Update on the Springmill Depot preorder of N&W Caboose

[NW Modeling List]

I ordered my B&O I-5's and I-1 when they were first announced and have been waiting ever since. They will be worth the wait if they are as good as the I-12 and covered hoppers. Those poor guys at Springmill Depot have to be just frustrated as can be dealing with the Chinese.
Maybe it's time to look for another country that can do the job.

Jim Kehn 
  
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I really hope that the N&W caboose don't take as long as the B&O caboose's. I ordered my I5's in June of 2014 and we're hoping to have them this year. They have done such accurate and beautiful work that I can't wait to see both the B&O and N&W models.
Larry Brown 


On Fri, Jul 20, 2018, 12:01 PM NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

Gentlemen:
I got an update from Bill Carl of Spingmill Depot on the disposition of 
the N&W preordered Caboose.

Apparently things are screwed up in China at the moment.  But,it has 
nothing to do with the trade war but rather the new environmental 
regulations the Chinese government is implementing on -ALL- factories.  
Bill stated that Intermountain has stopped putting dates on their 
projects and instead are using status eg Taking Orders, In Production, 
Shipping, etc.  He also stated that Rapido has posted some videos on 
YouTube explaining the difficulties they are experiencing as well.

Also, capitalism is working in China as their factory had a lot of 
workers who did not return after the Chinese New Year because they took 
higher paying jobs at other factories.  So the  plant manager is working 
through several issues and they are trying to assist him where they can. 
  Bill said that he is working toward sending a mass email soon 
explaining some of the finer details.

He has no dates at the moment but believes the cars will arrive in the 
following order:
B&O I-5 cabooses (Alton, GM&O)
B&O I-1/2/3 cabooses (Alton, GM&O, SIRT, BC&G, B&OCT, etc)
DODX flat cars
N&W cabooses

Eric Raitch
Gainesville, VA

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