Here's the product announcement from Railflyer, regarding trucks for the walkway modules. I spoke with Christopher last night and it sounds like he's got his hands full getting everyone's orders packaged and shipped, so I'll post this here in his stead. If anyone's been waiting to place an order, now would be the time to do it while everything is in stock. We'll see trucks sooner if the walkway modules sell. And once those trucks are out those of us who build them will have the only true to scale, operating, 1:87.1 EMD Dash 2 models.
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Hello,
New Product Announcement
As a part of our Locomotive Building System we are pleased to announce the
development of new accurately scale locomotive trucks for both “B” axle and
“C” axle EMD/GMDD locomotives. We plan on releasing trucks for both our
General Purpose and Special Duty based locomotive frame kits.
Some key features will be:
Multi-media kit with injection molded resin, styrene and photo-etched metal
components
Scale proportions not found in current tooling
Gearing in 14:1
Side-frame detail with options for manufacturing logos used by both EMD and
GMDD
Side-frame with a “Cast” 3D appearance
Thin profile gear box which is compatible with our drive components or existing products
Axle suspension to enable P87 operations
Options for wheel treads
Various phases and configurations will be available
Anticipated Release Date:
TBD
MSRP:
$46.49
The above mentioned products are our focus for 2008. Active development will commence shortly. The release date is floating at present as it is entirely
dependent on sales of our current product line. We have a substantial amount
of inventory on hand and all current back orders are presently being filled.
Keep an eye out for new instruction manuals and sample photos of the new
products over the next month or so.
Our locomotive kits will be broken into the following modules:
Frame / Fuel Tank
Trucks
Clean Air Room / Drive / Long Hood Cradle
Long Hood Doors / Engine Room and Radiator Components
Cab Area
Our GMDD Wide Cab might be ready by mid April depending on our latest test
samples. The cab is being extensively refined to the highest standards.
Another possible companion to our announced projects are a "Spartan Cab" and "Handrail Stanchions" to accompany our Locomotive Building Systems. However this is subject to how things pan out with our current products.
Thank you for the support and patience. You will be very happy with the end
result.
Christopher Howard
Railflyer Model Prototypes Inc.
www.railflyermodelprototypes.com