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Greenway Products
Posted by dadret on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 6:44 AM
Has anyone had any experience with HO rolling stock from Greenway Products?  They have some neat old beer and billboard cars I'd like to have but I don't know anything about the company.  Their prices aren't too bad. Apparently they only sell direct and not through any major distributors.
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Posted by MisterBeasley on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 6:54 AM

The beer cars are Athearn blue-box ice-bunker reefers, repainted.  As I recall, they still need to be assembled when you get them.  This is no big deal for one of these kits.  Athearn blue-box kits are at the low end of the detail scale.  The paint jobs are very good quality, though, and offer a nice path to some very unique cars.

This is their "Mule Beer" car in front of my brewery:

I picked my cars up at the Springfield show a couple of years back.  As I recall, they also make some nice interior detail stuff, like machine shop parts.  If you're thinking of doing a machine shop with lights and interior details, this is a very good way to go.

For those of you having a slow day at work, here's the Greenway main page:

http://www.greenwayproducts.com/index.shtml

And if you're busy at work and just want to go straight to the beer cars:

http://www.greenwayproducts.com/a_beercars.shtml

(I have no financial interest in Greenway, by the way.  Sure do like beer reefers, though.)

 

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Posted by modelmaker51 on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 7:05 AM
I believe they still sell Athearn, MDC, cars that they (Greenway) decorate. I don't know if they're kits or RTR. They've been around for about 20 years now. In the beginning the quality of the paint jobs was pretty variable from poor to good , but they improved considerably over the years as they invested in better equipment, (and better painters), from what I've seen in recent years they're on par with the manufacturer jobs.

Jay 

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Other builds: https://imageshack.com/my/albums 

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Posted by cacole on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 7:36 AM
I haven't bought any Greenway Products rolling stock for several years, but it used to be Athearn or Accurail kits that they custom decorated. 
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Posted by loathar on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:19 AM
I talked to them at a show a couple years ago. Seemed like a mom & pop operation. REAL nice people. All their stuff looked like good - great quality. Prices where really good too. I haven't purchased anything from them yet, but I wouldn't hesitate to do so.
They sell a lot of nice little detail parts too.
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Posted by cwclark on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:57 AM
  They are a very good company to deal with. I purchased the ho scale machine shop tools from them and they got them out to me in no time. One of the items they didn't have and they made a special phone call to me to let me know that one of the items was out of stock. Now that's service!....chuck

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Posted by dadret on Friday, May 30, 2008 6:19 AM
Thanks for the info.  I ordered some cars yesterday.
alp
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Posted by alp on Saturday, August 8, 2015 5:46 PM

Our earlier cars are all blue box athearn, some have plastic wheels, some metal. some have horn hook couplers, some have kadee type couplers. It all depends on when Athearn made them and when they were printed. Our later cars are a china import, printed by us in the US, with metal wheelsets and knuckle couplers, the later cars are preassembled. You can view most of them on our website, Greenwayproducts.com. Our email is greenwayproducts@comcast.net. Our phone is 724-238-6268 we do not answer much of the time, but there is a message machine and we are pretty good at returning calls if the message is clear enough to understand. We are always happy to answer questions. It is widely known, however, that our shipping operations are generally closed from late November until March or April. This is a manadtory schedule placed on us in recent years because of medical requirements. During that period we can be reached, but only occasionally, at 602-314-1429. I hope this helps answer your qauestions.

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Posted by KemacPrr on Sunday, August 9, 2015 11:14 AM

Really miss you guys at the Timonium and Springfield shows . ----  Ken McCorry

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Posted by Howard Zane on Sunday, August 9, 2015 4:40 PM

I also miss Greenway, Al, Connie, and wonderful staff. As we all must............. someday get old, but we have this hobby that helps and prolongs the aging proceess.

For the record, I co-managed the Timonium Great Scale Model Train Show for over 30 years. Greenway had attended most of these shows, I can easily put them in the top three of our very best vendors.....possibly the best!

Feel assured that if you do business with these fine folks, you will be quite pleased.

Howard Zane, former co-owner of the Timonium show in Maryland.

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Posted by E-L man tom on Monday, August 10, 2015 9:55 AM

Years ago I bought an Erie Lackawanna bay window caboose from them. An athearn product, repainted with the gray and maroon paint scheme. Nice paint job and their service was very good.

Tom Modeling the free-lanced Toledo Erie Central switching layout.
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Posted by Maurice on Tuesday, August 11, 2015 9:57 AM
Nice people, great service, interesting paint schemes. Just as long as you understand the beer car paint schemes are pretty much fantasy.

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