Paul: You are right. Even today, most train layouts are done with older buildings and vehicles. A good friend of mine is into trains and has a huge layout. He prefers (loves) okder vehicles...

Location: Md.

As far as the 1/87 police cars go, you can get modern ones made by Busch or Walthers, as far as Crown Vics and Impalas go. And now Model Power offers a 2005 Crown Vic. But as far as modern fire rigs are concerned, Boley has cornered that market. And Athearn, while their Ford C fire line is the tops, and now their soon-to-be released late-60's Ford pumper looks nice, they are catering to the model railroader, and that's what their bread and butter is, not us fire truck model collectors. That's to be expected.

Too bad there's not a company out there run by a firefighter who understands what we want, caters to the collectors instead of the model railroaders, and just cranks 'em out for us. Now that would be the ultimate thing!