Hi Jace; I stand corrected on IMWX, you are absolutely right that the I stood for "Innovative"; I have some of their HO cars and should have remembered correctly. I have still not seen "Industrial Rail" called "IMX", unless that is an "O" scale thing.
Still, the Industrial Rail caboose I assume people are asking about was an S scale Sante Fe offset cupola body on O-27 trucks. There is a picture from an IR ad in this thread on another group (second image from the bottom). I think "string Bob" Nicholson has a couple of photos in the list albums showing his conversions of this car as well. Pieter E. Roos --- On Thu, 5/5/11, JGG KahnSr <[email protected]> wrote: > No, to further confuse the nomenclature, what you are > talking about was an offshoot of Intermountain Models, and > the IMWX business was INNOVATIVE Model Works, and while I > cannot speak for what they did in HO, their O scale > offerings were different lettering schemes of the > Intermountain cars (I still have at least half a dozen on > the shelf) before I/M > sold their O scale dies to Atlas. Red Caboose was a > mostly-independent business owned by Bill McClung, although > connected to I/M apparently for developing dies and perhaps > actually manufacturing (injection-molding machines being > expensive and benefiting from greater utilization). > > If I recall correctly, the caboose in question was not the > ATSF (e.g., Lionel trainset kind) steel end cupola caboose > but a center cupola steel on the order of the "Northeastern" > (i.e., > Reading/LV/WM). > > In any event, I think we are agreed that the "I" is for > Industrial. > > Jace Kahn > > General Manager > Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co. > > > > > > > > > The company in question was called "Industrial Rail", > an Atlas maintains that name for their O-27 line. They > appear to have replaced the old ATSF style car in the line, > so maybe train shows or Ebay are the only way to get the car > anymore. > > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
