Monroe Trucking from Showcase Miniatures

[wbvrail]

Hello...!

We've just released a new N Scale kit of one of the most famous and long-lived hauling trucks in the history of trucking.  Even though it was introduced in the 1960's, it can still be found in service today. This kit includes positionable front wheels, a simplified build, stainless steel photo-etched details, 3d printed parts, pewter parts, vacuumformed windshield and Monroe trucking decals in both black and white. Silver Spike Designs contributed the cab design for this kit.  A sleeper is also available separately..

If interested, you can find it here:  https://www.showcaseminiatures.net/n_scale/n_scale_vehicles/

Thanks!

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[bbussey]

Walter, beautiful model.

Is there any possibility of seeing Mack cabs older than the B?  Or, for that matter, specific offerings such as this Monroe Trucking that utilize your Mack B cab?  There are not many Mack options available in N for mid-20th century modeling. Your Mack R models look fantastic but would be anachronisms pre-1960s.

[wbvrail]

Thanks!

We could explore producing and older Mack but, in general, most of our customers model in the transition era.  We could supply the decals separately however.

[bbussey]

That could be due to no available pre-transition era Mack models, yes?  Just a thought, unless your Mack B Bulldog is an indicator that there isn’t sufficient interest. I didn’t know you even had a Mack B cab until I stumbled across it while searching for long-discontinued Athearn products, for use as components in constructing payloads for my RBB&B circus consist. I used your Mack B to kitbash the Zucchini human cannonball truck, and would have used it for my canvas truck if I had known it existed.

[TrainCat2]

Since I am now modeling early 50’s at the Philly docks, I would need quite a few older Mac’s.

[amato1969]

Ooh heck yea, great looking model @wbvrail .  Time to get an order in!

  Frank

[thomasjmdavis]

Before I start digging a rabbit hole for us to go down, let me say that the model in the OP looks fantastic, and if I were modeling a later era, would be pleased to have one.

I'm confused by the use of "transition era" in this thread.  I can understand if it means something different when applied to autos and trucks than what it means in railroad terms.  But I am used to thinking of it as the transition from steam to diesel railroad locomotives on Class 1 railroads-overall 1935 (yes, there were some diesel switchers before that) to 1960, or if one prefers shorter, the majority of locomotives being steam to the vast majority being diesel, about 1945-1960.

In my own miniature world, it is 1956.  The 1954 IH trucks are over-represented, due to the CMW overstocks some years back, when they were going for $1 each.  So I am interested in anything WW2 era through 1956 that does NOT have a 1954 IH cab.