Dear HO Scale Modelers:

Last week China sent us our first painted and decorated HO Scale National Steel Car 4275 cuft 3 Bay Potash Cars. Far many months now we have been working our way through final changes to the graphics and base colors of the cars.

Below you will see images we took at the NMRA Show in Portland. A couple of the large layouts were kind enough to allow us to take some images for you. We would like to thank the members of the LaBaJa Club for the use of their layout for images.

We will take images of all 10 production samples and make them available for viewing next week.

You will notice the different shades of grey used on the cars. We would like to thank the folks at PPG, Hempel, and Valspar for supplying us actual samples of the paint. So there will be no arguements as to the validity of the colors.

We hope to have the HO cars here in late Dec. We hope you enjoy.

A reminder for all customers:

We are only making a smaller qty (less than 100) copies of the special 5,000 Canpotex - National Steel Car Commorative Car. Make sure you log into your PORTERS account and place your order. We will not reprint the car.

One final note:

All of you are aware by now of the Special 2015 NMRA Canpotex Portland Convention Car. We will need to know by Sept 30th how many of you want a copy of this unique car. If you want one, make sure you get your order in by the deadline.

We have additional images and video coming from Model Railroad Hobbyist in a few day from our trip to the Port of Longview, Washington on Monday. Stay Tuned for more on this next week.