Golden Gate - REA Express Reefers

We had samples of the REA express reefers at York last October and will have them there again in 2 weeks.  The production run is just about completed and ready to be shipped from China this month.

 

Additionally, samples of the GGD PRR Congressional Limited and NYC 1948 20th Century Limited trains will be at York. All of these came from China.

I received an email this morning that they are arriving in May---

What radius curve will these be able to take?

I have both of the pictured coming!

Santa Fe all the way!

Finally the REAs are ready to ship to us. Some factories just are hard to deal with.

 

The point of my posts before, regarding the trials and tribulations in Chinese factories, was to answer the many doubts that we would be able to weather this storm. On the contrary, we are rockin.

 

The 1948 20th Century Cars left port of Qingdao April 2nd. Due to arrive on the 16th.

The PRR Congressional is in production and the samples, while PENNSYYVANIA was spelled wrong, are in production and will be completed later this month.

The REA cars are to be put in a container on April 15th.

The SP GS-4 Daylight sample will be at York.

The Erie S3/S4 design has been picked up by another builder and should be done late this year.

The N&W Strasburg Engine will be finished this fall.

The N&W TE-1 design will be started this summer.

The PRR L-1 and Horse Express, Theater Scenery and BM70M PRR Car Designs are done.

The E7 2nd Run is Planned for Summer.

The FL9 Design is in review by a few N&W Historical Senior Members.

 

We are busy, and in no way affected by factory closures.

 

Have a great spring. And come see us at York. We will have samples of these and more great models.

 

Cheers,

 

Scott Mann

Scott Congrats to you and your firm for perservering; dealing with offshore production is tricky... We are eager to get the cars and see your new introductions.

Two thumbs up to Scott for is courteous and efficient customer service, his excellent products, and his skillful interaction with Asian manufacturing and design firms. He is too modest to admit that the success of Sunset/3rd Rail/Golden Gate is entirely attributable to the business practices planted by his late father Mort, and nurtured to new heights by Scott. What a pleasure it is to be a customer of a company that can always be trusted to do the right thing for the right reason. I sent payment for my four ATSF/REX cars last week. Building the Fast Mail a little at a time . . .

Scott,

 

Thanks for the updates and very glad to hear you again managed to deal successfully with the China factory closing issues.

 

Looking forward to future updates and continuing good news!

Can these puppies do O-31?

I would think so. The sample models have truck mounted couplers.

Any idea when we will be seeing the C&O cabooses, thanks

Since this is the 3RS Forum, and those of us modelers here remove the lobster claws and up-grade to Kadee couplers, negotiating O-31 curves with body mounted Kadees probably isn't in the cards.

REA Cars are Here! We begin shipping this week.

 

It has been a long wait.

 

We hope you like them.

 

Scott Mann

I was thrilled to get a UPS ship notice about 4 today----thanks Scott and Marcie!

those of us modelers here remove the lobster claws and up-grade to Kadee couplers

 

This time I just ordered 2 rail versions.  It will be interesting to see how the 2R flanges work out.

Just opened mine this afternoon---fantastic!

Any pictures?

 

Did you order yours direct from GGD?

 

I ordered mine through a dealer and suspect there may be a little bit of a time lag unless GGD will ship direct for them.

I ordered from Scott (Golden Gate)...

We are done shipping the orders we have received so far. 

 

I put the remaining stock up on our GGD website if you are interested in buying one. A second run is not likely.

 

http://www.goldengatedepot.com/reacar-buy.html

 

Have a great week.

Scott Mann