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My wish list (HO scale) - no brass or unobtanium alloy models, please (I want to stay married and hang onto my basement!) Baldwin Shark A & Bs in plastic (only ones available are from ER Models - ex Model Power units - good, but require lots of weathering next to Proto 2K diesels, or they no longer 'measure-up' detail wise. Also, the trucks are wrong, for they belong under an Alco. Mantua/Tycos were a cartoon caricature of the prototype, and are pure junk) If they were done by Proto 1K or 2K they would be perfect. L&N steam, esp the 2-8-0s, 2-8-2s, 4-6-2s, and 4-8-2s. Southern 2-8-0s, 2-8-2s, and 4-6-2s. L&N freight cars from the 1950-1955 era. Hardly any equipment is available even lettered for these, and not necessarily correct, either. Accurail would be my choice fro these. NC&StL freight cars (ditto above L&N comment). L&N caboose - wood sided in plastic (resin is still available from Michael George I think) Southern cabooses-both bay window and regular, esp wood sided, ones. NC&StL 4-8-4 "Yellow Jackets" - can't afford Overland's $1500. yikes! price tag generic heavyweight passenger equipment w/ modular window/door sides that could be kitbashed into something at least close to one's chosen roadname. more MOW equipment in affordable plastic. Craftsman bungalow residences similar to a couple of the recent Atlas releases, which are okay, but still not correct. These were built in 1900-1930 and still populate many residential, and now also commercial, neighborhoods close to RR tracks and depots all over the USA. They'd be perfect in plastic or resin. Generic L&N depots - perhaps modular, so one kit could make various depots that all share common architectural elements. There's a conspicuous lack of smaller SP and NYC steam engines (and although I don't model either at the moment, there's probably a lot of interest in both). And for my last and truly never to be ever produced in plastic hopeful - a Little River RR (std. gauge) 2-4-4-2 used in Tenn. logging operations. Was made briefly by Oriental quite awhile ago, when their prices were lower than BLIs are today !
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