Need help to identify this kit

[skytop35]

Hoping all the PRR gurus here can help me identify this kit. Anyone know for sure? I only have a photo of the backside.

[mmagliaro]

I'm pretty sure that's the Mountaineer Precision Products  PRR Type "A" station.

I think this photo is an HO version showing what the other side looks like

http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/mtn/mtn961ho.htm

[skytop35]

  Thanks, that sure looks like the one.

[mmagliaro]

They are near impossible to find.   I don't think Mountaineer is producing kits anymore.   But I really liked
that one PRR station (I have one of those you pictured).  I thought it went together easily and looked great.  Unfortunately,
I don't have a place to use it on my layout anymore since it's not PRR.   It's such a pretty station that I'm tempted to repaint it in NP colors and use it anyway (I just heard a grenade drop in the hall and start rolling toward my desk from the PRR fans)

[skm]

Don't worry just a stun!
Your hearing and sight will return in a few hours.
Meanwhile I'm downstairs in your basement frantically searching for it! 

[pjm20]

(I just heard a grenade drop in the hall and start rolling toward my desk from the PRR fans)

That's just a distraction for what's really coming. 

[chicken45]

That's just a distraction for what's really coming. 

Ahem...




http://www.rgspemkt.com/215-P1.html

Sometimes I really wish I was in HO.

[SkipGear]

Mountaineer precision was here in town, well across the river in Florence, KY. For a while the kits were still showing up at local shows. The original owners son was trying to keep it going but I can't remember seeing them last year. Our local NMRA show is coming up in about a month. I will keep an eye out for any of the MPP kits and report back. I have a few of the kits and really wanted the Rabbit Hash general store but missed out.

** Rabbit Hash is a real town in Northern KY that has a population somewhere between 4 and 40, and has a dog for a mayor.

http://www.rabbithashusa.com

[DKS]

Mountaineer precision was here in town, well across the river in Florence, KY. For a while the kits were still showing up at local shows. The original owners son was trying to keep it going but I can't remember seeing them last year. Our local NMRA show is coming up in about a month. I will keep an eye out for any of the MPP kits and report back. I have a few of the kits and really wanted the Rabbit Hash general store but missed out.

Pacific Western Rail shows they still have Rabbit Hash still in stock--http://www.pacific-western-rail.com/n_in_stock.php?PWRSManufacturers_ID=511

AFAIK, Mountaineer Precision Products is out of business. Their website is gone, and most dealers have pulled them from their catalogs.

[SkipGear]

I found this......

http://www.aergroup.net/home/featured

It seems somebody has purchased the MPP product line and is planning to re-run short production batches.

[DKS]

I found this......

http://www.aergroup.net/home/featured

It seems somebody has purchased the MPP product line and is planning to re-run short production batches.

Yes, short batches of only four of the MPP kits: Rabbit Hash General Store, Sugar Shack maple syrup barn, Langdon Mill elevator, and the Universal building storage shed.

[garethashenden]

That's just a distraction for what's really coming. 

Vaguely related, during both World Wars the Royal Navy fitted 6" guns to depressed center flat cars as a last ditch coastal defense weapon.