There is a blurb on the Atlas forum that Boley no longer is going to supply the HO vehicle market. As I model the end of steam era mainly I will not be affected. I have only seen modern semi-triuck vehicles with the Boley label.Have never seen these in Wal Mart at all.
Is Boley a big player in the HO vehicle models?
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They have been around for at least 10 years. Started out very cheap - price went up some, but not that much - pretty good quality, although not the same as some of the european makers.
That's unfortunate as they made "Modern" Royal Canadian Mounted Police equipment and I was hoping they'd do some older pre 60' stuff. Personally I think HO Vehicles are an emerging HO Market item with great future potential. Besides... Boley is a lot cheaper on gas then the "big 3"
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I do not see anything about that on Boley's websites.
http://www.dept187.com/
http://www.boleycorp.com/about.php
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Nor do I. I think somebody is spreading rumors of something they know nothing about or haven't taken the time to confirm.
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jeffrey-wimberly Nor do I. I think somebody is spreading rumors of something they know nothing about or haven't taken the time to confirm.
Jeff, that would NEVER happen here!!!
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I would at least check out the Atlas site for more information before making off the cuff comment.....
Yeah you guys ought to check this out before you go reporting unsubstantiated rumors even though Boley was at I Hobby practically giving the stuff away to get rid of it.
If your wondering where I heard that rumor from you can talk to two of our LHS's that were there buying the stuff from him.
By the way Boley bailing out of HO is really old news it was reported several months ago.in the hobby press.
That's news to me. My LHS knows nothing about it and there's nothing on their site about it.
Note: the news was concerning their HO scale line.
I had wondered if that may have been something to do with GM. Boley seems to have/ had a lot of GM models and of course the news that any models licenced by GM had to be a certain size so that no childred chocked .
I checked Atlas website and still no mention neither was there a mention on any other site I checked up. I even asked 2 LHS's who just received stuff from them... They gave me the fisheye...
A boley site had nothing up either.
Who is your source?
...then again, could I have missed the spec. forum?
The vehicle made by Boley are too new for my time period also. Boley vehicles appear to be slightly oversize when placed with correctly scaled ones.
I haven't been able to find out anything about Boley going out of business
Boley has / had some interesting stuff at reasonable prices and it would be a pity to see them leave the model railroad market. Let's wait for something official on this before we select a casket and order the flowers.
Dave Nelson
Im not buying it. And I also hope its not true, the 1/87 boley stuff seems to be the best quality for the price. I own some boley equipment, and I like it a lot.