RAINTREE PRODUCTS RESIN BODY SHELLS

7acflyer May 16, 2011

  1. 7acflyer

    7acflyer TrainBoard Member

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    anybody know what happened to these guys? had a couple of their high hood gp30 shells awhile back. looking to make a couple of southern units.
     
  2. altohorn25

    altohorn25 TrainBoard Member

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    They have been out of business for quite a long time (maybe 10 years or so). I think someone bought their tooling and was producing some of their products for a while (maybe it was JnJ) but I have not seen any of their stuff for a long time. Shame; their 72' circus stock car wasn't bad and I need about 15 of them. Guess that is not going to happen.

    Nate
     
  3. 7acflyer

    7acflyer TrainBoard Member

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    Thanks for the heads up hoping to take the east way looks like its cut, glue and putty time.seem to remember a thread by someone on this forum making high hood GP30s will search around, thanks again.
     
  4. SteamDonkey74

    SteamDonkey74 TrainBoard Supporter

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    Here's a thread from about five years ago on this forum...
    Southern high hood GP30 finally done! - TrainBoard.com

    I'm fascinated by how Southern ordered high hood versions of locomotives after nearly everyone else had gone for low nose locos. I happen to like the high-hood look, probably one reason that I like GP9s and SD9s. I realize that visibility can only be better out of a low-nose locomotive, but from the outside I just like the high-hood look.
     
  5. jnevis

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  6. 7acflyer

    7acflyer TrainBoard Member

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    thanks jnevis looks like thats the way to go.
     
  7. Logtrain

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    The problem with Mark4design is last time I contacted him about some shells, he was having problems with his supplier. So I am not sure how available they would be. It would be nice if that problem was corrected though.
     

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