What happen to Intermodel Company tried the search on TRW and Google

[Spades]

Seeing bbussey  https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=42308.msg533175#msg533175.  What happen to Intermode?  I know Deluxe purchased some of the tooling. Interested in the complete history if it exists.

[fcnrwy23]

Company doesn't exist, hasn't for a few decades.   I looked for them too, since this past week, I had a Intermodal set to sell.   They were called, "Interail", first.
I found a reply to a thread on the old Atlas Forum.   I cant seem to find it now.
But, the guy replied that, he sold the company to someone, who sold it to Deluxe.

Jerry G.

[jagged ben]

I have a whole bunch of Interail kits, they were way before their time.

I never heard them called 'Intermodel'.  Got a pic?

[peteski]

I have a whole bunch of Interail kits, they were way before their time.

I never heard them called 'Intermodel'.  Got a pic?

Are these the container well cars which came in long skinny boxes with a clear plastic cover/sleeve?

[Jim Costello]

Yes that was them in a yellow carton marked 'Interail'. I did meet the owner at the time,cannot remember his name though. He also had a card of printed containers that you could fold up
and sit on the layout as a scenery/structure item.  There was also a flat pack of injected plastic containers that made into several different lengths and also the  container skeleton trailer
from memory in a two pack flat pack as well. The latter has been part of the Deluxe range.

NSE George would I believe have further details.

Jim
Modelling the NH down under

[peteski]

Yes that was them in a yellow carton marked 'Interail'. I did meet the owner at the time,cannot remember his name though. He also had a card of printed containers that you could fold up
and sit on the layout as a scenery/structure item.  There was also a flat pack of injected plastic containers that made into several different lengths and also the  container skeleton trailer
from memory in a two pack flat pack as well. The latter has been part of the Deluxe range.

NSE George would I believe have further details.

Well then,  calling @NSEGeorge  !
Can you shed some light on the subject?

[NSEGeorge]

before i sold deLuxe to Dave Ferrari, we did a deal with Paul from Interrail/Intermodel to re-release the Thrall LoPac 2000 that he did the tooling for with a bunch of updates. We accepted from Paul all of the parts that he had in his house, and tried to clean them up and re=part them so they could be delivered as a ready to run product. Paul is an honorable fellow, and was a pioneer in N scale with this product set. His product came in a plastic sheet folded box with a light cardboard innerliner in white, black and orange and white cut foam insert to hold the finished car. it had Grandt Line details exclusive to the car in two versions- the dry box version and the refrigerated version with the gen set on the end car. Grandt Line also tooled the kit containers and the 40' chassis. All of the GL tooling was cut in brass, and the tools simply came to the end of their usable life. We did extend the life of some of them and redid the etched metal for others, and thought that the cars, at the end of the day, were pretty good. We re-packed it in our TwinStack yellow tray, and for the person modeling early intermodal, it was a must-have model. Thr fact that most of the lopacs and Twinstacks built are still available for service today (although on storage tracks) speaks to how cool this prototype period was.

The die cast body parts came from a metal molder in Northern California who was a real challenge to deal with, and we were not able to make a cost effective deal to continue producing the cars at the time we wanted to. the molder came back to us later and made a better deal, but my life got nuts and we sold the company. The molding arrangement, and the relationship with Paul, was passed on to Dave.

For a myriad of reasons, including the worst luck i have ever seen, Dave has not been able to grow the company the way he had planned, and the tooling lies fallow at this time. It Is a shame, as it is still a viable model.

best-

NSE George

[Spades]

I have a whole bunch of Interail kits, they were way before their time.

I never heard them called 'Intermodel'.  Got a pic?

An old copy of the ntrak newsletter from some railwire thread.  Can't find it now, checked history but no love It referenced Intermodel n scale APL containership.  There was only one ever made. I knew they were Interrail products, but never heard of Intermodel.

[ryan_wilkerson]

Thanks for the detailed response George. Hopefully Dave receives an equal amount of good fortune in the future.
-Ryan

before i sold deLuxe to Dave Ferrari, we did a deal with Paul from Interrail/Intermodel to re-release the Thrall LoPac 2000 that he did the tooling for with a bunch of updates. We accepted from Paul all of the parts that he had in his house, and tried to clean them up and re=part them so they could be delivered as a ready to run product. Paul is an honorable fellow, and was a pioneer in N scale with this product set. His product came in a plastic sheet folded box with a light cardboard innerliner in white, black and orange and white cut foam insert to hold the finished car. it had Grandt Line details exclusive to the car in two versions- the dry box version and the refrigerated version with the gen set on the end car. Grandt Line also tooled the kit containers and the 40' chassis. All of the GL tooling was cut in brass, and the tools simply came to the end of their usable life. We did extend the life of some of them and redid the etched metal for others, and thought that the cars, at the end of the day, were pretty good. We re-packed it in our TwinStack yellow tray, and for the person modeling early intermodal, it was a must-have model. Thr fact that most of the lopacs and Twinstacks built are still available for service today (although on storage tracks) speaks to how cool this prototype period was.

The die cast body parts came from a metal molder in Northern California who was a real challenge to deal with, and we were not able to make a cost effective deal to continue producing the cars at the time we wanted to. the molder came back to us later and made a better deal, but my life got nuts and we sold the company. The molding arrangement, and the relationship with Paul, was passed on to Dave.

For a myriad of reasons, including the worst luck i have ever seen, Dave has not been able to grow the company the way he had planned, and the tooling lies fallow at this time. It Is a shame, as it is still a viable model.

best-

NSE George