RMT's Next Success Story?

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: All I saw was the unpainted passenger set (it was crowded) but I bet the Pennsy rig was outstanding!

Actually, Bob, the Pennsy cars weren't put on display at York until midday on Friday, so they may not have been there when you were there. The paint job on the samples was first-rate. People are gong to have fun with these.

Richard Bjorkman

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by DJSpanky

I'm very interested in something like this (along with some other RMT offerings) as I'm trying to put together a small, easily storable O27 layout for my 3 year old. Since the layout will be so small, RMT's products will be perfect for it.

I agree. Consider getting a external whistle for on or under the layout. I use a Lionel one on my Christmas layout so kids can blow it without going near the transformer. The RTM engines don't have whistles, and this would be cheaper than installing one in each unit. Joe

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Craignor

Folks,

I like the looks of these, I saw them and the shorty passenger cars (peeps) that were on display too. They look cool. I have three Beeps and am very satisfied with them.

My only recommendation for Walter is to sell a optional version of each Beep, Beef, and Buddy with a horn and a bell. Sounds would add alot of play value, but I am too inept to do an afftermarket conversion myself.

I would pay $100-125 for one equipped with sound.

Craignor,

I am so sure you could install a Sound Commander, if you contact me I will send you one for free to prove it. You installed the windshield in the Beep, right ;) This is almost as easy!

BTW: the BEEF is the same power truck as the Beep; thus the BEEP upgrades for sound and TMCC will work on the BEEF...

jon
www.electricrr.com

[Bob Keller]

Ready Made Toys has drawings of their passenger cars on their website. I ordered mine ...

http://readymadetoys.stores.yahoo.net/rmttoytrpaca.html

[Anonymous]

If they made a beep like this electric engine I would get a few.[img.nr]http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b6da29b3127cce886fa15eed2900000016100ActG7Ru0ZsWJg[/img.nr][:)][:)]........Felix

[CSXect]

[8D] If enough people ask for a box cab locomotive it just might happen.


I would like to see a texas special beef and beeps.[8D]

[Anonymous]

There's little doubt in my mind that a boxcab, similar to the Lionel 520, would be well received, and is long overdue. The tooling would be no more complex than that used for the BEEF or PEEP, aside from the need for a pantograph, and the locomotive could be produced in the rainbow of liveries that we have seen, thus far, for the BEEPs.

As founder of the "Friends of the 520" initiative some years ago (that used to be my tagline back when I was on the AOL forum), I spent a lot of time imploring Lionel and other firms to reproduce this neat little engine in an upgraded version (with operating lights, window inserts, and a more durable pantograph) but to no avail. A good number of others issued similar pleas, but all have fallen on deaf ears to this point.

Perhaps the best chance of ever seeing this engine produced rests with Walter. I don't wait around waiting for it to happen (I have two of the original Lionel 520s in excellent shape), but I can guarantee that I would be first in line for three or four new and better versions if/when they are ever produced. There's little doubt in my mind that this type of locomotive would, if done properly, outsell even the ever-popular BEEPs. It's just a natural for a switching layout and the one real advantage it has over BEEPs, BEEFs, and PEEPs is that it represents an authentic prototype. Because that it so, it definitely has the potential of reaching an expanded audience.

[Jumijo]

I'll second your motion on the Lionel 520, Allan. Richard Bjorkman, who posted above, runs one of them (or something very similar) at shows from time to time in my area, and that is how I was initially introduced to those neat little engines. A 520 knock off would be a great seller for RMT, if not Lionel.

Jim

[Anonymous]

Well, to each their own. To me, the 520 looks like a caboose...actual prototype or not. I have, or have ordered, most of the RMT offerings, but a 520 would not interest me. Joe

[NZRMac]

QUOTE: Originally posted by marxalot

I'm going home and measure up my greatly loved Marx Monon A-A units. I think they are 22" overall which means this Beef unit at 10 " is right in there. I bet an A-B arrangement would look very nice. I see where both are powered too.

Jim

[Anonymous]

After leaving the trains on the shelf in the closet for a realy long time, i got them down when my girls started to show and intrest in trains. (ok they watched tomas) So i started to play with them more, then just out of chance I went to lionel 's visitors center with my wife and girls, and i was hooked again. I picked up a couple of 5 buck cars there, and a catalog. But then prices they wanted for there stuff was just to unreasonable for something for me and the girls to play with. But i was still hooked on the trains. I started picking up OGR and CTT and found these beep things. "What the heck is a BEEP?" So i started looking around for them. Just what i was looking for. A nice little sheep loco that i wouldn't have to try and keep the girls away from because i was too afraid that they might break somehting. Something that me and the kids could realy enjoy and get a lot of use out of. That trip to lionel rekindeld the joy of trains in me, but RMT's products got me realy excited. So for fathers day the girls got me a Pennsy BEEP. OK, I got me a Pennsy Beep so the girls and I can run the trains some more and just used Fathers day as an eccuse. I would realy like to get a sound system now so they have a whistle. (I run the throttel, but its the girls job to work the whistle.)

[FJ and G]

Here's a cool eggliner that would be a nice product. Also, notice it's power source...

http://www.geocities.com/eggink806/eggliner.html

[NZRMac]

QUOTE: Originally posted by NZRMac

QUOTE: Originally posted by marxalot

I'm going home and measure up my greatly loved Marx Monon A-A units. I think they are 22" overall which means this Beef unit at 10 " is right in there. I bet an A-B arrangement would look very nice. I see where both are powered too.

Jim

How the h*** did I post this? I was looking at a Marx Monon on our local auction site and did a little googleing to find out more, found this on trains.com but didn't know I posted anything weird huh??

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Toys-models/Models/Railway/Locomotives/auction-59470975.htm

Ken.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by kevingol
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for fathers day the girls got me a Pennsy BEEP. OK, I got me a Pennsy Beep so the girls and I can run the trains some more and just used Fathers day as an eccuse.

Now you need the 3 PRR "Peep" passenger cars for it to pull. Pre-order now for Fall delivery. I ordered the B&O "Peeps" for my B&O "Beep". Joe

[douellet]

The idea for a 520 boxcab sounds like it would be a good seller for RMT. I think RMT is making some great low priced trains. I'd like to see them make a GE 44 or 70 ton style body shell to fit on the beep power unit. I bet it would be popular item.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: There's little doubt in my mind that a boxcab, similar to the Lionel 520, would be well received, and is long overdue. The tooling would be no more complex than that used for the BEEF or PEEP, aside from the need for a pantograph, and the locomotive could be produced in the rainbow of liveries that we have seen, thus far, for the BEEPs.

As much as I agree with Allan Miller about the need for an affordable boxcab electric in the spirit of the Lionel 520 and as much as I would be inclined to buy several of these, I am not sure that the "rainbow of liveries" would really work out as well for the boxcab electric as it has for the BEEP or as well as it could for the forthcoming BEEF. Would people buy boxcab electrics painted for the many railroads that never had electrified trackage? If I were Walter Matuch, this would be a serious consideration for me.

This is why, when I mentioned the boxcab idea to Walter, I suggested that the body tooling be designed in such a way that it can be molded as either a boxcab electric or a boxcab diesel. The boxcab electric would be great for those of us who want such an engine, but would probably be viable in only a limited number of road names. The boxcab diesel could probably be made in a wider variety of road names and would also, to the best of my knowledge, be the first mass-produced model of a boxcab diesel in the 3-rail O-gauge market.

Richard Bjorkman