Wednesday, July 9, 2014 at 12:39PM More pre-production photos - classic N & W and Burlington Northern PC-90s. As you probably guessed it, most railroads begin equipping their piggy-back operations with piggy-packers to speed loading and unloading of trains. BN had a variety of logo design on their units. A photo of this BN one appeared in Jane's Freight Container book.;)
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Tuesday, July 8, 2014 at 10:36PM Here's a pre-production photo of our HO scale FWD Wagner Piggy-Packer. The strongman logo on the FWD units are different than the Raygo Wagner ones. FWD's are the earlier models.;)
Tuesday, July 8, 2014 at 09:43PM Here's a pre-production shot of our HO scale CSX Piggy-Packer. Noticed the logos on the left and right sides are different - just like the real thing!;)
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Friday, July 4, 2014 at 12:15AM On my recent travels, I am always on a lookout for a little bit of history. My interest in history, if you haven't noticed, is in our Wheels of Time trains and vehicles. So case and point: the once ubiquitous searchlight signals that I have taken for granted for so many years are almost completely vanished from the American railroad landscape. A few photos for the record: Two from Sacramento which are no longer around; one recently taken in Redding; and one preserved at Niles Canyon. So when you are on your road trip this summer, check it out. See how many searchlight signals you've find. And by the way, the great thing about model railroad is that you can still recreate it in miniature! Happy model railroading!;)
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Thursday, June 19, 2014 at 02:12PM A few of you have asked about the schedule of our HO scale PC-90 Piggy-Packer so here's the latest.
Pre-productions samples should be arriving next week. Once approved (if no mistakes in pre-production models), then production will begin. I anticipate 1.25 months for actual running of production + 1 month for shipping. Estimated shipping to all looks like mid-Sept.
Just FYI - the time when I initiate production with the factory to pre-production time is typically taken up by a) queue for factory production time, b) lead time for acquisition of parts, c) development of paint mask + pad print tooling, d) any mold work prep. So figuring out the schedule is more of an art here than a precise science.
However, we are almost here!
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