Originally Posted by Steinzeit:
Originally Posted by Simon Winter:
I always figured if you can't find what you want for sale somewhere, it doesn't do you a whole h*ll of a lot of good just knowing it exists.
I would, respectfully, disagree. Over the years a number of items were announced / advertised that never reached the production stage, and it is helpful to know that those items don't exist so that the search of a potential buyer can be redirected to a 'second choice' or Plan B, especially if that alternate item is hard to find [ or in some cases, hard to find at a non-atmospheric price.....]. Opinion, based on experience.
Best rgds, SZ
Originally Posted by Simon Winter:
Originally Posted by Steinzeit:
Originally Posted by Simon Winter:
I always figured if you can't find what you want for sale somewhere, it doesn't do you a whole h*ll of a lot of good just knowing it exists.
I would, respectfully, disagree.
Best rgds, SZ
Disagree all you like. If you can't find an item for sale, you can't buy it, and plan "B" doesn't change that.
Simon
Originally Posted by B Smith:
But don't you think it is useful to know that a certain item does NOT exist, and that
it is therefore a waste of time even to look for it? If I know in advance (from some sort
of credible inventory of models that have been produced in the past) that no one has
ever produced or imported a model of a particular engine or car, then I'm not going to
go out searching for it. In that case, I can devote my energy to looking for a second choice (Plan B) item that I know has been made and may, therefore, actually be available somewhere.
Let's suppose that years ago people knew for sure that there was no Holy Grail, then they
would't have wasted so much time and effort looking for it!
Certainly a lot of the fun of the train hobby is searching for that elusive car that is rare and very seldom seen for sale... kind of like when the real ones lose a car, lol!
What's probably more important here is the fact that one of the premier importers was planning on doing an X25 box car, a car never done in O scale, and had done a significant amount of research for the car. I don't know where all of that research went but it was rumored to have went "somewhere" and whomever has it supposedly wants a significant amount of money for it.
PRR boxcars seem oblivious to the "just another boxcar" crowd but for those who model for accuracy the mere fact that the PRR (and NYC) had more boxcars than others railroads had cars in their entire fleet should make at least a fair number of folks interested in an accurate model of one of these common cars.
Of course, at $300+ a pop YMMV.