Eastern Car Works
Does anyone know what the situation is with Eastern Car Works, the manufacturer that has brought us all the great P-70 series passenger car kits over the years. Their website has been down for several...
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Good question. Their stuff is vanishing at train shows as well. You can get the covered hoppers but almost everything else is in short supply. The good news is that they do have a history of...
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Bill,The story is that the fellow that owns ECW is an over- the-road truck driver and ,yes, a lot of the stuff he does get out is done in "fits" and "spurts". You just have to keep scouring the hobby...
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Dave & others,The B60 started out as a BCW kit. The dies were sold to ECW, who added the kit to his line. When BCW/Intermountain wanted to produce the RTR B60s, the parts were purchased from ECW...
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Paul,Thank you for setting the sequence straight. No wonder information gets turned around, I should heed my own advice about keeping your score card up-to-date!I went downstairs and looked at boxes...
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and prior to this I think they were "E&B Valley", at least in part. The 65' millgon kits are amazingly similar. Despite the problems of drips and spurts, they remain a NECESSARY company for PRR...
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As I recall, Eastern Car Works really got its start by assuming production of some of the E&B Valley RR and all of the Alco Models plastic kits, sometime back in the 1980's. Over the years they've...
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Don; I'd sure vote for a good diner rebuild! I am bashing one out of a Spectrum but it's going to be a "closer" kind of thing. The window size is the big sticking point from the visual standpoint. I...
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Thought I had posted here (see that I had not) that ECW has again shipped certain kits. Walthers also has some near future release dates for some others. It seems BCW is out of everything. I have a...
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Diesel148 stated:"It would be a neat line for someone to expand upon...P70 GSRs and KRs would be great additions. Or car ends to supplement BCW stuff."Nickel Plate Car Company (not the brass importer...
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