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anyone going to springfield this weekend and will there be on30 represented there?
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The guy from.. is it Peterboro? he's usually in the main building with a large stock of Bachmann items, HO and On30, prices are usually pretty competitive too - I bought my inside frame 4-4-0 from him at a show here in November for $150 (it was his last one, and he thought the price would go up on the next run of them from Bachmann). Beyond that it's dribs and drabs, although who knows with a 4th building added this year. About the only place that sells cheaper is The Favorite Spot on eBay if you get lucky in an auction.
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As usual, Peterboro was in the main building, plus in the 4th building was a vendor with craftsman style laser cut wood kits for Maine and EBT prototype car kits and structures, and a couple vendors in the second building with On30 items. Crusader in building three had some items also. I cleaned up on Grandt Line detail parts from old stock with prices less than half the current retail list price.
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Ah, lucky you!
Arthur
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I havent used but 4 of the windows that I have "stocked up on".....LOL
I better get going with the scratch building.....Heck, I cant even keep
up with Art.....
Geezer
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I saw some really great-looking On30 modules and took some photos: http://www.earlyrail.org/Springfield09
dave
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Thanks for the pictures Dave! IMG9952 - Do you remember if that is a kit or
if it was scratch? And who it belongs to?
Thanks in advance,
Geezer
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Woops, I answered on the wrong image (if you saw the earlier response.) I don't know if this was a kit, but it was on an On30 layout, near the front of the Better Living Center. Right behind this was a very nicely done Sellers Turntable :-)
dave
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Thanks Dave - I am looking for a coaling tower that dont cost $275.oo! LOL!
I guess I will have to research & scratch one up.....
The Geezer
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Heck, I'm so cheap I balked at $20 for the Bachmann Plasticville coal tower for a new kit. But I know they must have made 80 billion of them by now and sooner or later one will show up for $5. With some work on the top and maybe shorten the legs a bit it aught to be fine for On30. (I see Micro-Mark even has a laser-cut wood kit to change the top of it to a more realistic appearance, but I'm thinking I can do the same thing with styrene for half the cost).
I bought a set of the new Bachmann frames and looking at the design gave me an idea, and now one's about halfway into being a 25'6" caboose with side doors, end platforms, and a cupola over one end - sort of made to look like it might have once been a boxcar and later was converted.
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anyone else pick up anything from backwoods miniatures. the exchange rate was pretty good this time got a rail truck conversion for 50 dollars US which is 38 pounds on there web site. the owner said two weeks ago it was 2 Lbs per every dollar. so im happy.
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