O-Line Trains

A PS - this company may fill the void left by RMT's pending retirement!

Could be something to get excited about!

Some of the stuff I have seen looks more like RMT tooling. Maybe this company can give Williams by Bachmann an incentive to lower their prices. I am in favor of lower prices for rolling stock and better selection as well.

How about better caboose selection? Something other then the N5c that WBB loves to sell!!

Lee Fritz

Is this rolling stock by O Line Reproductions scale size or more the size of Rail King or Menards boxcars?

Did PRR have silver LCL boxcars?

Guys, from all current information, the O-Line Reproductions are just repackaged RMT items, distributed by Heartland Hobby Wholesale, which has been talked about here and other forums already. If you look at the Heartland home page, where product lines carried are listed, there is no mention of O-Line Reproductions. But who knows, any thing is possible.

From all accounts, this is not new production, but previous overstock. They are identical to the similar RMT items. If you look closely at that silver PRR merchandise car, it says "RMT 1-11" on the bottom left side of the box car door.

If this was a NEW company, and these were NEW items, why would they say RMT on them? And certain cars, like the A&P Reefer were gone almost immediately... meaning, there were not very many available, indicating these are not new production. The only thing that strikes me odd, is that someone went to some trouble to print new boxes for these products. Usually on a blowout, they try to keep costs down, and they'd put stickers over prior packaging... maybe some legal issue.

These are also made from the traditional styled-sized K-Line items, save for the Pennsy style porthole caboose. And I'd think it would be safe to say the tooling for these items is still in the possession of Kader (Sanda Kan). When Kader took over Sanda Kan and dropped some 60 train companies from their production, Aristo Craft was one of the few NOT dropped - and at that time RMT was affiliated with Aristo Craft. When RMT said the tooling has been "re-positioned" that sounds to me like still under the ownership of Kader.

What is curious, is now on the RMT website, these same items are listed there with order reference numbers like "olr-127" as all the other dealers who have had these items.

I ordered three items from Walter at RMT from his retirement sale and two of them were in O-Line packaging, the third a Beep was in an RMT box.

Scotie

Williams by Bachmann, RMT, K-Line now O-Line is all produced by Kader.  They own all the molds, design specs etc.  Bachmann is owned by Kader.

There is no new manufacturers.

I bought the O-Line PRR N5c cabin because it had a different paint scheme than my other cabins.  Here are some pictures of it compared to the K-Line version (on left with black roof).

Looks like the same mold.  The only difference is on the bottom where O-Line added a TMCC/Command switch.  Even the window inserts are the same.

O-Line did add some figures that my K-Line did not have.

Does anyone have any idea if the RMT O scale Tubular Track will be sold by anyone else after he closes his doors???

FRED