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I recently won an eBay auction for a pair of Virginian 3-bay open hoppers (N-scale), which I hardly believed to be real at the time. I kept thinking that maybe they were labeled wrong and were HO scale for real, but I took the chance on them because I have been longing for a 70-ton 3-bay hopper for a long time. I thought there was nothing like this available in N-scale, and that I would have to kitbash a quad hopper to produce one for my N&W fleet. Now that my VGN hoppers have arrived, I know that indeed they are real, and what's more, MDC has offered N&W hoppers (with peaked ends even!) for over a year. I have been a subscriber to MR for almost twenty years, and I knew nothing of this. I've gone to train shows and not seen them, so perhaps they've been sold out or otherwise under-produced (thus not available on eBay). But, after recently acquiring a couple of the new Atlas C-628's, I realized that I have yet to see a product review of these as well. Maybe the space in the magazine is limited, but really, part of the reason I read the magazine is for these reviews. Because everything is done limited-run these days, I need to get the heads-up notice so that I can plan to purchase. Does anybody else get the same sense that I do, i.e. that the product coverage is somewhat lax? I think the products that do get reviewed are well-presented, but I'd rather have more products covered in brief if the alternative is neglect.
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