Hello--
That Tangent Scale Models box car is a great model, of a prototype that was common enough to go everywhere. Yet--it is way different from Kadee's excellent offerings. Yes, there are people who want it, if not me personally.
Do some want model railroading to stay the same? For only Kadee to produce a high end freight car? For Kadee to simply keep popping out new roadnames or reruns on the cars they already have? And never get to the oddball PS-1's or the rebuilds that were common and went everywhere?
If you don't want to buy it, nobody is holding a gun to your head to make you buy it.
Maybe we all just need to go back to buying the warmed over Athearn blue box offerings? After all, that's all we really need, right?
John
Good evening
I see Tangent seems to be liked by quite a few of you. I'm not familiar being in N scale. Sounds like they make some pretty decent rolling stock and you guys are happy with them.
My Key brass locomotive got delivered this evening.
It has a few very minor flaws which can be expected for how old it is. Overall you can tell it has been well taken care of and has a very nice appearance.
It runs surprisingly well, of course not as good as modern-day models. It jumps out of the hole a bit but not too bad. I haven't hooked any cars up yet, sometimes that helps.
I can't believe how heavy it is. It's half the size of one of my other steamers and it is much heavier. I'm thinking it will pull a lot of cars. Overall I'm happy with my purchase as I've never had a brass locomotive before.
TF