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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by ericsp</i> <br />[The Blue Box line is still in production. I just ordered, and received, a bunch of 57' mechanical reefers. Go to Athearn's website and have a look at the Blue Box production list. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />I know it is still in production. However remember that Wyoming is the black hole of the Model Railroad universe. It will take a couple years for the blue box kits to trickle back in here. If the hobby shops even decide to order them. The biggest hobbyshop in the state is big on lionel. Lionel stuff and their accociated accesssories, take up half the store. HO stuff 1/4 and N and Supplies the other 1/4. And with this guy the more like lionel you can make things the better. So I doubt Blue box will show up at his store ever again. (And getting this guy to order you something is a joke.) There is a fairly well rounded shop in Cheyanne. But I rarely have occasion to go that direction. There is one store in Gillete, But I have never been there but I am told its kind of run down and shabby. There is a store in Rock Springs (only 90 miles from me) But dealing with that guy almost seems to depend on phases of the moon. He will have something marked on the shelf $34.95 take it to the counter. Go, Oh. I see the walthers catalog has it listed now for $54.99 and charge you $54.99. The only hobby shop that is in my semi consistant field of visitation is this tiny little shop in Douglas. Its in the back end of a place that sells wood pellet stoves and does UPS shipping. Models in genneral Trains planes cars ect. take up two counters and a wall in this place and has the understandably small selection. But this place is more than happy to order in anything you can want. And send it to you UPS. I have spent several hundred dollars at this tiny little store just because they almost seem to want to bend over backwards to get what you want. Alas, the store I end up going to most often is that of Who's Hobby House in Rapid City South Dakota. I am there several times a year for other business and this is where I spend most of my LHS dollars. The rest of the year I am stuck to ebay and mail order. But Horizon has cut athearn frome these sources pretty good. so I doubt I will see any new BB kits from them any time soon. Meanwhile Accurail is readily available, inexpensive and built into failry well detailed models. And they have alot of the same body types Athearn makes as well. <br /> <br />James
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