Trainfest Report

[ljudice]

Any word at trainfest about what is going to happen to the Huberts tooling?

[Bob Bufkin]

Atlas posted their video on Trainfest.  Here it is for those of you who don't frequent the Atlas Forum:

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Covers 0, HO and N.

[sundowner]

Any word at trainfest about what is going to happen to the Huberts tooling?

That tooling is jinx, I hope whoever get it, get a priest to perform an exorcism on it because who ever has it, goes out of business.
Its to bad because they have some nice shinny cars.

[ljudice]

If I suddenly owned it (and ignoring whatever it is they do in HO), I would do batches of well researched paintschemes on those 65' gons, maybe even some grafitti covered cars as well, with loads and weathering - to increase the apparent value of the rather dated tooling.

I would also switch to Atlas trucks/accumates, as they make a huge, huge difference in the appearance of their gons and boxcars.

A lot of people don't realize that they had at least 3 50' boxcar bodyshells and at least 2 60' boxcar bodyshells. They did a lot of foobie paintschemes and a lot of stuff looked like it was phototypeset using Microsoft Paint, but there is a lot of potential for some good stuff there.

[James Costello]

And who else would touch the TBOX/FBOX cars while the tooling is still floating around?

[ljudice]

Right!  And it's four 50' shells - the exterior post, the 2 plug door, and (2) FBOX cars.

[asarge]

I asked a couple of manufacturers about the old Huberts tooling and nobody knows where it went.....or isn't saying.

[Mr. G]

Is it just me, or does that DD40 look wretched?  I have yet to see a picture that doesn't make it look laughably bad. 

[Allentown Hump]

I thought I saw a guy from Deluxe talking to Mr. Hubert at the show...