SOME of his caboose offerings do not look half bad. Some of them look pretty bad. Some of them look like they could be salvaged with a little work. He has a few other pieces that are alleged to be 'Jordan spreaders' that look just as awful as the one in the link. I wonder where he gets his decals.
For a minute I thought that maybe he had started with a Japanese version of a snow dozer severely cut down. However looking at the underframe no way. I have seen some real junk put up for sale there that I wouldn't give to Deekus the Cat as a play toy much less even have contaminating my box of cars. I have created some total abortions in my time that all went into the trash can or had the parts salvaged and the rest tossed in the trash, but none that have looked as bad as this whatever. Whoever buys this needs a cane to navigate because their vision is that poor. Beside being tilted up in the air the plow front is so pitted with holes as to look like some cheap drywall compound was used to cast it and was never sanded. And what happened to the cab windows? Ahh I know this is the famous SP Blind Jordan. Do you somehow get the feeling that I wouldn't touch this with your money and your hands? Then you are right.
I've posted this guy in the past. Apparently someone made a cast Jordan spreader in the past and he is recasting off of a bad casting to make more...very badly. That's why there are no windows, the casting is solid. Still, one would think that he would spend the 5 seconds required to make the couplers look right and take a decent picture. How about this wedge snow plow? I don't think SF had anything even remotely like it, let alone in blue and gold paint: http://www.ebay.com/itm/SANTA-FE-N-...521532?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item20d214a3fc
Another classic by the same seller...he got most of the paint inside the windows: http://www.ebay.com/itm/N-Scale-Cus...428226?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item20c1443d02 This transfer caboose has end railings that only come up to the rest of the cabooses middle railing. Nice roofwalk and ladder too: http://www.ebay.com/itm/KCS-678-TRA...525485?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item20cdca116d a http://www.ebay.com/itm/PEORIA-PEKI...326615?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item1e7505b2d7
Here's a coupler issue on a Jordan spreader: http://www.ebay.com/itm/N-Scale-Cus...245154?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item1e706d8762 and here's the Santa Fe wedge plow after the merger: http://www.ebay.com/itm/BNSF-N-Scal...521531?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item20d214a3fb
I've made castings from molds and I am far from having some of the talent that I have seen here on TB. But none of my worst castings have come out like that. They look like something that sat on a siding rusting away and full of pinholes until someone came along and threw a bucket of paint or two at them.
I have one too , it can make a good looking model . Mine is made in Canada , assuming this is the one you are talking about. I really want the couplers... Randy
I was trying to figure out who may have made the original it was taken from...could it have been this one (nicer and cheaper, but not with the professional painting the other guy provides)? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Train-colle...208039?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item1c364ea527
That is the original kit, when done up it can look really nice (this isn't mine, I'm not quite done with it yet, I'm going with wire handrails out back):
I think that this is another decimal point mistake, especially since he states he rushed to get it posted while it was free: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Trix-Passen...629504?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item1e7f1d0e40
We've talked about this one before and I even emailed him to let him know that he misplaced the decimal point (he responded and thanked me for pointing it out)...then keeps listing it without changing a thing: http://www.ebay.com/itm/N-scale-mod...540229?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item258247e705
This one is funny for several reasons...first, it's a 1:1 scale V8 motor listed in N scale/MicroTrains. Second, it has a mistake in the title saying 'Chevy It1 with TRAINS' (should say 'trans' for transmission). Third, says that the front seal leaks (but only when going down the road) but then states 'Does NOT burn oil'. Finally, shipping for a V8 motor and trans is $2.75 http://www.ebay.com/itm/chevrolet-l...322705?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item3f2907e451
This listing says Micro Trains in the title, but I don't see anything from Micro Trains in the listing at all. Just 3 old Atlas cars, 1 Atlas engine and 2 Model Power engines. But they are 'Vintage', 'Rare' and 'appear to be NEW'...for $200 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Rar...681459?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item3cd55d0733
Old Arnold GP-30 $80...I love the picture with three of the four axles off the rail and a paragraph about what his shipping costs (that you pay) are and why but the item has free shipping (I know, he's using a template). http://www.ebay.com/itm/ARNOLD-N-SC...0?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item5649c420e4#shId
I just find this one ironic since the Southern Pacific only ever owned a grand total of 1 (one) RDC-1. Here's three, one powered RDC-2 and two unpowered RDC-1's: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Con-Cor-Thr...152489?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item338534a729
