Reply To: HO Intermountain Route of the Eagles Boxcars

[David Boeschen]

Nate:

I tried digging for my emails with Intermountain from the original discussions, but haven’t come up with them yet. I might have conflated those with some others in the release. If they’d ever planned to do the ACF car (38875-39014), they’re not now doing it.

My main point is the fact that we contacted Intermountain and they did change the lettering, at least based on what’s now shown.

I have never seen any previous version of this model, to the best of my knowledge. In fact, I’d never realized this MP model had ever been done before. I don’t know If it had been done by Red Caboose. The original Red Caboose version actually had a number of problems, and I never built the one or two I’d picked up. Some have not been corrected even yet, but it’s closer. Incidentally, the website no longer lists the RR- prefix for these cars, and now it shows stock numbers -7 to -12, as if six numbers had been previously released.

I ordered a few undecs of that Intermountain Red Caboose re-release welded side 8′ door car, since I would prefer to decal my MP cars when the commercially printed version is substandard. I probably also ordered a couple of Wabash cars and a couple other welded side cars that have never been correctly done before, but any other riveted side 8′ door cars with 4-3-1 improved (banana-taper) Dreadnought ends I’d probably do from Branchline.

This car that’s on the website now appears to be riveted side, 8′ door, which fits with the numbers being announced. Those DeSoto-built cars (35350-38874) had a longer sidesill reinforcement than the one on the model (as is also true for the Branchline model of the same car). Still, the Branchline car is not going to be readily available, so this one is the next reasonable alternative.

RG7