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Reply to "Did Another Manufacturer Buy the Molds For the Weaver RS3?"

Mike D posted:

I thought Williams/Bachmann got them when I saw they added a very nice scale RS3 to their line-up. Now that I see the responses here, I am wondering where WBB got their RS3. I really don't think they tooled it themselves.

WbB's is the K-Line RS-3, I understand; K-Line's was also a nice RS-3 model. Weaver and Lionel had very nice body tooling; MTH, surprisingly, blew it. The shape of the hood ends is quite incorrect; looks like the loco ran into a wall. (MTH also blew the contours of the NYC Hudson's smokebox door - but that's another surprise and subject.)

This "multiple RS-3's" situation actually annoys me in another way - so many remaining locos to model, which never will be offered, and we have/had 3 good and 1 meh version of the RS-3 in 3RO. Too many, for whatever reason. 

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