Model Railroading > Bev-Bel models

Does anybody know what happen to Bev-Bel ??And if so, when
they go out of business........

Thanks

JLSeale

Athearn's HO scale models were the keystone of BevBel's business. When Horizon bought Athearn and adopted their policy of selling only to brick-and-mortar hobby shops, they killed off BevBel's source of supply.

http://www.bev-bel.com/

Why didn't Bev-Bel then make a deal with Accurail for truckloads of undecs at a bargain rate? MDC might have been an alternative then, also, but a lot of their designs were severely dated, as in frame mounting holes visible in door tracks, etc. Sometimes Accurail seems a bit too conservative with their choice of paint colors (they use a lot of Boxcar Red and other drab motifs), and an outfit like Bev-Bel could really jazz them up. Athearn boxcars themselves were not that great of a choice in the first place due to the unprototypical bottom door brackets on the boxcar sliding doors. When something better came along, you would think Bev-Bel would have changed for the better, too. Without Bev-Bel, there is certainly less variety, and seems nobody else has taken up where they left off. Fans of lesser roads have less to choose from now. --- --- - --- JLH

highgreengraphics Wrote:
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> Without Bev-Bel, there is certainly
> less variety, and seems nobody else has taken up
> where they left off. Fans of lesser roads have
> less to choose from now.

I wouldn't be so definite about this. Athearn/Horizon and Atlas both seem to me to be doing a reasonable job of producing minor roadnames for their new releases.