Intermountain has announced a Frisco USRA drop bottom gondola in six numbers with a build date of 10-19. Cost is: N-$24.95 and HO-$32.95 with the reservations due November 30th and available May/June 2015. This news is so hot off the press that I could not find any hobby shops showing their price yet. It is good to see more Frisco equipment being made available. Terry
FYI. The "pushers" have them discounted down to about $24.00. As I understand it (maybe!), this is a RTR car possibly with cast details, not a detail laden kit, which IRC also offers for the same car type. Ken
Ken and All: I checked the Intermountain site and these new offerings are listed in same group as the previously released road names which clearly show separate grab irons. Of course I may be wrong, but I don't think so. Intermountain has introduced a "Value-Line" which do not have the same level of detail. The first car offered is a 14 panel Coalporter.
Ah - I was told the new IRC gons were also of the "Value Line" variety. If not - good! I should have checked. If they are a release of new road names for their previous USRA gon kit, this time including Frisco cars, that is good. I just took the time to check the HO Hobbies message, and you are right. I stand corrected. I have the MP gon, from the earlier IRC kit, and a Frisco gon, from a custom IRC build from the first release. Nice cars. Looks like this time they are doing a "Frisco" coonskin with the car color (red oxide) background. Wish they would have done the car with a black background "Frisco Lines" coonskin instead, but any quality Frisco car release is OK. Ken
