N&W caboose project Spring Mills Depot status

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I keep wishing that BLI would produce a CF caboose.
With all the N&W steam they sell, you'd think it would be a no-brainer.

Mike Rector

On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 7:03 PM NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> I agree with Roger, what SMD is doing is unbelievable. I found a Overland
> a year ago and went with that for N&W.
>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 12:27 PM NW Modeling List via NW-Modeling-List <
> nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>
>> Mike,
>>
>> I agree 100% about the disrespect nature of their dealings with customers
>> who only want to support their projects. Yes, it's just 2 guys and they
>> have jobs and families and all that but, seriously, just how long does it
>> take to send one email to a group or two advising of the issues they have
>> run in to? I really can't buy that excuse. People are normally patient but
>> there is a limit to patience.
>>
>> It has been since 2013 (I believe) that they claimed to start on the I-1
>> B&O caboose. I understand all the stuff about the Chinamen being on
>> vacation, strike, days off, closing factories, and blame it on covid like
>> everything else, etc but there have been tons of HO and other products
>> produced since then by many small and large manufacturers. Look at Rapido!
>> they announce something and it's not long before modelers have it in their
>> hands to nitpick. Same with all but SMD.
>>
>> I agree SMD has produced the finest models I have ever seen in any scale
>> since 1956 when I started out with getting in to all this. I'm a serious
>> modeler and truly appreciate fidelity to detail and gorgeous paint but I
>> don't "do" contest models and I'm close to 72 and don't know if I can
>> outlast SMD's lousy delivery schedule. I'm not knocking folks that want
>> prototypical details and thicknesses of walls, wires and stuff but I'd
>> personally settle for a Balboa or Westside CF cabin car behind my M-2s and
>> enjoy my trains than maybe wait another 3-8 years for them to get off the
>> pot and deliver what they have long promised.
>>
>> If you are aware you can't meet the production of an announced product in
>> a reasonable time WHY announce other projects you can't put out to loyal
>> customers?
>>
>> I'm like so many B&O and N&W modelers hoping for beautifully detailed,
>> quality cars and left with nothing but cancelled checks and silence.
>>
>> Just my 2¢.
>>
>> Roger Huber
>> Deer Creek Locomotive Works
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, April 14, 2022, 10:00:25 AM CDT, NW Modeling List <
>> nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Roger, this is really my only concern with them. It's disrespectful of
>> the loyal customer base to not provide any updates to the website, pretty
>> much at all over the past four-five years.
>>
>> If they would only update the website every 6 months or so, I don't think
>> anybody would be complaining. (Well, someone will always complain! But you
>> get the point)
>>
>> No one can argue that they have made phenomenal models so far. If the N&W
>> cabins look anywhere near as good as their previous caboose run, I think we
>> will be very fortunate.
>>
>> Regarding brass options as someone else mentioned, I'm not giving up on
>> those either!  I have five or six stripped Westside Models brass cabins on
>> my workbench that I walk past every couple days. I just need to get the nut
>> bolt washer castings drilled and installed under the cupola sides on the
>> CF's, and I will be ready to paint them.  I'm debating doing an interior,
>> now that I can easily 3D model and print it.
>>
>> Mike Rector
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 8:20 AM NW Modeling List via NW-Modeling-List <
>> nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>>
>> Amen! I think I'll take my chances on the brass market NOW rather than
>> lots of hopes and promises at an undetermined time. Yes, they do good work
>> but they have pretty bad business practices when they make promises of
>> products many, many years into the future and haven't the decency to report
>> any status to folks who have trusted them with their hard earned money to
>> come through. I'll put my faith in a given...Balboa and Westside.
>>
>> Roger Huber
>> Deer Creek Locomotive Works
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, April 13, 2022, 09:17:13 PM CDT, NW Modeling List <
>> nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 4/13/2022 9:51 AM, NW Modeling List via NW-Modeling-List wrote:
>>
>> > Many of those models will be around a long time after we are gone.
>>
>> Then again, many of us might be gone before the cab ever comes around! ;)
>>
>> Jimmy Lisle
>>
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