N&W caboose project Spring Mills Depot status

[NW Modeling List]

I keep holding out hope BLI will do an M.  It's sort of an honorary PRR
engine at this point, living at Strasburg.

Mike Rector

On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 6:37 PM NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> Broadway Limited announced a CF about 10 years ago, but it was cancelled.
> I can't remember if it was due to lack of orders or if it was caught up in
> some of those tooling theft lawsuits.
>
> I have to believe that an N&W CF would sell at least as well as a Missabe
> or C&O wood caboose like Walthers has produced.  Of course, N&W would seem
> to be an obvious choice for Athearn Genesis GP9's, but other than one run
> of Redbirds and some ex-NKP or Wabash units, I don't think they've done
> any.  Manufacturers often seem to have a "playlist", and N&W is seldom on
> it.  How else do you explain SP and UP 4-8-2's, PRR decapods and atlantics,
> and C&O streamlined hudsons, but no N&W M, S1/S1a, or streamlined 4-8-2?
>
> Marty Flick
>
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>
> Anybody got any guesses why no model manufacturer hasn't offered a
> reasonably accurate, plastic, steam-era N&W caboose in the past 50
> years?
>
> Seems like they would only sell about a 1000 of them in the first year.
>
> I can't even remember how many SMD cabs I reserved. But it was/is a lot.
>
> John Garner, Newport VA
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