Comaparison to PBL models
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Mixed Freight
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InterMountain Railway Company is one company that used to produce O-scale box car kits (and probably other car types too) in 2-rail O-scale, complete with full under-body details. I say "used to", as I don't think they produce them anymore. You can still find these kits in the second-hand market.
I bought an InterMountain O-scale box car kit 3 or 4 years ago and built it, although modifying it for 3-rail O-gauge. Late last year I scored a couple more box car kits for a steal at a local train show. They are definitely very nice, detailed kits, although I'm not too crazy about the extremely fine plastic moldings for grab irons, under-body piping and brake lines, etc. They don't hold up well to normal handling, which is pretty much a necessity and requirement for 3-rail. I either replaced some of these pieces with my own bent metal wire pieces (grab irons, etc.), or left them off altogether (under-body piping and lines, etc.).
I would imagine that anything and everything produced for On3 would be very well detailed top to bottom, as this is in the 2-rail realm and not in the 3-rail side of things. Since I've never been around it or paid much if any attention to it, I don't know who might make kits for this scale.
I bought an InterMountain O-scale box car kit 3 or 4 years ago and built it, although modifying it for 3-rail O-gauge. Late last year I scored a couple more box car kits for a steal at a local train show. They are definitely very nice, detailed kits, although I'm not too crazy about the extremely fine plastic moldings for grab irons, under-body piping and brake lines, etc. They don't hold up well to normal handling, which is pretty much a necessity and requirement for 3-rail. I either replaced some of these pieces with my own bent metal wire pieces (grab irons, etc.), or left them off altogether (under-body piping and lines, etc.).
I would imagine that anything and everything produced for On3 would be very well detailed top to bottom, as this is in the 2-rail realm and not in the 3-rail side of things. Since I've never been around it or paid much if any attention to it, I don't know who might make kits for this scale.
Iron Horseman
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There was once a company called Iron Horse Models that did "museum quality" rolling stock in O-scale. Don't know what happened to them.
