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Burlington Northern #24

  Go to trainboard and look over the N scale section, a bunch of those guys make their own stuff and build kits. If I can land an SP&S 24' caboose craftsman kit on Ebay, I'm going to build that, We as modelers can either mope about the situation or make something of it. 

 Now that I'm part of an omni rail group I can focus more time on the part of the hobby I want to give a shot like building kits, making proper SP&S passenger car, and scratchbuilding. Give it time, N scale is about to get a big boost in kits via 3D printed models. they're working on a plastic MILW road Little Joe, Baldwin DT6-6-2000, they've made UP's excursion tenders, etc. 

THe way it seems N scale's future will probably have scoresof 3D printed locomotive and car kits.

 

I've been a member of trainboard for 10 years and I believe that it's the best N scale board out there.  I am certainly not moping, I have shown a lot of projects on different boards over the years and will continue to do so.  I love to scratchbuild and kitbash things that no one else does.

If I remember correctly, there was an N Scale magazine article in the early 90's that had an article about bashing one of the SP&S 24' cabooses using the Micro-Trains wood sided caboose.

I hope 3D printing is not the future of this hobby unless the castings get WAY better first.  While I have seen some that look decent, to me most look unusable.