Freight Cars Beyond The Roads We Connect With.

Collecting freight cars, whether painted at home or purchased from the many builders out in the hobby world, can be quite addictive. Trying to choose between what one likes and what one needs can also be quite difficult at times; there are many wonderful choices these days and the variety keeps growing.

Most of the time choices seem few and far between. We order and then wait until the cars arrive from the factory. That fact alone can cause issues as the money set aside can get used by an emergency; life goes ever on after all. Then as luck would have it, several builders all have the cars wished for arrive within days of each other. Being on a fixed income can really limit the funds available when this happens. Choices have to be made. 

Case in point are some more excellent 40' cars from Rapido, the GN cars that just dropped are gorgeous, models remembered from being trackside back in the day.

Of course these are like potato chips, can't get by with just one and well, they do look great and work well into your operations, so you order two to help cost average the shipping charges.

And then Intermountain, who is running late forever it seems, ships something ordered two years ago, well, what is a mother to do?

So out goes the cash and in comes the cars. The costs have gone up, but so has the quality and detail of the builds. Took some soul searching to justify the higher costs, but then life is short and the time to duplicate the modern build quality is just not on ones side any more.

Thanks for reading along, drop a message if the mood strikes or just say hello.

Best wishes,

John Huey