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RE: (erielack) ERIE Wood Sheathed Caboose Kit



I have found either the QC kit or the Gloor Craft kit on eBay a number of times.  There is a GC kit on right now (with 2 hours to go) and I just forwarded the listing to Ben

> QC is out of business as such, the kit line was sold to Gloor Craft, as I wrote 
> just a second ago
That's correct.  My brother and I tried to buy the line from Bob Weaver but were too late.
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> But QC was owned by Bob Weaver, who also owns Scalecoat Paint, and also owns 
> Weaver, which makes O scale plastic kits.  
His son-in-law, Joe, took over the company.  They were getting into the O guage plastic, which continues nowadays, as well as continuing the paint line.  Bob retired and his wife, Shirley, who was also active in the business passed away a good while ago.

> If I'm not mistaken, Tony Horn got some coaching about producing wood kits from 
> Weaver back when he 
> (and his brother, I think?) started TK Models. But he can confirm or deny that. 
> 
> SGL 
You are correct, and we did produce a number of kits primarily based on Erie prototypes.  Ed Kelsey, one of the original ERS guys, was able to obtain a number of plans from the railroad which we were able to use.  My brother kept the (industrial) woodworking equipment and I still have the casting equipment but we haven't produced the kits for a long, long time.
Tony Horn

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