Modern era stuff.
Cars
Crews
figures
buildings
etc.
(My Model Railroad, My Rules)
These are the opinions of an under 35 , from the east end of, and modeling, the same section of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway. As well as a freelanced road (Austinville and Dynamite City railroad).
See what a company called American Excellence carries. I think they have a few cars around $30 or less that fits the 70s,80s,and 90s. The have a Chrysler PT Cruiser too .I like their Chevy Camero Z28,Dodge Monaco,Buick Riviera,LeSabre and Chevy Caprice. Also check out the Cadillac Seville Mark 2. Never seen that in HO scale but it's $30 !
I will second this one. The clinic i attended a few years ago that Jim Sacco (City Classics) did at the Atlanta NMRA convention really openned my eyes to this sort of thing. Just about all of the Magnusun, DPM, Walthers Cornerstone, Lunde, etc downtown buildings have the original turn-of-the-century storefronts. From the 1930's-50's, most of those buildings were significantly updated with tings like aluminum trim, big plate glass windows, recessed entries, shiny surfaces like (enameled panels or vitrolite), front slip covers over the upper floors, and big flashy signs. There were all sorts of combinations from mild to really wild and it happened in towns all over the country no matter how big or small.
Based on the large number of modelers in the postwar and transition areas I would think such buildings would be very useful and really help to set the timeframe. Jim has about 3 such buildings that he added to his own lineup but other than that the options are very few.
-Jason
A four-aspect signal system (clear, approach medium, approach, stop).
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_ALEdDUB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
http://s73.photobucket.com/user/steemtrayn/media/MovingcoalontheDCM.mp4.html?sort=3&o=27
Modern fire trucks year 2000 - now
SeeYou190I know nothing about submarines.
I know a bit about submarines. I'm pretty sure its not a USN submarine. Maybe an early Holland or Lake boat that didnt get accepted? Might be a RN midget sub, but I dont know much about those.
Might also be a German submarine, considering the only other submarine they make is a VIIC....
Artitec makes this model of a US/UK midget submarine in cast resin 1/87 scale.
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It costs about $70.00 for the kit. I have been trying to find out how big it is, and what era it is from. If suitable I would love to rust it up and make it into a scrap load for a gondola.
I know nothing about submarines.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
1/87th scale model kits of ships and USN submarines (you can buy a VIIC in 1/87th scale, but Im not modeling Germany during WW2, so not really useful).
I'm an N-scale model railroader and an HO-scale fire apparatus collector. I'm going to echo many of the previous posters here. In N-scale we need American highway vehicles from all eras, but I would like to see American cars/trucks from the 1960's to the present. In HO-scale I would like to see more American fire apparatus on both commercial and custom chassis.
trevorsmith3489golf carts
switch stands with "backsaver" levers
Again a bulk trailer good for the 50's on. Would allow transload sites on many model railroads. Also a good working rotary dumper and rotary couplers that will fit in a standard coupler box. Lionel made a beautifull rotary dumper a few years back for their 3 rail stuff. It was a very nice scale model . Also a working coal loader . ---- Ken
Atlas Custom Line switches with retention springs like Peco has.
More art-deco style buildings, especially stores and office buildings. You can use the from the 30s up to today.
A kit for Irvine Train Station!!!
There are many modern combine harvesters available in HO scale. I would like a model of the Massey-Harris model 21A combine harvester. This was used during the 1940s and early 1950s in both the US and Canada. Just right for those of us who model the transition era.
That citrus is beatiful!
I guess "Citrus Chanker" and "Greening" never infected California. I hope they never destroy your citrus industry like happened to us in Florida.
I could use agriculture bins and workers picking fruit from trees.
NevinA steam locomotive specific radio controlled throttle.
It's early and I have only had one sip of my coffee and my brain is still off. Your idea intrigues me, can you expand on how it would be different?
Thanks
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
LensCapOn "Other Than Locos or Rolling Stock What Would You Like to See be Made" Coupler springs that don't spring away going Weeeeee! at the first attempt to install. Please note you didn't ask for what's possible, just what people want. (And I CAN'T be the only one who wants this...)
Coupler springs that don't spring away going Weeeeee! at the first attempt to install.
Please note you didn't ask for what's possible, just what people want. (And I CAN'T be the only one who wants this...)
I have extra springs you can have if you are willing to find them in my carpet.
Paul
Modeling HO with a transition era UP bent
Smaller sound decoders, smaller keep alive capacitors. Easy to install battery power. A steam locomotive specific radio controled throttle. A real easy to use operations software that actually works as advertised.
Water Level Route Ready to run 1930's, & 40's vehicles. Maybe the 20's too now with Jordan out of business.
Ready to run 1930's, & 40's vehicles. Maybe the 20's too now with Jordan out of business.
I'd like '20s and '30s vehicles, too.
Gary
MisterBeasley 7j43k I want the gates to go down smoothly and properly. I don't want a little arm sticking up from below. I want the FOUR flasher heads per signal to be scale size. And I want proper lights on the gates--that flash or not as appropriate. Also (close to) scale size. I used the NJ International flashers and gates with the Rob Paisley activation circuit. The circuit lets me put the sensors a good distance away, so the lights come on and the gates drop with a realistic time frame. I drove the gates with one Tortoise machine for the pair of gates, using Circuitron's remote activators, one for each gate. The NJ International gates don't have flashing lights on the gate arms, but they have everything else and I'm happy with them.
7j43k I want the gates to go down smoothly and properly. I don't want a little arm sticking up from below. I want the FOUR flasher heads per signal to be scale size. And I want proper lights on the gates--that flash or not as appropriate. Also (close to) scale size.
I used the NJ International flashers and gates with the Rob Paisley activation circuit. The circuit lets me put the sensors a good distance away, so the lights come on and the gates drop with a realistic time frame. I drove the gates with one Tortoise machine for the pair of gates, using Circuitron's remote activators, one for each gate. The NJ International gates don't have flashing lights on the gate arms, but they have everything else and I'm happy with them.
They are pretty nice, for sure. But I think they can be done even better. Before BLMA did their searchlight signals, there were some pretty decent ones. The BLMA are darn near scale perfect. Which is what I want in a crossing gate.
Ed
N scale code 55 double crossovers and single and double slip switches
N scale gusset plates.
Scratch building truss bridges is tedious enough.
I don't know if I can get myself to custom fabricate all those tiny gusset plates again.
I don't think this would be an issue if I still had my teenager eyes, but I don't, so it is. Chuckle chuckle.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
SeeYou190 Everybody should know by now what I want. . A brand new HO scale bulletproof industrial grade flawlessly operating track system. . -Kevin .
Everybody should know by now what I want.
A brand new HO scale bulletproof industrial grade flawlessly operating track system.
All you have to do to get that is switch to Marklin trains......
While the HO hobby has surely changed in the last 20 years, it still remains largely rooted in being able to build things yourself, or at least install, modify, adapt and tune a number of the different elements yourself.
If all the products were toy like plug and play, I would get out of this hobby........
Short of a toy like track system like Marklin or KATO, all track will depend on the skill and patience of the installer to perform at its best.
Atlas works fine for me.........
Sheldon