to do their own conversions (likely using old MDC Harriman cars). STEWART HOBBIES NOT BEING UPDATED We no longer distribute Stewart following their sale to Bowser. Check our YARDSALE page for several closeout specials on scarce models. Shambles, the webmaster, had made such a nice Stewart reference page here we are keeping it open for your use as a reference service.
Retiring The Boss Serious model railroaders have been witnessing the disappearance of many well established sources of fine product in recent years. It is our desire that this not be the case with Red Ball and associated products. Red Ball, the pioneer of prototypical diversity since 1939, has been operated (and preserved) by Merle Rice in Roanoke , IN under the Wabash Valley Lines and Model Railroad Warehouse business entities since 1976. Merle enjoys design and creation of new products, and the tooling to produce them. Recent medical situations, however, indicate that he should begin a phased retirement to assure the continuation of Red Ball as a source of prototypically specific model kits. This is not an announcement of business closure. It is an announcement of a decision to begin a phased retirement designed to offer opportunity for "new blood" to pick up the reins of recognized and functioning business. Model Railroad Warehouse's business is structured in a manner that permits acquiring the whole in segments over time, or for some segments to be subdivided out as freestanding and independent entities. Access to or skills in CAD, and resin molding of special parts, would be a plus for most segments. Prices vary for most segments and are five digit and fair-- this is not a "distress" sale. Additional product tooling and development are continuing, as are sales- thus prices are fluid. This announcement is an attempt to secure capable, ongoing stewardship of the Red Ball tradition. Seriously interested parties should contact Merle Rice by mail at PO Box 411 , Roanoke , IN 46783 . *MRRW Distribution Business* specializes in "craftsman" kits and parts. Lines currently stocked are: Bethlehem Car Works; Cannonball Car Shops; Central Valley; City Classics; CMA; DSP EZ Weights; Eastern Car Works; Hometown; Oregon Rail Supply; Red Ball; Silver Brook Junction; Tichy Train Group. Lines we have stocked that could be reinstituted: Broadway Limited; Cal Scale; Canon & Co; Detail Associates; Details West; Grandt Line, Pikestuff; Scalecoat; Stewart Hobbies. Purchase of this business includes inventory, reservations for unreleased items (except those of our own production listed below) ; goodwill and website. *Red Ball Signature Series* are ten all newly designed and tooled kits based on photoetched brass and injection molded styrene bodies. Purchase includes production tooling, inventory and design rights to Mann's Creek Hopper and Log cars (O & HO scales) B&O Wagontop Boxcar; Pennsylvania H30a Covered Hopper; PRR P38 troop coach and kitchen car;and SP Economy baggage Cars as well as related decals and parts. Design may be included for additional kits not yet tooled. *Interurban Series* purchase includes production tooling and inventory for the HO GE Steeple Cab freight motor and production tooling (with opportunity to adapt for other scales) and inventory for etched brass kits: Baldwin B and D freight motors (O, S and HO); Brill 55 Motor Car (HO); Illinois Terminal Class B freight motor (HO). Tooling prepared for final steps: Baldwin A and E freight motors; and Illinois Terminal Class C. Reservations for these and other unreleased models and the Interurbans page of our website, *Caboose and Converted Troop Car Series* purchase includes inventory and mold base and mold inserts to produce HO Scale troop sleeper and troop kitchen in both open and closed window styles; O, HO and N scale caboose kits. Inventory and production tooling for brass caboose details, 14 HO and 9 N troop conversions (suited to other scale conversions) 2 S and 1 O Troop body kits; reservations for new releases and tooling prepared for final steps: Bangor & Aroostook, D&M troop caboose conversions. *Red Ball Heritage* purchase includes some 500 highly detailed solid metal molds and the machinery for casting the historic line in metal and in styrene; Red Ball trade name rights and web page; kit design rights; Carside art rights for over 350 cars (billboard reefers, boxcars, others.); casting metal supply, reservations on hand and some inventory *LTD Series Passenger Cars* purchase includes production tooling for etched brass / ns sided B&O Cincinnatian train, C15 Express Car and nearly two dozen cars -tooling prepared for final steps: B&O and C&NW headend cars, Milwaukee ribbed side combines, Army hospital car (production tool adaptable to Monon cars), other extensive B&O passenger cars-and reservations on hand. *Extra equipment, inventory smaller Lots:* Pad printer; second 12 ton- 3/4 ounce Simplomatic hydraulic injection molding machine (as pictured on Yardsale page) & resins; large lot of Athearn diesel shells, Athearn & other undecorated car kits, Stewart F units from our era as the aftermarket decorator of New River brand; Yardsale consignment goods; inventory remnant lots of Cal Scale; Canon & Co; Details West; , Detail Assoc; Scalecoat; S scale B unit shells; Enhorning molds etc.. Specific details stated are accurate at posting July 2007.
*SAY-CAN YOU RETIRE? I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THIS RETIREMENT THING.* Q1. Why don't you post your phone number so it would be easier (than writing a letter) to discuss purchasing the business? A. I want to talk with SERIOUS potential buyers, not "idle tied -bit & gossip" gatherers [and after I hear from serious folks we will use a phone]. Casual half hour or hour phone calls or drop in visitors are not compatible with concentrating on packing kits correctly; meeting with $50 an hour mold makers; concentrating on the correct part fit dimensions of new tooling or the prototype research involved; getting press releases and ads out by publisher deadlines; getting orders processed and shipped promptly; preparing website updates and getting to the next medical appointment on time. These are all still happening. We love to talk with Red Ball admirers at train shows etc. when we have set aside the time to be there for that purpose. (And in our allotted email read & respond time). You have probably noticed the half dozen large train companies hire folks (that you are disgusted with because they don't know any answers) to sit in their booths and us little guys in the business have PO Boxes etc, not secretaries, right? Q2. Would one need to be a skilled machinist? A. Not unless that is the direction a new owner planned to take the company. All the new Signature line, Traction and LTD kits currently involve reputable subcontractors for production and production tooling. Managing skills are important for this. The Heritage line, especially, could be enhanced by machining skills. Q3. You state the price (per section) would be five digits. Why so much? A. When new, Injection molds cost 5 or six digits EACH. Tooling for quality photo etching costs four digits. When one invests their savings in a bank or mutual fund they expect to recover them, right? Shouldn't the same apply to this kind of investment? Q4. Would you be available to consult or coach? A. None of us know what tomorrow will bring. You know I kept this business "alive" (though not very "well") through nearly a year of blindness and some dozen eye surgeries. Just 3 weeks before the Seattle National Train Show I was rear- ended by a semi on I-69. Much of our display in the station wagon was scattered across three southbound lanes. [Those who expect to take personal steps "someday" to assure their relationship with The Lord are living unbalanced on the edge in my opinion.] But I love this work and have been doing it (along with 37 years of college and high school teaching) for over forty years- so yes, as long as I am able I can be available. Q5. Why do you have so many unreleased kits? A. In part, reflect on the previous answer #4. Then there are two kits that were voted highly in our website ballot but advanced reservations were dismal. Our LTD kits are deliberately this way. Many are well along BUT the very first kit will STILL will cost me $1,000-$3,000 or more. If the reservations aren't adequate to convince Mrs. Rice that is where our money belongs, I don't need that first kit. It would be physically impossible for our subcontractors to supply all of those tomorrow anyhow if you sent along a million dollars [or decided to custom market all of them using the "so you want to be a manufacturer" thing I posted many moons ago]. Most are in que to become reality in coming months. These DO provide an opportunity for a buyer to continue releasing new items while engaged in the learning curve themselves. Q6. Is Hostler Ginchell ready to move? A. Yes. He was there with M. Dale Newton in Red Ball's earliest days and Red Ball fans obviously expect him to outlive Dale, Howell and myself. He thinks he is indispensable and I am not about to burst his bubble. Maybe he is. Q7. What caused your announcement? Some people think you were out of business years ago. A. The consequences of over 30 years of diabetes ganged up and caused the announcement. Some people thrive on inventing news and others on spreading it. Thank you for checking for actual facts. { Heard that one chat group thinks John Greene makes Red Ball. John IS Bethlehem Car Works. He SELLS some Red Ball kits. He SELLS BCW parts to us for some Red Ball kits. We sell his kits and parts too. He is not us. OK. Next rumor….) Q8. What is the inventory status I should expect? Is it full of white elephants or in need of massive refills to resume the business? A. Neither. The business is not winding down. It is continuing on a normal basis now. I am maintaining complete inventories of all lines we distribute at the levels appropriate to smooth operation of MRRW. This applies to distributed lines (except Eastern Car Works currently unavailable items) and the products we make. Injection molded plastic parts are typically run in minimum quantities of 1000 or more so those numbers might look heavy. or light at any given time depending on rerun schedules. The lines listed as "not currently distributed" would require refills but reasonable quantities to resume but a good base are here yet. Of course the tooling would be inventoried to serious inquiries. Because these number fluctuate, a specific price is not quoted out front. Q9. Boss Merle, does your well -deserved phase out dash hopes for a long awaited DL&W caboose? (similar requests on Cincinnatian loco, other cabooses, traction kits). A. Hope for the D&H caboose [etc, etc] would only be dashed if 1) I die before a/ or no competent successor is found 2) A successor dropped that ball 3) Someone else brought out a good kit first And on item 1-none of us knows "when" on that score do we? My medical problems are not "terminal" but they do impair energetic progress. Item 2- Reservations are the best "security." Hollering for "kits we need" isn't nearly as effective as reserving them. Item 3- Copying our kit ideas and designs has plagued Red Ball and Hometown for decades. Copying whole lines in China by other "big boys" is reaching absurd levels. .
.INFORMATION BELOW IS OLD AND MAY BE OUTDATED OR UPDATED WITH NEW INFO
IF YOU BUILD IT THEY WILL COME Several recent chat groups have included threads from individuals thinking of manufacturing kits- and we receive frequent inquiries about doing specific projects for others. If that's you, read on. Would you like an affordable molded styrene model kit of your favorite railcar quickly? . Do I have a deal for you! I will offer you several dozen undecorated kits of your car for only $2.50 each in N or HO, or $5 each in S or O ! Delivery- within the next 6-9 months on most cars. How to proceed: Send a group of clear detailed photos of the prototype and precision CAD drawings of all elevations and details. Also include CAD drawings required for construction and completed engineering plans for each separate individual part. Parts must be designed to allow molds to fill and parts to be removable from molds. Upon receiving the exact amount quote from us, send a cashier's check for the molds to be machined into steel blocks. This payment will be in the $25,000-$60,000 range for most N or HO models and roughly three times that for S or O. Request special quotes on larger scales. Cost is at least double for kits requiring the full body as one piece. Upon receiving and approving the half dozen test shots, send $1,000 for those test shots. If changes are requested, additional charge will depend on the changes requested. This step may be repeated as desired with appropriate charges each time. This will lengthen the stated delivery time. Upon approval, send the agreed kit price for 1,000 kits plus shipping of the kits and steel molds (if they are to be returned). If you are not interested in 1000 kits you may request that we keep the extras and market them for you at whatever price you would like. At this time we will need to receive from you a cashier's check for $1.50 each for boxes and instructions, 50c each for packaging labor and $2,000 for minimum advertising expenses (this will cover two small ads and their preparation). Additional thousands may be ordered later if you wish. The retail price to be charged is up to you. The $2.50 kit is costing you $4.50 plus advertising and mold costs apportioned over the kits you expect to sell. If you plan to sell to us or any distributor for resale through dealers you will receive 40% of the retail and pay the shipping charges. Other distributors publishing catalogs will likely charge you for catalog space. If you do not expect your kit to sell a thousand copies there are other options: 1. For kits that might only sell a few dozens we suggest considering precision photo etched brass. The cost per kit will vary because it is based on the square inches of brass used per kit in the 12x12 or 12x24 inch sheets and on the thickness. Each single sheet of etched material will cost about $110-$130 at current metal prices. The additional hand labor involved removing kits from the sheet is skilled [if you with us to provide it or not]. Regular CAD drawings may be submitted as above but we will require specially prepared CAD work that is designed for the etching. [The etching process acts horizontally as well as depth and most kits require sophisticated double etching and bends, drill locations, holes etc etched from the rear]. Special CAD redrawing from your regular CAD can be provided at $50 per hour. Our etcher requires this professional to edit each project that has been professionally drawn by us. This cost is $300-$500 per kit typically. The cost escalates when the editor must cross check part fitting. The first test sheet and production negative will be $600-$750. Kits with multiple thick nesses (the Red Ball B/W Steeple cab has 3) require this cost for each thickness material. Upon approval you may order sheets in any quantity at the prices noted above $110-$130 each plus shipping from CA. Any alterations (or scale changes) require a repeat of step two at the costs noted. We welcome the opportunity to provide either the plastic or brass options to you. If you wish to do your kits in laser cut wood or thin styrene. The steps involved will be similar to the etched brass steps but with the additional option of variable depth control. We do not provide this service and cannot quote but expect the costs are comparable to etched metal costs. If you wish to do your kits in poured resin you must develop a "scratch built model" -in pieces- that will be used to make molds. It will be coated by multiple layers of liquid rubber to build up a set of molds. The resin is poured into these molds by hand to make the parts. Special techniques of vibration and vacuum are involved avoiding bubbles. The shrinkage of resin should be considered when sizing your master patterns. We do not provide this service and cannot quote but resin and labor costs are appreciable. This technique is appropriate for models that may sell dozens to one or two hundred. Kits that have a greater potential probably cannot be considered by injection molding companies if 10% of their potential market has already been creamed by resin kits [from individuals or societies]. If all this seems too involved and you aren't adept at marketing BUT you are good at research and CAD or machining patterns or molds there is another way. In the 1950-60 era most of the kit lines that grew did so because various individuals contributed their skills. They received free kits and great satisfaction for their efforts. We and other kit makers are still very willing to work with folks on this kind of basis today. We aren't getting rich [hoping to break even on some kits and pay the bills with the others]. But we enjoy bringing enjoyment to others and most kit makers can use help at that. However you proceed, please respect the intellectual property of those who have made these investments before you. Simple ethics suggest that making a mold from others' kits, scanning a laser cut- part, etched metal part, instruction plan or color printed panel is not the appropriate way to proceed. Many things are copyrighted and some cannot be. If you find yourself involved developing a "reason" or excuse for "using" someone else's product you are on an ethics slope. If theirs is too expensive, currently unavail- able, not in your favorite material or not quite up to today's standards ---it is still theirs. Approximate Dollar Amounts are given for March 2007. Mold making historically doubles every 5 years. Boss Merle
MEMORIUM Howell Day passed away at his Florida home Monday December 19,2005. Howell was a pioneer in the model railroad industry. The Model Railroad Shop he began in Dunellen (Piscataway), New Jersey, continues to serve New York hobbyists today, some seven decades later. He was an early manufacturer of O scale kits and items then introduced the " H Owen" line before World War II. He was proud to point out that when he announced an HO Pennsy K4 kit the ads showed several of the engines-proving it was not a pipe dream.. This same attention to selling only what he had available continued during the 1950-70 era as he continued leadership with the extensive Red Ball product line. Howell closed during the slow summer months and built up a season's inventory. He then insisted on a mailed "pre-order" to which he answered which items were still available and how much to remit. Seasoned hobbyists today remember him for Red Ball that he purchased from its founder, M. Dale Newton, in 1955 and sold to us in 1976. During those two decades he introduced additional car sides to the line. Red Ball was the source of well over 200 billboard reefers and over 100 boxcars in an era when only a handful of car sides were offered by other kit makers. The line was a precursor to today's interest in a large selection of prototypically accurate models. Red Ball was respected for dozens of other unique prototype cars with crisply cast detail parts and was an early importer of Japanese made brass motive power. Many anomalies crept into the line as well. Red Ball briefly included the first injection molded model railcar kit (Kurtz Kraft PS1 boxcar) and Howell provided a variety of N scale boxcar and reefer sides when only foreign imports were in the N marketplace. Today's modeler who missed that golden era will recognize Howell's name as the name on the fledgling NMRA national museum of model railroading. Howell had the foresight to provide builtup models of the Red Ball line and finances to initiate the museum. The NMRA Museum leadership approached us last summer to provide an appropriate Howell Day memorial car that is in development. Howell Day was a gentleman in business transactions and a humble friend. Messages of appreciation addressed to his wife, Ruth Day, can be mailed to her at Ruth Day, c/oRed Ball Models , PO Box 411, Roanoke, IN 46783 and we will send them along to her
HO PARTS AVAILABLE BY DIRECT ORDER FROM MRRW UPDATED SEPT, 2005 DECALS B&O M53 WAGONTOP BOXCAR with choices on service dates & shops, contains logos for all lettering schemes through the 1950s. (for one car with leftover logos) licensed by CSX #772-4463D $5.95 available now MONON Coke Car and Stone Gon material to decal one each of these cars. licensed by CSX and available when kits are released #772-4401D $9.95 CENTRAL OF NEW JERSEY with correct statue of liberty herald. Heralds & Data to decal one CNJ class boxcar and other cars, Number jungle and heralds permit use on other cars as well. #772-4464D $9,95 (coming Sept) US ARMY WW II HOSPITAL CAR with 2 color Red Cross for carsides & roof. Decals for one car #197-97004 $6.95, Same decal with doors & instructions to convert most any heavyweight Pullman into hospital car #197-87006 $9,95 US ARMY WWII HOSPITAL AUXILIARY with 2 color Red Cross and lettering for one kitchen car or most other auxiulliary service cars in hospital train. #197-97005 $9.95 PULLMAN/ US ARMY WWII TROOP TRAIN decals for two sleepers and one kitchen car #197-97002 $5.95 WE ALSO STOCK DECALS MADE BY BETHLEHEM CAR and EASTERN CAR for their kits. FAVORITE VINTAGE RED BALL PARTS Steel car side ladders 10/ 50cents as is Wood 36' freight car roof 4/ $1.00 as is-some discoloration 36' DEPRESSED CENTER FLAT CAR SIDE SILLS $2 /pr this is the same prototype Eastern has dopne in styrene. Weight it! Many have requested the earlier cast Red Ball parts. Existing inventory is being organized to make these parts available this winter --while they last. M are die cast soft metal and P are injection molded styrene from the same metal molds. Your reception will determine whether reruns are to be considered. Orders now accepted for delivery late fall/winter. Supplies limited, orders accepted on first come, first served basis. Prices unless otherwise noted: Boxcar & Reefer ends or doors $3.50 / pr Bolsters, Span Bolsters, End sills & Gondola ends 2pc $2.75 4 pc set $3.95 Brakewheels (4) or Brakewheel & Housing (2 set) $2.95 Underframe (1 or 2 pc set) $3.95 Ice Hatches , Steps 4 pc set $2.95; 8 pc set $3.95 Others listed as available: ILLUSTRATIONS AND LIST POSTED WHEN PARTS ARE AVAILABLE.
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CINCINNATI'S NATIONAL TRAIN SHOW July 05
The Boss and Bea arose [too] early for the MRIA Breakfast Meeting so we got to play tourist at 5:30 AM our time. Here is Bea at Fountain Square-about our only chance to play tourist. It was a busy train time Bea-too early at Fountain Square
Our booth (202-203) featured (on the left side) Oregon Rail crossing flasher and cantilever Signal bridge that were welcome sights to many. On the same panel were the NEAT CMA and Tichy 'minikits' for tell tales, mail cranes, water plugs,ice blocks, burlap bags, milk cans, fire escapes, wheel stops and the like. We nearly sold out of Tochy/CMA	Left end of our booth
Next was a City Classics display and those kits went whoosh. Folks saw their quality and couldn't believe the reasonable prices. Next to that was a board showing the Bethlehem Car Co. truck selection and a group of BCW passenger car kits and hard to find books by Silver Brook Junction Press . Yes, we STOCK BCW parts and trucks.
In the corner was the Cannonball Car Shops display of the new WWII Hospital Car, Hospital kitchen car and a 'converted' heavyweight Pullman to hospital car using CCS conversion kit. We started with a stack of styrene GE steeple cab kits and a builtup model. The display model came back to Indiana but the kits went far and wide. There were CB&Q, Monon, and N&W express cars made with the CCS kitchen car and several other interesting troop conversions. RED BALL's converted troop sleepers were next on the right. Folks seemed to really enjoy studying the many different brass sided cars.that ran every where from the 1950-70s era (many are still in special service. N scalers saw THE first announcement of brass sides to convert Micro Trains ® troop sleepers-and snatched up the sample sides that were for sale.	Troop Car Corner
The center of our booth featured Red Ball LTD, Red Ball Heritage and Red Ball SIGNATURE series cars. From LTD: our first modernized / betterment train, the Cincinnatian was shown with nickel silver etched sides (with raised lettering like the prototype). LTD's first traction model, the Baldwin B steeple cab, was shown and available for purchase and a pre-production B&O C15 baggage car was there. A 1980's vintage Wreck Crane kit represented the old favorites being upgraded for reruns as 'Heritage Series.' Signature cars included a train of Mann's Creek	Red Ball Display
HO hoppers, the B&O Wagontop boxcar, PRR H30 Covered Hopper; PRR Troop Sleeper; PRR Depressed Center Flat and Mann's Creek Log buggies in G,O and N. The Mann's Creek Hopper in O scale was also on display.. Over on the right we featured the HOMETOWN Bristol Backgrounder buildings and 17x21 brick sheets, factory walls and 'Insulbrick' Sheet. There were folks crowded around this most of the time. We sneaked in some of the Hometown Studio Series parts and Hoosier Byways postcards from the area too. We'll tell more about those things on this website soon. Insulbrick? That's the tar/asbestos sheeting they used to use to cover old buildings. It looks like ugly brick with black mortar-from afar. Those Brick sheets are in HO, N, O, S and G !!!	HOMETOWN Display
In our booth this year you met Boss Merle, his wife Bea and George Dollens and his wife Mary Ann. That's George in the red shirt. He's the lead man on most of the LTD projects. After Merle does basic design George does the special CAD work for etching the brass. He works from the plans and pix we've assembled. We're proud of the Cincinnatian he developed (it's hiding behind them) . But that's only the beginning. All of George's work is then 'edited' by Doug Hunt. [He stayed. back in Indiana working on caboose molds]. On projects when Doug is lead man, the editing is George's to do Doug was in charge of the raised lettering on the Cincinnatian cars. May sound simple to you but that alone took a couple weeks!! Preparation of the exhibit was Doug's job for over a month so the cabooses were calling him. George got to see the show too. There were so many of you the boss didn't. That's good-we came to meet you. IF we are able to be in Philly it will be Doug's turn. Most of us smaller companies have to shut down for over a week to do a show, and it can easily cost a tenth of the year's income. That alone should explain why we told so many of you we wouldn't be at a show you asked about. We'd love to-but. .	Boss Merle & George
It is super to be able to visit layouts the evening after a long & tiring day of setting up the booth. The day starts with long waits at a loading dock and continues non stop. We did well this year- Only forgot to pack one display model and only had one new kit (Brill 55) that didn't make the deadline to be in the show. We were showing *over a hundred new products for the first time!*	Bea at one of the host layouts

Thank you to our Cincinnati hosts for a job well done. We'll honor you with a train well done-the Cincinnatian by Red Ball. Here are two other Prototype Specific manufacturers we're proud to count as our friends-as well as suppliers. They're proud of the new models shown for good reason- coming soon. For some, , designing new kits is much of the fun in model railroading. As seen at Cincinnati-----

City Classics' Jim Sacco didn't want his picture on the website until we agreed to include his new HO neighborhood supermarket. *Of course we wanted to show IT.* His new booth display was also Impressive.	Don Tichy is the 'giant' holding those little N jewels. He's the proud parent of new N scale Water tower and signal tower kits [in his hands]. All those parts behind Don are his-and we stock them--ALL.
January 29, 2004 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Cannonball Car Shops has continued their HO World War II troop train series begun six years ago with the troop sleeper and kitchen car. Now being released is the consist for a World War II troop hospital train. Such trains typically met incoming ships at dockside to transport casualties to military hospitals in the US Cannonball's HO Army Hospital Car consists of an injection molded styrene core with double etched brass overlay body wrapper. The finely detailed wrapper has attached stirrups and is preformed for ease of quick construction. Also included in the kit are Eastern Car Works truck side frames, window glazing, custom created decals and metal stairwell castings. Underbody detail is included in the styrene core floor. The 'full length passenger' configuration of these cars and their streamlined appearance led to postwar purchase for other uses. The best known of these are Ringling Brothers Circus and Monon passenger cars. Hospital kit #197-9708 is $79.95 including preformed brass wrapper, styrene core kit, decals, steps and truck side frames. Hospital trains often consisted of hastily adapted heavyweight cars as well as the custom made hospital cars. Photographs indicate a wide variety of cars were converted in this manner. Cannonball offers the decals and litter doors for easily adapting your own HO heavyweight cars into 'emergency' hospital cars. Conversion kit #197-97006 with decals, doors and instructions for one car is $9.95.The hospital car decal set alone, #197-97004, is $6.95. Each eight to twelve hospital cars in a train were served by a hospital kitchen car. Cannonball now offers an injection molded styrene hospital kitchen car kit #197-9710 in HO for $29.95. Included with this kit are special hospital kitchen car lettering decals with two color Red Cross emblems, metal underbody AB brake parts and Allied Full Cushion truck side frames. This decal set (#197-97005 ) includes lettering for a wide variety of other auxiliary medical service cars as well. It is also offered separately at $9.95. The kitchen car accepts Kadee ® draft gear boxes for coupler mounting. Cannonball Car shops kits are designed for modelers with moderate kit building experience. They are designed, tooled and made in the USA. Further prototype specific military train cars and some of their conversions are promised on the kit maker's website, www.mrrwarehouse.com. Jpg of Hospital Car #197-9708 is a pre-production model. Jpg of Hospital Kitchen Car #197-9710 is a production model
JULY 1, 2004 The Studio Model RR Warehouse can now offer CUSTOM PROFESSIONALLY ASSEMBLED models and CUSTOM PREPARED KITS at affordable prices because they will be made in small runs to fulfill advance orders called to 1-800-672-8762. These items are the summer 2004 repertoire: HO SCALE assembled PRR Eastern Car Works Heavyweight Passenger Cars. Painted & decaled , KD wheels & couplers Each $75.00 Special: #1123 Coaches ordered with other cars $70 each MANN'S CREEK HOPPER CARS Red Ball with std trks and KD couplers or link & pin Each $85.00 w/non operating doors each $105.00 w/operating doors MANN'S CREEK LOG CARS Red Ball with std trucks and KD Couplers or LP two $85.00 B&M EXPRESS CAR Red Ball painted decaled, KD wheels & couplers $ 95.00 B&O C17 EXPRESS CAR Red Ball painted, decaled, KD wheel & coupler$ 95.00 REA or NYC single gray EXPRESS CAR Red Ball ptd, decal, KD whl cplr $95.00 NYC 2 tone gray EXPRESS CAR Red Ball ptd ,decal, KD wheel & cplr $110.00 Ex troop express cars have handrails. For detailed underbody-add $25.00 O SCALE assembled PULLMAN TROOP SLEEPER BBGT brass body, painted & decaled $285.00 Available with wooden floor, AB brake sets & steps L/trks $350 (working on Allied trucks) MANN'S CREEK HOPPER CARS less trucks w or wo link & pin $95.00 MANN'S CREEK LOG CARS less trucks w or wo link pin couplers two $95.00 F SCALE (1/20.3) assembled MANN'S CREEK LOG CARS less trucks w or wo link pin couplers $95.00 F SCALE wood & brass kit MANN'S CREEK HOPPER CARS $155.00 S SCALE assembled PULLMAN TROOP SLEEPER BBGT painted & decaled body $285.00 S SCALE wood & brass kit MANN'S CREEK HOPPER CARS six car $595 tencar $ 750.00 MANN'S CREEK LOG CARS six cxar$395 ten car $495.00 N SCALE wood & brass kit MANN'S CREEK HOPPER CARS ten cars $595.00 MANN'CREEK LOG CARS ten cars $395.00 STUDIO ITEMS ARE CUSTOM PRODUCED AND ARE NOT IN OPEN STOCK. The STUDIO will present a different repertoire each quarter of the year. These items are sold direct to the consumer. Dealers are welcome to order net at the prices listed above. MODEL RAILROAD WAREHOUSE PO Box 411, Roanoke, IN 46783 www.mrrwarehouse.com
MOW TROOP CAR LINK UPDATES 2004 Most MOW conversions of anything-troop cars, old boxcars, passenger cars, flats etc. is done at the direction of a local wreck master or master mechanic/ No two can be assumed alike, and documentation is the exception, not the rule. A vast resource exists from the photos of John C. Larue Jr. whose photo catalogs (and photos) are nominally priced. John's e address is ( mofwcaboose at aol.com ) if you wish to inquire about the catalogs he offers. As a result of increasing awareness of the role that troop cars played in the last half century - and what they look like-many are being discovered these days on various photo posting websites. We'd suggest a study of our own kits and photo resources on this page first. Many sources mistakenly mislabel the cars-note the differences between windows of kitchen and sleeper cars. Doorways of sleepers were often widened due to their narrow width. Their off center position made this relatively easy. Kitchen car's wider doors were seldom modified. The Cannonball HO kits were specifically designed to allow kitbashing to copy prototype car bashing using only photos as a guide. Red Ball express cars with brass sides simplify those modifications and BBGT offers them in other scales pending sufficient reservations. But NOW while the Cannonball reject sleepers and their kitchen cars are available is a great time to create prototype MofW conversions. Sightings of ex troop cars have become more frequent than Elvis sightings. When this page was started there were few and we cataloged them by road but the task could become full time servitude for Shambles, our webmaster. SOOO.. as we receive links to posted troop pictures we'll ask him to paste them in here for your study and enjoyment. TROOP MOW Links CLICK HERE
WINTER WEB SPECIALS (model built by Bill Basden of Delta Models-Portland Oregon) 'For more prototype info, click here'
RAILROAD SIGNALING by Brian Solomon a new 160 page hardcover explanation of prototype signaling practice chock full of color illustrations & photos, If you need to read the book first (then study the Oregon Rail page on our website) to determine what signals you need that's OK. Explain that to Barbara when you call and authorize her to charge non-refundable $160 + book shipping to your card now. Then order the signals later-even after this offer expires. The book will be promptly shipped charging the special postal media rate (US) . Any additional signal value will be charged at time of signal order shipment. NORTH AMERICAN RAILYARDS by Michael Rhodes A new 240 page hardcover introduction to the major US & Canadian railyards with color photos, maps and understandable explanations of their history and operation. There is no better time to start bringing your pike's signal and switch detailing up to the same standards you expect from the Prototype Specific locos and cars offered on the Model Railroad Warehouse website. These new books , Oregon Rail and Central Valley can help. MRRW does not distribute these books. We have secured a limited number of them to assist a limited number of our Prototype Specific customers meet their own standards of excellence. They are available from MRRW ONLY UNDER THESE FREE TERMS. Limit one each book per customer. POSTED JANUARY 9,2004-This offer will expire without notice. Our standard shipping charge will apply to the merchandise in these offers. The $160+ merchandise must be placed in ONE lot order and does not apply to previous purchases There may be delays in shipping while we await book supply replenishments.
Subject: Theft Alert Monday, February 10, 2003 9:11 PM Subject: [traintools] Theft alert! 'Last night, thieves forcibly broke in at the Strasburg Rail Road's engine house, and took the following items: 1.)--The number plates from engines #31, #90, #475. 2.)--Classification lights from engines #31, and #89. 3.)--1 new classification light. 4.)--6 rear end marker lamps, 4 kerosene, and 2 converted to battery operation. 5.)--1 photograph of engine #89 on the Green > Mountain. Side view with specifications. 6.)--1 Strasburg Rail Road rule book. Red loose leaf format. 7.)--1 Small (about ½ normal size) locomotive brass bell and yoke. 8.)--1 ICC steam locomotive defect chart. They also forced open (and destroyed in the process) a steel door to the back shop, but we haven't spotted anything missing from in there yet. It appears that there were two perpetrators in that they left many footprints and tire tracks in the snow. Pennsylvania State Police are investigating. They seemed to have a specific 'shopping list' in that they took only rail fan collectibles, and only specific ones at that. We at the Strasburg Rail Road ask for the help of the community to return our property to us, and to bring these criminals to justice. If anyone has any information, please call the Strasburg Rail Road at 717-687-8421 MODEL RAILROAD WAREHOUSE 235 N MAIN, PO Box 411, ROANOKE, IN 46783 Our toll free 800-672-8762 line is now ready for those that cannot order online.
Wabash Valley Lines, Inc. OPERATED BY MODEL RAILROAD WAREHOUSE 235 N MAIN, PO Box 411, ROANOKE, IN 46783 November 1, 2002 RED BALL, known since 1939 for introducing variety and unique prototype kits to model railroading, is retiring the printing plates which were used to produce over 200 different prototype refrigerator car sides and over 100 scribed boxcars during the 1939-1975 golden era of HO. The plates will be offered as one-of-a-kind souvenirs mounted on finished hardwood bases. Engraved brass plaques will identify them as the authentic production tooling used to print the Red Ball kits now sought after by collectors. Most plates are of the standard zinc design used in letterpress printing though some were a hard rubber composition. The 'desk top' style displays will be hand produced in spring of 2003 to fulfill reservations received by April 15,2003. Most prices will range from $25 to $95 depending on the options and car chosen. A special catalog of the carsides with ordering information is being prepared and will be mailed (beginning in December) for a refundable (with purchase of a mounted plate) charge of $4.00. Carside preferences will be honored on a first come basis with the reservation postmark date the determining factor. For clerical and legal reasons, only mail orders using the order form in the special catalog will be accepted. Red Ball has been owned by Wabash Valley Lines, Inc. (Huntington, IN) since 1975. Car sides by Wabash Valley have been produced on scribed wood by silk screening and, a few late editions of the 1980's, by pad printing. The printed cars were produced by M Dale Newton until 1955 and by Howell Day (Dunellen, NJ) 1955-75. They utilized heavy cardstock, which was 'scribed' by impression with a rule die on the letterpress. Mr. Day made a few laminated paper/wood sided cars and some specialty cars used a paper wrap. In addition to the printed side cars, the Red Ball line has featured about 200 unique prototypes with their own crisply die cast metal parts since World War II. The rare pre-war Red Ball line is mostly unknown to today's collectors but it included many cars with plastic castings. Mr. Newton reestablished the line after a devastating fire at his Medford, Oregon plant. Mr. Day was an early importer of Japanese brass models that were also marketed under the Red Ball brand. He also sold the very first HO styrene car kits, Kurtz Kraft's PS1 boxcars and steel reefers, under the Red Ball brand for a period of time. Remaining Red Ball card sides were last marketed by Wabash Valley Lines. Inc in simplified economy craftsman kits of the late 1970s under the QuicKits brand name. The car sides and kits are now prized in the collector market.
September 10, 2002 MODEL RAILROAD WAREHOUSE 235 N MAIN, PO Box 411, ROANOKE, IN 46783 RAILROADERS AND RAILFANS WANTED: WW II TROOP AND HOSPITAL CARS As manufacturers of the Cannonball WW II TROOP TRAIN cars We have been co-operating with a new World Class Museum of World War II which expects to open later in 2002 in mid-America. This museum will house an impressive collection of the weapons and vehicles of the nations involved in that conflict and is intended as a tribute to the veterans of WW II. Though they have the tanks, half tracks and all, their collection does not include the troop cars -- sleepers and kitchen cars -- which carried our men to the ports and forts. We have been asked whether we can help locate cars (troop sleepers, a kitchen car and hospital cars) that might become available for preservation and inclusion in this museum. There are sleepers (particularly) still relatively unmodified and in MofW use around the country. If you are aware of any cars still in service or surplus in rail museums which could be possibilities for restoration and preservation, please notify us at fax 260-672-1714, by mail or at ( museumcars at mrrwarehouse.com ) The car's location and ownership (road number if possible) would be key information. Railroads/fans wishing to donate WWII cars may be encouraged to know the museum is located near a CSX mainline and yards and gifts would be to a non profit foundation. The display may be sheltered within view of a major Interstate at the museum exit or inside the museum as deemed appropriate for the number of cars available. The community is also home to a highly respected world-class classic auto museum and annual meet-all conducted by permanent staffing in a highly professional manner.
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