If you have not seen the announcement for the new coal mine kit from Walthers, here is the page: http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/933-4046 Question: In the May 2012 Model Railroader, pages 38-39, Jim Hediger showed how to kitbash a smaller mine from the Walthers New River Mine Kit for the Virginian project. Looking at Jim's pictures and the pictures of Walthers newest coal mine offering, do they not look the same? Or are my eyes deceiving me? It would seem Walthers new kit is a pretty close copy of Jim's kit bash. What do you think?
It does look similar... however, to me, it looks like Walthers just updated the older mine kit with a loadout and a slighty different looking main building. But, just my opinion.
