- The "Sn3" Dispatch, the "Inside Track", & other Printed Stuff from P-B-L - (2024)

Call it our "Color Rolling Stock Catalog," if you will. . .

It contains 16 Pages of Great, Inspirational Color Photos of many of our ModelKits! ( You can see the latest of these by checking out our Rolling Stockpages.

Click the image above to see an ENLARGEMENT of its' cover. Or $5 American willget you one mailed first class that you can hold in your hand at other times...

We'd fully intended to go to press with this issue in the Spring of 2004, butwe never got it done until January of 2005. Too many new things coming on boardwas one reason. "Let's just wait 'til we get the pilot models of the XYZ inso's we can photograph them for the Dispatch"... And since the Dispatch, the"Inside Tracks", Newsletters, Instructions for Model Kits, Photo Shoots andDrawings for same, plus new kit development, plus everything you see on thisweb site are the product of a one man dog and pony show, not everything getsdone within the time frame we'd like to maintain.

Anyhow, on January 28th, 2005, this Dispatch was mailed out. If you're one ofour good friends and customers you've likely already got one in your hands bythis time. If not, but you're interested in quality, FineScale modeling, youcan order one out today. Enclosed $10 bucks so's we can recover some of ourcosts, OK? We'll even send it first class mail. ( US Only. Foreign will becharged whatever it costs to deliver one to your door. No more. [ Included inthe 9" X 12" mailer envelope will also be one of our current Catalogs; plus acurrent Brass List. ]

The Dispatch is printed on heavier stock than any magazine you'll pick up thesedays, with an even heavier stock for its cover, this one's a keeper! Quite anumber of our "regulars" have picked up an extra one so's they can keep one"for good" and still have one to drool over.

They're in limited supply so get yours ordered today.

Here's the cover of our very latest INSIDE TRACK, mailed out 1st Class to allof our domestic customers the week of November 18th. Chockfull of Great photos of even Greater Models, and all in living color! If youdidn't get yours yet, send us a $5 spot and we'llfire one off to you first class immediately. ( While they last, of course... )

Click Here, or on the photo for an Adobe Acrobat&reg file of the actual cover.It's not as cool as the real thing, but this is the web, right?

Printed matter costs more than "just time". . . It also costs real dollars toproduce. . . And since our occasional mailers contain no paid advertising, thusallowing us to supply you, our modeling friends with the superb color photosyou've come to expect from P-B-L on each and every page of each issue, we haveto charge for our stuff.

We've had a few guys in the past who balked at having to pay us for what isessentially a look at what we make and sell, but we figure these guys are eitheruninformed ( as to the actual time and money involved in producing the stuff... ); or so used to being deluged by junk mailers from computer, tool, and otherpurveyors of whatever that they probably think P-B-L is making a killing atthis business as we design, create tooling for, manufacture and marketfinescale stuff so that our loyal customers can have an ample supply of goodsto perpetuate "The Ideal Scale". ( Ahhh, if that were only the case. . . )

But alas, it's not. We may have a pretty cool web site that is, for the mostpart, up to date and functional; We may produce the finest railroad models;And we may have one of the loyalest customer bases on the planet. . .

But the fact remains that, while "Sn3" really is "The Ideal Scale" tomodel in ( because it's Big Enough to SEE, yet Small Enough to Operate ); themajority of its adherents are REAL MODELERS, highly interested in modeling theonly real railroading that makes any sense for all but the largest of layoutspaces: The Narrow-Gauge. . . And of course, this severely limits the size ofour hobby since most publications that deal with Model Railroading are orientedtowards "Mainline" modeling, with its huge, modern Diesels and all butextinct Steam Locomotives, both of which pull mile long trains in real life butwhich the average modeler has room to pull maybe 20 cars without the head-endunit nosed up against the caboose. ( Or even worse, nosed up against the EOTlight of the last car. No caboose in sight. . . Ugh! ]

If you're tired of seeing the character-less trains of the prototype pulling consists of graffiti emblazoned rolling stock with practically no trainmen insight, and you long for the days when Trains were Trains, with the magicalCaboose bringing up the rear; Or the idea of a Big Boy pulling a 15 carconsist around curves meant for yard goats just doesn't seem quite "right" toyou, then you need to click here. . . We've a "story" tailored just for YOU, my friend! 'Cause thesethings don't set well with us either!

We have a few of our most recentInside Tracks still available. Replete with cool photos of even cooler locomotivesand rolling stock with the added bonus ( ? ) of the usual comments by yr fthflsvt included too. If you'd like one of these "classics", then by all meanssend us your name and address and $5 bucks American and we'll see to it youget one. ( Costs us pretty near that much just to mail the things nowadays. . .) Then of course, if you actually BUY something off this one, the next one'llbe "on the house". . .