Your locomotive

[Texas Zepher]

My model locomotive is - HO scale NP Z-6 4-6-6-4.
Unfortunately it has already been made by W&R, the catch is the real cost is $3000. So I would definitely buy it for $1000.

[icmr]

Anything ILLINOIS CENTRAL.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



ICMR

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[Anonymous]

They already have...thanks Overland!

[Anonymous]

I could lean both ways but $1000 is WAY to much for me, (expecally for HO of N)

[Anonymous]

I would not!!! My Loco I want is already provided by overland! And its rediculus! 895 dollas!! Whew!!! When i Can go to these Train shows and wait till the last minute and go Crazy and get 10 15 bucks knocked off decent stuff, im Talkin Genisis and Kato,... and Proto 2k... remember to Poke around at the train shows! lol

[SimRacin40]

I'd keep the engine itself simple,but then I'd give it some sort of artifical intelligence,perhaps program in your layout plan and then it could travel around the layout on its own accord,provided there isn't another train heading towards it on the same track.(I'm sure the beta version would provide a couple head on collisons.) It'd be interesting to see a train doing what it "wants",although the route selection would be random.

I can dream,can't I? [:p]

[Anonymous]

Maybe not for one but maybe for a set By set I mean the BN DF40-2 set. Only company
that might produce it would be Overland but they said they cant find enough information on
the prototype to build it.

[trainfreek92]

well maybe a gp7 maine central with the green/gold schme full scale

[Anonymous]

For me? How about a 1:1 scale F45...

Love dem 645s!!!! Vrrrrrooooooooooooooooooooooooooooommmmm!!!!

[:D][8D][:)][;)][:P][:P]

[ICRR1964]

My choice would be a GP7 in brass with the latest sound equipment, best DCC money could by, the smoothest running of any loco out there on the market with a paint raod painted in the Bloomer Line road.

[Anonymous]

Why spend $1000 dollars on the loco I want when I could find anything I want for $100ish and then pay $150 for it to be custom painted, kitbashed and detailed. I just saved myself $750!

[Anonymous]

I'd love to have a Shay in brass, but I'll never buy one. It's just stupid.

[loathar]

Fthunder11-You do know that Bach Spectrum makes that HHP-8 in Amtrak colors,Right?
Saw it in the Dec. MR.

[Virginian]

I want a BLI or Proto 2000 Heritage level quality Y6b to replace the brass ones I sold. I am getting by with Rivarossi, but would like better. PCM has announced a Y6b. In my opinion it is overpriced at $700 so I am not going to get one unless the street price turns out to be quite a bit less. Haven't heard Lok sound yet either, so unsure about that. I am resisting the urge to reward manufacturers who introduce models I want, but price them too high. I thought the BLI Class A and J were reasonable for what one received, and I fail to see what makes this engine worth $300 more.

[railroadyoshi]

I would never pay 1000 for a MBTA F40 (being I could just decal one). What I'd really like is prototypically correct MBTA coaches!!! Mebbe i'm being too picky, but ther MBTA never used horizon cars, they use some sort of German Cars that are SIMILAR to Horizon cars.
Then again, thats a coach, not a locomotive[:D]

[Anonymous]

For me, a thousand dollars for a locomotive - whoa! - Heady houghts......I'm an N-Scaler and I model the Milwaukee Electrics. I'd GLADLY pay a grand for a LITTLE JOE (from KATO (of course) with working pantographs, DCC, and sound not that there's much of that [:-^] I've got a SPUTNIK pairing already with a pair of ex-KATO EF's, but a LITTLE JOE would REALLY make my CHRISTMAS MERRY & BRIGHT!

[Anonymous]

Lets just say a BLI SF 4-8-4 2900 class engine with hornby live steam in it that could run on both conventional DC & DCC.

[RMax1]

You just saved a bunch of brass guys some money!

RMax1

[Curmudgeon]

A re-issue of Rollin Lobaugh's Challenger, detailed for NP, with only drive change being can motors, but that's not critical.
All sand-cast bronze parts as original, ScaleModels couplers (none of this Kadee stuff), balanced as the original.
In 1:48, none of this Proto garbage.

TOC

[palallin]

O scale Frisco 1500-class Mountain, preferably the 1501.

FWIW, the top-line O scale brass imports top out north of $3000; $1000 would be a bargain.

Of course, I could model it myself. The advantage would be gaining the skill a knowledge to fabricate in brass using a lathe, end-mill, and resistance soldering unit (and would therefore be able to model other locos as well), but the drawback would be a much higher up-front cost, well over the $1000 limit.

[zigg72md]

I would want an O gauge S2 6-8-6 steam turbine with a 16 wheel tender. Painted black with no road name but the engine number 1972(my burth year).

[icmr]

Illinois Central SD40-2 by Kato and everything that it needs to run. I emailed Kato about it.



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[waltersrails]

i would have a SD50 Chessie System update every thing.

[selector]

IF I had that much to spend for myself, it would be for a CPR 2-10-4 Selkirk #9000. That was the one they modified with a three-part boiler, where steam moved from one chamber to the other at 1600 psi (nope, not an error). It had three cylinders runnng at 250 psi, and a booster running at 850 psi.

The crews gave out before the engine did in trials. I think it was ulcers...or maybe it was hemorrhoids.

[SpaceMouse]

I need 3 2-6-2 Saddletankers for the California Western railroad. But I can make a lot of kitbashing mistakes for $1000.

[jeffshultz]

I suspect I'm dittoing what everyone else here has said when I say that $1000 is too steep, regardless the level of perfection.

Realistically I could probably hunt down brass GP39-2s (ATSF version) and have them custom painted for less than that.

And the CFO would be deeply unhappy with me if I did....

[bbrant]

I have a wife. The chances of EVER having an extra $1000 bucks for any type of model railroading (or anything else for that matter) are slim to none!! [:)]

[keystonecrossings]

Baldwin Centipedes, please!!!

[Anonymous]

My loco would be an R-32 subway car. But 1000? actually, if it were brass, it would be worth it if all the details were in place. But honestly, i am in the process of building one to scale from scratch out of styrene and so far i have spent about 5% of that, with impressive results. ......its just taking some time