N&W caboose project Spring Mills Depot status

Wed Apr 13 09:51:30 EDT 2022

Rip
I agree. They are doing the best they can. I've been in this hobby for decades and it is such a great one, that I don't really mind having skin in the game with my money if some folks are willing to pursue difficult projects. Sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn't, but you need the people to give it a try and people to help fund it. Many of those models will be around a long time after we are gone.
Jim 

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Subject: Re: N&W caboose project Spring Mills Depot status

 Jim:  I'm a carbon copy of you.  In 2014, I ordered and paid for a couple of I-5s too, and I have their wagon-top cabooses and a couple of B&O boxcars too.
I have no problem with Bill & Ken and their operation.  No one else has even dreamed of accomplishing what those guys have already done.
Rip 
    On Tuesday, April 12, 2022, 08:59:26 AM EDT, NW Modeling List via NW-Modeling-List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:  

 I'm one who has ordered and paid for B&O wood cabooses back in 2014. Spring Mills is just a couple of guys who are pursuing perfection in their models and have had a lot of bad luck over the past few years. Pretty tough times for a small manufacturer to succeed in producing great models. I did get their B&O wagontop caboose and covered hopper. They are superb!Sometime this stuff just happens. I do wish they would communicate a little better.
Jim Kehn

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Subject: Re: N&W caboose project Spring Mills Depot status

Spring Mills has released their DODX flat cars, which they moved to the front of the line because they were a simpler project and a good test for their new factory.  In theory, Spring Mills has B&O cabooses that predate the N&W, so I can see them bringing those out first.  Hopefully at this point they have all the research regarding details and paint colors done, so it's just a matter of getting in line at the factory, but that still puts the cabooses months if not a year or two out.
Marty Flick
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Subject: Re: N&W caboose project Spring Mills Depot status

My last communication with them was last year, andthey assured me it was still going to happen, so that's thebest 'from the source' info I have.  I  pre-ordered 13 (I think) cabins and a bunch of caboosetrucks, so I email them once a year.  I do wish they would putupdates on their website from time to time.  For some actual good news, they just receivedthe DDOX flatcars last month, so that is some progress..This is listed on their website.
>From other sources in the hobby, I have heard there were aseries of bad events in the model productionindustry (model rr factories shutting down for variousreasons, one reason being environmental issues, and another beingowner retirement) that also affected Spring Mills. Thisrequired all manufacturers to scramble for new production options.One can reasonably assume a smaller group like Spring Mills wouldget lower priority than BLI or Athearn, etc..... Obviously COVIDcaused various significant forms of disruption over there, andthings seem to have finally started moving again within this pastyear.
Mike Rector
On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 11:21 AMNW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>wrote:

To the group:
Has anyone had contact with Spring Mills Depot on the N&S CFCaboose
project?
This goes back all the way to 2017.
v/r
Eric

Eric Raitch
Gainesville, VA

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