Stuff you wish was manufactured? Rare prototypes and scenery

[markie97]

A good quality generic camelback that I could letter for the Erie.

[KEN POZNANIAK]

How about a PRR E-44 electric?

[leewal]

As a Long Island Rail Road fan, I wish there were reasonably priced G5s ten wheelers other than expensive brass that usually don't run very well.  Con-Cor produces MP54 LIRR passenger cars, with roof mounted heddlights, but I won't pay over $100 for a passenger car. I'm sure less expensive models could be manufactured.

[CRIP 4376]

Rock Island AB-6's 750 & 751.  Also, the only locomotive made by Ingalls Shipbuilding for GM&O.

Ken Vandevoort

[KEN PIERCE]

A correctly scaled Sierra Rwy #3, the famous TV engine. Mantua made a grossly oversize version and sold 1000s if not more. There was a kit a long time ago, but with Bachmanns or BLIs chinese factories has to be possible in a good plastic model (DCC sound of course!)

[elocklin]

TractionAction1700

I am doing research for a business class, My project is a model railroad manufacturing company that focuses on the stuff that other companies don’t make. I figured many of you have locomotives you wish had models like the obscure early articulated locomotives or the high-pressure experiments. The KM diesel-hydraulics or maybe just some chain link fences or details? Give me some ideas!

 

I thought of two items that are just not available in plastic.  The Southern PS4 #1380 pacific steam locomotive that's the streamlined model.  It has been done in brass but has turned into a 'hen's tooth'.  The second item is a truely depicted model of the Southern bay window caboose that was ubiquitous on the Southern Railway System in plastic.  It, too has been offered in brass but that's another hen's tooth now.  Good Luck with both of them.

[WPinMD]

How some Western Pacific steam engines!

[John Busby]

Hi all

Egger Bahn was going to make what looked to me at any rate to be reasonable representations of the Maine two footers? or at least USA rolling stock.

But with a larger loco than the Forneys all ready to run in HOn30.also what they called a wild west station to go with same.

Unfortunatly they went broke before they could produce them.

I would like to see these models actually produced by some company the station was a little odd in being a platform and trackside wall only but that would have been usefull given the advertised advantage of the models was the space they did not need.

regards John

[baldwinloco]

I (and many other N&W modelers) would like to see, in plastic, two numerous and useful N&W steam locomotives, the streamlined K-2 Mountain (O. Winston Link's first N&W picture) and the Class M 4-8-0 used on many local freights. These have been produced in brass. There is a kitbash to shorten the shell of a 4-8-4 Class J, but a Class M is a harder project. Jeff Cornelius

[Marc_Magnus]

These are wish, and I'm sure this never happend because of some only commercial consideration, which of course I understand

First I model in N scale but my first wish is to see in N and HO more steam locomotives which are not USRA design or clones of the USRA design; some iconics machine have a lot of appealing and are really missing; in HO the chance to find some in brass exist but nearly none in N scale; really I'm tired to see more and more Big Boy or Challengers, Mike and other basic USRA design to be only produced and offered.

And this include Diesel locomotives which are now all the same for the most

 

Second and this is more  for N scale, more laser model; laser offer a lot of possibility especialy for N scale and produce also non generics models with specific details.

But sure is more a wish and dream than a really happening thing

[PGI123]

I would like to see the Union Pacific Steam Heater Cars B-1 and B-2 produced in HO scale - preferably in brass but otherwise in plastic.