Does any one know if anybody is producing the City Classics building again? I just read the owner Jim Sacco passed and can't find a website for the company anymore. Usually another company will buy out the dies and manufacture them again.
They have some kind of site under Facebook, and Walthers still lists some of their products. My understanding was that after Jim Sacco passed away, other employees tried to keep the business going. To my knowledge, they never had a dot com website.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
I met Jim one day at the Springfield/Amherst train show. He immediately knew me by my screen name, and I've always sought him out at shows. I was very sad to see he'd left us. Jim was one of the best of us.
His kits were among the best. I have them prominently displayed on my layout, along with a few in the background I like to leave there as "hidden gems" for viewers to find. I always joked about how Jim's four-walls-and-a-roof kits were the real essence of model railroading, giving us just enough of a start so that we could add details and make them our own.
I hope we'll meet again in the big train room in the sky, Jim.