Peach Creek Shops has lots of N scale steel mill stuff including ingot cars bottle cars and slag cars. KenRay Models also has tons of cars for steel mill modeling. They also carry lots of military models that make great flat car loads......Mike
Haven't posted but a new "worst of Trainfest" came at the Duluth airport when flying home. All the purchased (probably the Prodigy Advance Controller) prompted a bag search and the call out "No problem, they're just MODEL TRAINS." And, they confiscated some powdered ballast glue I was going to try out. As to the Steel Mill, we have had this discussion before, but it turns out statistically that N scale is NOT the scale for big industries that some think. Its still the space saving scale more 99% of N scalers. I would gather in any scale, most modelers have small layouts, so any big industry is targeted at the "1%" of serious modelers who go big with their layouts and there is a limited market overall. Apparently, there are just enough of those in HO with its larger participation to make these things profitable, but just to well under the number in N scale, which isn't suprising since N scale sales are 25-33% of HO. I always figured that the mfgs generally know more about their business than us shamelessly biased modelers. Except, that I know if they just made more Harbor Belt stuff, it would sell in a heartbeat......smiley face inserted.
