A positive note about State Tool and Die.  I placed an order for four C&O caboose conversion kits this past Sunday.  Today (Wednesday), the little parcel showed up at my mailbox, thought that was pretty fast service.

The conversion kits consist of two plastic sprues holding the parts and wire.  There was no flash and all the molding is clean and neat.  My plans to modify a caboose or two look to be fairly simple using these parts.

We're going to announce our latest run of ET44 GEVO locomotives tomorrow morning at the Railway Prototype Modelers Meet in Collinsville, IL. This run features highly-anticipated roadnames and paint schemes that we are offering for the first time.

Got a general question. 

Looking for a retailor that supports IMRC pre-orders.

My go to shop owner has retired, the shop I went to after that no longer accepts pre-orders for IMRC.

Recently IMRC announced that finally the N scale SD45-2s are going into production and are accepting pre-orders till the end of the month. After waiting over 5yrs for one of these I do not want to miss out!!

Thanks for the input in advance.