Is Kramer Products Still in Business?

I am very interested in this topic because I believe Kramer Products made my baseball figures in the 1990s, and I would like to get more O Scale baseball figures from them. 

A few months ago I also notice their website was down.

Arnold, that is my exact interest as well. I have the fielding team but not the batting team. I just did a search using the waybackmachine web page. It looks like the last snapshot they have is September 2017. This is there  phone number of 1-800-315-1712 or 412-466-8020. There is also an email address  contact of marian@kramerproducts.comcastbiz.net

cliff24g posted:

Arnold, that is my exact interest as well. I have the fielding team but not the batting team. I just did a search using the waybackmachine web page. It looks like the last snapshot they have is September 2017. This is there  phone number of 1-800-315-1712 or 412-466-8020. There is also an email address  contact of marian@kramerproducts.comcastbiz.net

I got the exact same players. Thanks for the contact info, Cliff.

Arnold

This past February,  while our club was set up at the Central VFD train show in Elizabeth Twp, Pa,  an individual approached our members asking if anyone was interested in purchasing the tooling and molds of Kramer Products.   The individual stated that the owners of Kramer Products had retired and he was selling their equipment.   Don't know if he had purchased everything from Kramer and was reselling or whether he was acting as an agent on Kramer's behalf.    Some of club members have a number of their metal figures.   Kramer Products is/was a mom/pop enterprise from my hometown area of West Mifflin, Pa.   I don't think that anyone obtained the sellers name due to the price he mentioned was well into the thousands of dollars.

Nick

machinist posted:

This past February,  while our club was set up at the Central VFD train show in Elizabeth Twp, Pa,  an individual approached our members asking if anyone was interested in purchasing the tooling and molds of Kramer Products.   The individual stated that the owners of Kramer Products had retired and he was selling their equipment.   Don't know if he had purchased everything from Kramer and was reselling or whether he was acting as an agent on Kramer's behalf.    Some of club members have a number of their metal figures.   Kramer Products is/was a mom/pop enterprise from my hometown area of West Mifflin, Pa.   I don't think that anyone obtained the sellers name due to the price he mentioned was well into the thousands of dollars.

Nick

 

Thanks Nick

Arnold and Cliff, as hard as o scale baseball players are to find, I learned of an alternate solution. MLB SportsClix made MLB sports figures at one time. They are just about o scale size and can easily fit in with other figures. You can also find them reasonably priced on the bay. I simply removed the base that they are on and fit them in. You often have to purchase them in sets, so you may get other figures than just the batting ones. Of course you can paint the figures to match your own. Arnold, I have shared my Field of Dreams before, but here it is with some of the SportsClix figures added in....even Shoeless Joe Jackson coming in out of the cornfield. All of the outfielders, the third baseman, and the pitcher and catcher warming up along the third base foul line are SportsClix figures as is Shoeless Joe.

Rick

Ranger Rick posted:

Arnold and Cliff, as hard as o scale baseball players are to find, I learned of an alternate solution. MLB SportsClix made MLB sports figures at one time. They are just about o scale size and can easily fit in with other figures. You can also find them reasonably priced on the bay. I simply removed the base that they are on and fit them in. You often have to purchase them in sets, so you may get other figures than just the batting ones. Of course you can paint the figures to match your own. Arnold, I have shared my Field of Dreams before, but here it is with some of the SportsClix figures added in....even Shoeless Joe Jackson coming in out of the cornfield. All of the outfielders, the third baseman, and the pitcher and catcher warming up along the third base foul line are SportsClix figures as is Shoeless Joe.

Rick

I absolutely love your Field of Dreams baseball field, corn field and players. Thanks for sharing this with us, Rick.

Arnold

I liked the Machinery details that Kramer Made. 

Granted they were crude compared to this..

However Kramer Products are effective especially when enacting the 3 ft rule!

A number of years ago I bought a Kramer baseball set on eBay for a very reasonable price. The set was comprised of a home plate umpire, 8 fielders in grey/red uniforms and 1 batter in a white/blue uniform. To my chagrin, I waited too long to purchase the additional umpires and white/blue players on the bench. Kramer had gone out of business and despite years of searches on eBay, I could not find these figures anywhere.  The closest I could find were the plastic figures produced by Scenic Express. This week I purchased the Scenic Express players in the white/blue uniforms to serve as team at bat. Although not a perfect color match, it was “close enough for government work”. The below photos don’t show just how close they really are in person. I am happy with the results. I had purchased a number of SportsClix players but I found it difficult to have entire team all in the same uniforms.

cliff24g posted:

A number of years ago I bought a Kramer baseball set on eBay for a very reasonable price. The set was comprised of a home plate umpire, 8 fielders in grey/red uniforms and 1 batter in a white/blue uniform. To my chagrin, I waited too long to purchase the additional umpires and white/blue players on the bench. Kramer had gone out of business and despite years of searches on eBay, I could not find these figures anywhere.  The closest I could find were the plastic figures produced by Scenic Express. This week I purchased the Scenic Express players in the white/blue uniforms to serve as team at bat. Although not a perfect color match, it was “close enough for government work”. The below photos don’t show just how close they really are in person. I am happy with the results. I had purchased a number of SportsClix players but I found it difficult to have entire team all in the same uniforms.

Thanks, Cliff. I didn’t know about these supplementary figures. Now in my wishlist. 

Play ball!

Here's the whole Kramer gray team, white batter and 2 baserunners, and the Scenic Express team on the bench:

And 2 more Scenic Express players having a catch back on the farm:

If you love baseball and trains like I do, you have got to build your own ball park with players on your layout. It is really one of the easier things to do.

Here are 2 more baseball figures I found either at a LHS or train show. They were very inexpensive, and I have no idea who made them. They are bigger than O scale:

Arnold

I spoke with Mrs. Kramer some time ago and she mentioned that they were getting older and did not know how long that they could continue to provide products.

I guess that they are no longer in business.  I hope that they are well.  They are nice folks.

Norm

IMO, Kramer made the best O Scale baseball figures:

Made of metal and really good quality. I wish they were still in business making these terrific figures. Arnold

DaveJfr0 posted:

prrhorseshoecurve posted:

I liked the Machinery details that Kramer Made.

Granted they were crude compared to this..

However Kramer Products are effective especially when enacting the 3 ft rule!

Mark,

I hate to pull old posts like these from the grave, but...

I tried to email you about these on July 6.  Who made these, or what kits are all of these?  I'd like to do something similar or if for sale, just buy these, lol.

I saw your post Dave. Unfortunately, this was shown on the forum last decade or so. Here is a link:

http://www.railroad-line.com/d...3772&whichpage=1

prrhorseshoecurve posted:

DaveJfr0 posted:

prrhorseshoecurve posted:

I liked the Machinery details that Kramer Made.

Granted they were crude compared to this..

However Kramer Products are effective especially when enacting the 3 ft rule!

Mark,

I hate to pull old posts like these from the grave, but...

I tried to email you about these on July 6.  Who made these, or what kits are all of these?  I'd like to do something similar or if for sale, just buy these, lol.

I saw your post Dave. Unfortunately, this was shown on the forum last decade or so. Here is a link:

http://www.railroad-line.com/d...3772&whichpage=1

Thanks for posting that link: those machines are fantastic!    

Mark in Oregon