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This model is noted on IM’s site as ‘numbers 25-30’. In other words, the same inaccurate item that they’ve always sold. Looking at other similar models, it’s apparent that they don’t change the art on prototypes that carried several different paint schemes over the years, which is no doubt self-defeating. Evidently they don’t get that a different paint scheme would likely draw many more sales than just the same thing with different numbers.
We did receive positive responses and an updated design sheet from them on two others, one of which I believe is the former Red Caboose 40′ welded side boxcar that has not been released yet (a model that got caught in the collapse of the Chinese manufacturer). Time will tell if that’s what actually gets produced.
A look at that car on the IM site, stock number RR-38703, shows a riveted car whose prototype was a DeSoto-built car. The lettering is much better than the art that was first posted, which is what prompted us to offer comments in the first place. The stock numbers would indicate that this car has already been released once (stock numbers 1-6 would have been the first ones). I don’t remember seeing this one before, though.
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