Anyone interested in these types of Korber Kits?

I forgot about that auction, and didn't bid.  I wanted the kit as an RPO mail center, or

an REA facility for a yard full of RPO and baggage cars.  you snooze, you lose...

maybe the new owners of korber would consider remaking the whole kit as well as the ad-on sections. I woukld be interested in a couple of the whole kit as well as add-on sections

Larry S.

We are looking at these kits as we sort through the parts and molds.

They are an interesting system.

Hey shoe those are cool looking pictures you posted of possible buildings.

I've sent a couple of email requests to Rich at Korber since he took over to resurrect that kit. It has so many possibilities I'd love to see it make a come back!

Would be a nice addition to the power plant diorama area.

The building has the look of the steam era

I like and use that other company modular brick building parts. I'd like a slightly more modern system.....like this posted. And while we are at it a modular Art Deco style city building system too! 

Thanks Guys,

I too really like the look and the possibilities.

These kits used a mix of injection molded polystyrene, and poured urethane parts to make the total kit.

There is very little documentation on these kits and parts, so some of these have been a bit of a hunt to figure them out., and I still am.

In the next year we hope to get these back on line, but not certain yet.

These kits have great potential to make some super background buildings, large factories and even some smaller structures.

In general some great looking additions to the railroad.

But like everything it takes time.  I am just now re-writing instructions for the 306 2 stall diesel shed kit and processing new photos.

This too is a pretty cool kit that we are about to bring back, that I think was over looked because it had a really poor black and white photo.

Here is the 306 2 Stall Diesel Shed 

Below are some more photos of kits made from the modular line.

I love the modular buildings in the previous post...and while I don't have an engine service area on my layout...the diesel shed can be a great industrial building with a little bashing.  I love the idea of modular structures.

Rich:  Years ago a company named Uhlrich, which was an HO gauge kit supplier, offered a "modular" factory building kit series.   Back in my Ho Ho days, the late 1950's and early 1960's, I used several of their kits to build a five story factory building, with an open space in the center, for a rail siding, and decorated it as an automobile factory.

The concept of the series was to build upon a basic building, which consisted of two long sides, two short sides or ends, one floor/foundation piece with grooves into which the tabs at the bottom of the sides would fit.  Similarly, the roof section had grooves that those tabs also fit. All of the parts were injection molded plastic of the type that accepted plastic cement for permanent assembly.

The "short" sides were exactly 1/2 the length of the "long" side  You could make a basic 2 story building by adding one floor/foundation section, two more short and two more long sides.  You could also expand the building out either length-wise or width-wise by adding an appropriate number of pieces for the addition.  The sides themselves were molded in several patterns to represent a blank brick wall, a brick wall with a large factory window, a loading platform and door, or a walk through door entrance.  The ends of the wall sections had a 45 degree taper so the wall could either join another wall with a 90 degree joint or simply adjoin another straight wall section.

I always thought that the concept was pretty clever and I remember seeing many variations of buildings that guys had built as custom buildings for a specific purpose or location.  Your "modular" design buildings on the photos seem to follow along the general theme of those old Uhlrich "Expand-o-Buildings", and would have great appeal particularly to those, like me, who are "constructionally impaired" or just don't have the time to scratch build a specific building.

I'm going to have to take a closer look at your system this next Spring at York.

Paul Fischer

I also would like the modular building system