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I'd like to see Walthers reissuse some of the former Train Miniatures product line. They have but a couple of them still in their 2004 catalog, but used to offer much more. I remember when TM first came out in the '60s, they were to that decade, what Athearn was ten years prior. The TM freight cars were some of the first mass produced injection molded plastic rolling stock that paid a fair amount of attention to details, and little things like the thicness of hand rails and grabs, roofwalks, door runners, etc. They weren't perfect, but were light years ahead of anything else at the price, esp Athearn 'blue box' kits of similar prototypes. If Walthers priced these kits today at a price point near MDC and Athearn, I think they'd have a winner. Next to more finally detailed and probably more accurate Proto 2000 stuff, they still hold up well.
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