Fallen Flags, (vanished mfrs.)

Colorado harailer.

 

Please contact Intergrated Signals System. Tim, was talking to them. But it I don't know if anything ever materialized out of it.

 

Tim, doesn't subscrides to the forum. You will have to e-mail him on his web-site.

 

I think he was only looking take over the Signals portion that was left over not anything else.....  

 

Good Luck, John 

Intermountain Railway and Red Caboose currently sell HO and N Scale freight cars kits, in the past both companies also marketed highly detailed "O" Scale freight kits. With these two companies and Weaver closing, the only company in my opinion and I may be wrong that sells the full line of"O" Scale freight cars is AtlasO.

Pride Lines, McCoy and Rich Art as well as Walthers O scale Cornerstone building kits, Industrial Rail blue box cars, Keystone O scale craftsman kits, Bowser O Scale (ex Pittman) trolleys, Western Hobbycraft Trolleys and Model Power buildings and figures have all ended in the last 10 years or so and should be added to the fallen flags list.

Crown was the source of some of the first Weaver body molds. The woodside reefer and outside braced boxcar for sure, and I forget what else. I think the steel 1930's boxcar might also have been a Crown mold. If you look at the chassis of any 40' Weaver car made from an older mold, you will see the letters CMP - they never removed them from the mold. Crown cars are essentially identical to Weaver, and if you don't have the box you really don't know which is which. 

Unless I am guessing wrong Keil Line is still going as I recently got some of their O Scale passenger car products from Walthers and a lot more were listed as special order items. There have been previous threads about them and difficulties in making contact, which is hardly surprising for a small family run business.

Ring out the old bring in the new- the nature of business

1.Pride Lines

 

2.Design Preservation Models

 

 

3.Bowser

 

4.Motor City USA

 

Four manufacturers that made some items I really like.All of them were American manufacturers.It is sad Weaver is on the gone but not forgotten list now too.

Dan

 

I forgot Ameritrains.

Dan

 

Not O scale,but the biggest loss to me was the demise of the Remco Mighty Casey.It lasted only one year,1970.They had big plans for expanding the line,including switches and a caboose,but it was cancelled before the they went into mass production with the additional items.

Dan

Colorado highrailer are you thinking about Berkshire Valley? Another one was details by Bob Rzasa - which was picked up by DesPlains hobbies.
Custom Signals is another fallen flag along with Intermountain Railway for O scale. Industrial Rail another fallen flag.

Floquil paint - was acquired by Testors, who ultimately dropped the line.

Lost manufacturers, dare I mention automobile manufacturers?  Now, there were some losses to lots of folks. 

Is anybody looking for that Mighty Casey Remco?...I have some that I won't do anything with, and there was a guy at York with a card wanting it, but he wanted it deliveredto York, which wasn't convenient.

Is Industrial Rail a fallen flag?...I am kitbashing something of theirs right now.  I

thought they were still operating.

Yes, Berkshire Valley, but they have been picked up, as I heard.

If you check Model Railroader and Narrow Gauge and Short Line Gazette, their new

products sections have plenty of that...most for HO and N...in this scale it is who is

closing.

They are fallen as a separate entity.

 

Atlas-O picked up some of their line, I believe to appeal to the lower end less scale focused items.  The "new products" section of the Atlas-O Industrial Rail offerings has a last post of over 5 years ago, I don't follow Atlas-O enough to know if it's still actively offering product or if it's sort of stagnant.

 

-Dave

Yeah but where is the new? The most recent new is Menards.

 

Oh and I would add Chooch Ultra Scale building flats to the list of relatativly recently ended O scale companies.

Well, bad news.  With the Bowser trolley gone as a source for powered trucks, and

now Industrial Rail, which were much quieter and smoother, what else is there?  I

looked at that Atlas Industrial Rail list (Thanks!) and saw the 4-4-2, but it is on

high drivers, but I haven't seen any of those for a while.  I tried to get one or more

of those ETS driver sets that someone on here sent me to, but the guy did not respond

after I stated what I wanted.  Guess I will have to check them in the Orange Hall next

York.

As mentioned in this thread, the CEO of ETS passed away about 1 1/2 months ago.  I do not believe any announcements have been made regarding the future of the company.  So you may or may not be able to visit with them in the Orange hall next York.

 

-Dave

Pecos River Brass - I think the owner just threw in the towel and retired.  I still see him at train shows.

Right of Way - famous for a monster transformer and double stack cars.