@Oscale_Trains_Lover_ posted:That is very interesting news, I did not know the molds were still around!
Tooling for aluminum is fairly simple and can be done out of a garage or small workshop. You have the extrusion tool for the body, typically a punch tool for the windows, and an injection tool for the end caps if plastic. That is the appeal of doing cars in aluminum because it is malleable material.
It would be interesting to acquire the tooling for the cars and make them scale proportion. A punch tool for new windows is a few thousand dollars. Not cheap but not like injection tooling. Overall, they are about the same width and height of the Lionel cars so not scale. I like the pantographs on the Welz cars a great deal for what they are.
