Any new tooling?

I have no idea how much is new or what they have made prior to this, but the MTH SD60 Emergency responder engines (pgs 94-95) say 'new tooling' on each engine. The same engines in the Lionel catalog say 'new body and crescent cab tooling' (pgs 14-15). That is all I remember seeing in either of the new catalogs.

Yes the crescent cabs would need new tooling to be made correctly.

The 8-door 86' High-Cube boxcars.

 

 

https://ogrforum.com/t...onel-s-new-sd40-sd38

The cost of cutting molds in Asia has almost tripled in the last ten years.  Simple supply and demand. Same number of tooling companies....more demand. Our hobby is a tiny segment. Add that to a library full of tooling paid for long ago......reissues are the answer......small additions or changes are affordable.....but complete tools in a soft market.....not as easy.

AMCDave is always a voice of logic, or more accurately, reality, when it comes to these types of questions. He got it right.

 

But don't take his word for it. Mike Wolf addresses this very question.

 

These TCA presentations from YORK week are always worth taking the time to view. Very often, questions that are frequently asked here on the forum, are answered by the company CEO's and representatives in these presentations. But considering the low view numbers, not many people are bothering to take advantage of these valuable presentations made by the various train companies.

 

I quit going to the company presentations, at the TCA HQ, when the subject was

only electronics (and the building has no seating for those presentations), as I have

no interest.  When Weaver and others (don't remember if Third Rail participated) and

there was variety and new items, I went.  No news is NOT good news.

What about additional types of doors for existing box cars and refrigerator cars?

 

How expensive is it to produce new door variations?

 

 

Andrew