WEAVER MODELS is CLOSING

Sad very sad. Picked up a weathered steam engine from Weaver at this last York.  Most of my rolling stock purchases over the past year have been from Weaver.

Wow, I remember when they started. Always had good stuff and made in U.S.A. Makes you wonder..........

sure do like there cars...... Joe Thank You and enjoy you retirement.... you will be missed....

Just wanted to say Thank You! to Joe H. and his employees for all the great stuff I have purchased form them over the years!

 

Best Wishes,

Simon

Joe gave the SDMRR Museum a locomotive - it is still running.  MTH and Atlas give the museum gears, and we thank them for their generosity.  As far as I know, the only donation of a complete locomotive to our local museum O Scale layout was from Joe/Weaver.  My thanks to Joe, and indeed to all who help.

Congratulations on your retirement. 

Brasseur Electric Trains & P & D Hobby Shop are my local dealers, 

for Weaver Models

Your Logo says it all...........

Wow! Always wanted that Conrail bicentennial GP 38. So goes the story of  my life... A day late and a dollar short. Lots of great stuff they put out. I will miss them dearly.

I don't have a lot of Weaver items in my collection, but the stuff I do own I really like.

 

I remember when OGR did an article on Bob's home layout.  Amazing.

 

Thanks for all the great products and service!  Enjoy retirement!

I've only been in the hobby since 2003, but have acquired a lot of Weaver products. Thank you for the trip, it's been wonderful.  Here are some of Weaver's products, my layout.

Baldwin Pennsy BP20

 

Alco C630's

 

Canadian Pacific Hudson.

 

Pennsy E-8's

 

Grand Canyon #29

 

GP38-2.

 

RS-3

 

Pennsy C1 0-8-0

 

Pennsy M1a/b 4-8-2  I believe one of their first brass offerings.

 

Pennsy H10  2-8-0

 

Pennsy L1s Mikado

 

U25b

 

Alco RSD 12

 

Pennsy G5 4-6-0

 

Pennsy A5 0-4-0

 

It's been a wonderful experience.  There is also a lot of Weaver rolling stock, coal cars and accessory parts. 

Thank you,

Michael C. Thompson

 

 

 

Well, I just kept telling myself that this must be a nasty rumor! Weaver is well represented in my rolling stock. I have more Weaver PS-1's than any other single type of car. There are a bunch of Woodsided reefers in my beer train collection.

 

Thank you for the numerous cars that no one else offered. I especially appreciate the troop sleepers, drop end gondolas, B&O Wagon-tops and the Milwaukee Road cars.

 

I only have one Weaver locomotive; the N&W 4-6-2 Pacific. I kept hoping there would be another run of the 2-8-0's. I'm really sorry I missed getting one.

 

All the best in retirement. You will be sorely missed.

The OGR tours of the Weaver facility and operations were really great. We got to see the actual operation of producing rolling stock. Always sad to see the demise of a manufacture of O Gauge products. K-Line and now Weaver, not many left.

 

   Bill T

The closing-up-shop part of this news is very sad indeed.  Of course the retirement part of the story, if that is indeed the reason, is very happy news for Joe!

I'm really going to miss these guys.  Hopefully all their tooling/molds will be purchased by someone (or some companies) who will continue Weaver's terrific line of products!  Best of luck to all their employees, too!

I will also miss Weaver.  I guess I will have to be content with looking for more of their stuff at train shows.

 

I am glad that they produced such a variety of stuff that no one else was willing to do, and I am glad I managed to get on the last, or one of the last, OGR York tours to Weaver.  Great memories!

 

My thanks go out to all of Weaver's employees, and my best wishes for Joe in his retirement.

 

I may have to make the drive out on the 29th for one last visit.

 

Andy

Darned shame!  I always respected their attempt at real scale products.

 

What will happen to their ScaleCoat line of paints?

Joe Hayter and his employees were first class all the way. They were always there when I needed them. They made me fill like they really appreciated my business.
They were never to busy to talk to you. I will always grateful for what they did for me.

Thanks Joe to you and your employees.  

Gentlemen,

    Joe Hayter I wish you all the best in your retirement, and thanks for making my Masonic Train years ago.  I will miss your American made products very very much.  I hate seeing another Pa company coming to an end however.  Hope all your employees will be ok also, great people every one of them.

PCRR/Dave

Wonder what will become of their tooling?

I had been hoping for a reissue of the GTW U4B

Joe 

I am saddened.......I wish Joe a great retirement......however, we have lost a valuable niche. I hope someone picks up the name and the tradition......

 

Peter

First class people and I wish them the bast. I started buying Weaver streamlined steam engines in the late 1990's, and have several. Joe was always great to talk to and deal with, and Gary provided great service (which was rarely needed). I went through their facility a couple of times and everyone was always very nice.

 

Best to you,

   Gerry

 

Sad day for the hobby. 

Thanks for the great products!!

I'll miss ya!

 

Closing is sad news for a Top-Notch producer of "O" scale items. But have to ask, seems no one has, or missed it, WHY?

When I took my name off my consulting business, and made my final commitment to retire, I sought out and sold it.

Weaver was a successful company, a name recognized and known for quality merchandise and to not pass it on is a shame.

Congratulations on retiring, Joe! I've never had bad products from Weaver and will always treasure them.  

Sad day. I'm glad to see the reason is retirement and not a money thing. Maybe Menards will buy the tooling and expand their offerings... 

I have some of the First Engines Weaver made. AND they are still running!!

 

Fred

I'm wondering if he tried to sell the business first???  Hope somehow there's a last minute deal where Weaver will go on.   Hot Water ask about the paints, what about the employees?

Probably a pretty dumb question, but,

 

No offers to buy the company?

Sad to see them go, I hope someone picks up at least some of the product line and continues with it.  I have a number of their brass locomotives, they were always a good deal.

 

I hope this doesn't point the way to how US manufacturing is going to go, Weaver was one of the few that made their stuff here.

 

Dang!!  First K-Line and now Weaver...more and more mediocrity and the same recycling of a few expensive tunnel-visioned prototypes.  Wonder if the company was

offered for sale?  Competition breeds innovation and selection.  Not anxious to experience less, but MORE!  Bad news.  Fewer choices are not desired.

Should have sold the company to the workers. We need more companies not less.

My top Weaver favorite. Its little 2-8-0 decorated for the A&Y Ry. Thanks and happy retirement Joe.

Number two favorite is the Southern streamlined 4-6- 2#1380---"The Tennessean".

 

 

I got to tour the plant in Northumberland a few years ago.  The staff and workers were there to answer any questions we had.  Great operation and it was only 40 miles from where I live.  Gonna miss them, but hope they have a happy retirement.

Oh wow! Not good! I'm happy for Joe, but sad we are losing a great source for O Scale.

I still run my Weaver FAs. RS-3s, GP-38s, E-8s, and every brass PRR steamer they offered! I hope their dies are purchased by someone....Bowser in Montoursville, PA, perhaps? 

 

For the money, I believe Weaver rolling stock was tops for an operator. Just my humble opinion....Best Wishes to Joe and to Gary....the best repairman...ever!

like others have posted, seems the business could have been offered for sale or employee buyout.its hard to believe no one in the weaver/hayter family couldnt carry on the company.-jim

Enjoy your retirement Joe. You have earned it from the years you have made our hobby better. I will very much miss buying made in the USA. But when I looked back at all the stuff I have bought from Weaver over the years it was worth it. Now I will have many more years to enjoy it thanks to you. You now have the time to kick off your shoes, relax, vacation and enjoy family.....................Paul

Weaver was one of the key factors that influenced my return to this hobby in the early 1990's, during this period I went to the Dupage Train Shop in Wheaton,Il. During my first visit to this train shop I saw a highly detailed mill gondola car in a plain white box, asked the dealer who made these,they were the Roco Atlas cars, he also had the Roco boxcars and stock cars,I bought what he had available. He also had numerous cars built by a company named Weaver in black boxes, I never saw their cars before. Subsequently, I opened two bay and three bay ribbed and straight side coal cars and liked the detailing and graphics and purchased a few.

 

This initial purchase started my continued purchases of Weaver coal cars,boxcars, flat cars, stock cars, covered hopper car and recently the TOFC flat cars. The other selling point of Weaver to me, the cars were "O" Scale with 3-Rail Bettendorf side bearing trucks and couplers. Fast forward to today, the vast majority of my freight cars are Weaver, the remaining freight cars are AtlasO, Intermountain and Red Caboose which include the cars listed above and tank cars(Intermountain & Red Caboose) and the origional K-Line tank cars from the 1990's close which were close to scale size. All of the kit (Intermountain & Red Caboose) cars and Roco cars are equipped with the Weaver 3-Rail Bettendorf trucks.

 

Gary, a former employee at Weaver, always was a great contact person with questions over the years we had numerous discussions.

 

 

I know the LCCA and maybe other clubs would purchase Lionel product then have Weaver paint it for specific club offerings. Weaver also had a lower minimum quanity to produce exclusive offerings for the RR clubs. One less service now available for the train clubs.

 

    Bill T

My very best wishes for all those who have worked at Weaver all these years, giving us such great products and often unique ones too.

 

Weaver was some of my very first rolling stock, I appreciate their commitment to quality and being made in PA.

 

Good luck to you all!

 

Best,

Jason

A sad day for sure . . . . 

 

Decades ago there were lots of automobile companies but the inexorable march of markets and economics has reduced us to what we have today. Sadly, it seems model railroad manufacturers may be forced to concede the only path is what is dictated by the markets.

 

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