Made in the USA

[Roger Holmes]

While searching eBay for G scale Milwaukee Road items (particularly passenger cars) I came across a new product from a company called Mainline America of Merrillville, Indiana (I think that's in NW Indiana not too far from Chicago).  They list their capabilities as including injection molding and pad printing so that may be of interest to some of you entrepreneurs. 

I have not seen any of their products in person but here's a link to their website

http://www.mainlineamerica.com/

[jmlaboda]

But are they willing and able to do so in N-scale?  G-scale is a big difference production wise.

[Roger Holmes]

Don't know but if they can do a G scale brake wheel I would expect that they could do an N scale car--I know but can they do an N scale brake wheel?

All I know about the company is what a saw on their website.  Just happy to see some trains made in the states.

[TrainCat2]

YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP !!!!

Joseph @ Mainline is ramping up on N-Scale 

[Philip H]

um . . .Bob . . . did anyone tell him those things breed like rabbits in the South?  I'll have to buy like 200 just for the tiny stretch of highway on my layout . . .

 

[Bob Bufkin]

Those are the official spring flowers in most states.

[Mike C]

Stay off the freeways in downtown Columbus, somebody spilled MILLIONS of them !! LOL......Mike

[w neal]

Sent them an email. Suggested a couple small items to get started with in N (non - rolling). Got a nice response. Sounds like they are ahead of me. Maybe we will see some items through them in future...

[Packer]

Those are the official spring flowers in most states.

I'd have to agree with that. I try to avoid them like the plague. Has anyone tried slaloming them?

[w neal]

I can neither confirm nor deny... 

[Philip H]

There was a grad student at LSU when I was there, in experimental biology, who actually wrote a paper on the reproduction habits of ornage traffic barrels, and got it published in a regional science journal because he was using traffic barrel counts to test some model of fast moving, quickly reproducing mammal species.

Bob, I didn't find that drawing on their website, but I did see the January 2012 announcement.  Any chance you can give us a link?

[Bremner]

Those are the official spring flowers in most states.

yeah, for the states with 2 seasons...winter and road construction. Here in AZ, it is reversed, summer and road construction

[Wardie]

Someone ought to also make the crushed orange barrel that the construction guy set too close for the big truck to get around that ends up in the ditch. I have hit and crushed a couple over the years, along with traffic cones that they set far enough apart for a car, but didn't fit under my cargo box or my outer dual lies ended up clipping, usually at intersections or off ramps. I know it is slightly off topic, but those orange barrels rarely make driving more enjoyable.

[pnolan48]

Driving in New Mexico on 550 between Bernalillo and Farmington, just before the road was expanded from two to four lanes perhaps 15 years ago, we came upon the staging yard for the construction, with what looked like a million orange barrels, most with their lights blinking. "At least," said my oldest daughter, "we've discovered their breeding grounds."

I've never captured an orange barrel, so I don't know if they have an on-off switch.

I'm finding out that casting for production is indeed difficult, much more so than casting a few parts for myself.