Milled Caboose Roofing Basswood

colorado hirailer posted:

Not enough roofing material...

What exact dimensions do you need?

Is Northeastern Scale Lumber still in business? I thought l had notice they were gone some time ago, but just found their  site under another subject, with all kinds of wood, including my caboose roofs!!  Site appeared to be PDF...Have heard nothing else of them lately.

Went to Walthers site...  Advanced Search....  Northeastern Scale Lumber (521)....  O scale.... Roof...

6 hits, including "Caboose Roof"

4 in styles in stock.

Caboose Roof... "Special Order"....which means 'Not currently in stock, but buyer will add to next order'.

I, too, thought I'd seen notices that NESL was closing shop a few years ago.  Apparently not so.....  In fact searching on "Stripwood" at the same site yields 10 pages of NESL material....most of which in stock!

Kappler is another source of stripwood, but they don't seem to provide a variety of milled shapes...as per NESL.

FWIW....

I continued searching and found Northeast"s current site, with different search words. It must have been that they had said they were no longer producing O milled shapes. Grrrr!  They have them all in HO.  Midwest does not....nobody else?  Guess it will be like the old Walther's pass. car kits....gotta shape roofs by hand.  Like archbar trucks, l shoulda stocked up (oh yeah, l tried on the trucks, and the last ones all crumbled from zincpest!!) Thanks for your response.

colorado hirailer posted:

I continued searching and found Northeast"s current site, with different search words. It must have been that they had said they were no longer producing O milled shapes. Grrrr!  They have them all in HO.

Keep looking on Northeastern's site - O scale milled roof is listed:

https://www.northeasternscalel...-parts.html?page=all

down towards the bottom of the page.  $16.55 for a section of freight car roofing.  Northeastern brought back all the milled shapes in O scale except the streamline pass roof - go figure....

Midwest does not....nobody else?  Guess it will be like the old Walther's pass. car kits....gotta shape roofs by hand.

 

Freight car roof is easier to shape using a table or radial arm saw - actually done on an old RMC article.

 

Like archbar trucks, l shoulda stocked up (oh yeah, l tried on the trucks, and the last ones all crumbled from zincpest!!) Thanks for your response.

Archbar trucks - I almost exclusively use Athearn ones with IM wheelsets.  Not all that hard to find - I was offered several sets at the last Strasburg meet, but I have enough to last me for several years of building cars.  Yoder trucks are very nice, but a bit out of my budget vs. the number of cars I build every year vs. sales of the same.

Wow!!  I was in three shops today looking for these in old stock, and one dealer whipped out a Walther's catalog, which only showed the HO ones!!  His catalog must be out of date, or Walther's does not bother to list.  This shop did stock some current Northeastern stripwood, which verified that l was way out of date.  And this is the weekend, so....will have to wait, but will pursue.  Sure glad l asked. Thanks!

colorado hirailer posted:

Wow!!  I was in three shops today looking for these in old stock, 

You might try calling P&D Hobby Shop, Fraser, MI.

KD

colorado hirailer posted:

Wow!!  I was in three shops today looking for these in old stock, and one dealer whipped out a Walther's catalog, which only showed the HO ones!!  His catalog must be out of date, or Walther's does not bother to list.  This shop did stock some current Northeastern stripwood, which verified that l was way out of date.  And this is the weekend, so....will have to wait, but will pursue.  Sure glad l asked. Thanks!

It pays to go directly to the source when possible.  As much as one may wish to support the LHS, reliance upon them to be up to date or have current information is just another unknown. Walthers is hardly a reliable source of information. Northeastern brought the roof sections back into product at least a decade ago.  

Kappler Lumber    There are scribe sheets.

Midwest    another source.