Re: (erielack) Erie 3 bay covered hoppers?

[Estabrook_@_aol.com]

In a message dated 5/22/01 8:19:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
pontiac_@_dreamscape.com writes:
 
>  Didn't the tooling for those Con Cor cars originate as AHM cars?  I've 
> seen
>  them at shows and passed them up because it seems as though thats where 
this
>  and 2 or 3 other freight cars they sold as kits, came from.

These were made for AHM by ROCO in Austria up till the late 70's, then E&B 
Valley got the dies and made them for awhile with minor changes and Athearn 
trucks (also sold under the name Robins Rails), then finally ConCor got the 
dies, put coupler pockets and their own trucks on them, plus lots more roads 
and numbers.  Until ConCor they were still marked made in Austria!  The 
history is somewhat similar for the 40 PS-1 Box Cars and PD reefers, except 
Walthers intervened with their version.

Reed

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