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Freight car models noone makes that you'd like to see...

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Posted by RDG1519 on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 4:27 PM

The 4o foot version of the RBl (refrigerator, bunkerless and with or w/o load restraints); sometimes called an insulated plug door box car in "HO". Branchline did a superb job on two versions of the 50 footers. ATLAS did a remarkably good job on "N" versions of these. We need a 40 footer with separate grabs, ladders, and handrails. Genesis, ATLAS, Branchline, these would be a great addition. ATLAS has already done the research. No one does these with separately applied details except in resin.

My two cents, Chris

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Posted by mcddhawk4 on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 4:33 PM
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Posted by bogp40 on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 4:49 PM

 Kurn wrote:
Plastic kits of B&O wagontops.

Well not in plastic, but these resin kits are the most acurate out there. The link is to the B&O Historic Society company store. These Pacific Mountain Scale Shops  I-12s are in three versions  http://www.borhs.org/Shopping/index.html I'm still working on 3 of them. Clic on models and scroll down the page.

Another beauty that was just released is the I-17a bay window.

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Posted by Maurice on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 7:42 PM
Plastic kits of shorty (34' to 38') wood boxcars, with steel underframes and steel ends.
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Posted by PASMITH on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 9:25 PM
 TwinZephyr wrote:
For the most part I agree with Dave H.  But I would put a 34' or 36' HO scale wood truss rod flat car at the top of the list.  It would be so easy for Athearn to add a truss rod flat car to the Roundhouse line.



Absolutely, positively! If I want one now, I guess I will have to purchase some old metal ( For weight) MDC 36ft box cars and throw away the box.

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Posted by leighant on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 9:27 PM

Santa Fe BX-3/6 panel-side double-sheath boxcar in N scale

Santa Fe BX-O fishbelly sideframe boxcar in N scale

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Posted by steemtrayn on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 9:38 PM
Who is this Noone, anyway? Surely you can't be referring to Peter Noone (of Herman's Hermits fame). Another musician/model railroader?
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Posted by CPRail modeler on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 9:54 PM

MORE CPR SPECIFIC MODELS!...

...IN THE $10-$15 RANGE!!!

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Posted by DavidBriel on Thursday, January 17, 2008 2:59 AM

  Modern Tropicana reefers in the current WHITE scheme

  Atlantic Coast Line H-1 Woodchip Hoppers

  Savannah & Atlanta PS-1 Boxcar series 8200-8249

  Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis steel side Gondolas

  Western Railway of Alabama Gondolas 11800-11849

  Generic Steel or Wooden Bunk Cars similar to those in the 1970's movie "Breakheart Pass", which are actually boxcars with two windows on each side of the door.

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Posted by bawbyk on Thursday, January 17, 2008 11:24 AM
Not actually new but how about bringing baack the 30 foot shorty tank cars once made by Roundhouse
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Posted by bladeslinger on Thursday, January 17, 2008 11:52 AM
How about a 70's to 90's style Carbon Black hopper.  Rail Shop Inc. makes an older carbon black car (1940's), but I'd like to have one a bit more modern that would look good running on layouts depicting the 1970's to present.   There are several companies that they could be painted for, including Sid Richardson, Continental Carbon, and I believe I saw some the other day with a logo reading something like "ECI".  Also they could produce some with generic looking reporting marks such as GACX, etc...like I've seen on some cars.  I'm sure these would sell very well, because there are a lot of people who like to model tire making plants and so forth.  But even if you don't have an industry for the cars to serve, they'd look great going by on your mainlines or filling up your yards. 
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Posted by LabLarry on Thursday, January 17, 2008 11:56 AM
I would like to see a smooth side RD4 and a smooth side grain car.
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Posted by LabLarry on Thursday, January 17, 2008 12:01 PM
 wjstix wrote:

A modern Great Lakes iron ore / taconite car, like BNSF has used the last 10 years or so.

 

Along with what GBW and the ribbed side cars CNW have used.  I would also add the rounded ortner type cars that AC and WC use for ballast and all rail movements.

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Posted by jawbonejon on Thursday, January 17, 2008 12:08 PM

I'll second your suggestion, Dave, and thanks for the info. I surely hope some manufacturers are reading these messages! Personally, I'd like to see at least one N scale model of a Milwaukee Road 40-foot horizontal ribbed boxcar. I understand there were thousands and that they were pretty widespread in the transitional and postwar era, yet I'm not aware that any have ever been offered in N.

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, January 17, 2008 12:11 PM

 

N scale all-purpose well cars, not the 48' Gunderson that Con Cor did, the very attractive and unique 40' articulated AP Gundersons that NOKL and SFLC run and the 53' Gundersons FEC runs, and the 53' Thralls that are appearing more and more. Big missing hole in the N scale intermodal market!

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Posted by Texas Zepher on Thursday, January 17, 2008 12:22 PM

 bawbyk wrote:
Not actually new but how about bringing baack the 30 foot shorty tank cars once made by Roundhouse
I like that car but the Roundhouse kits were terrible.  I have close to a fleet of them and can't get them to stay together without using too much glue.  How about someone else making them.

Howabout one of those modern tank cars that are always painted in white and they have a large of square box on the top instead of the normal dome.   I see mass quantities of them in trains but can't even figure out what they are carrying. 

 mcddhawk4 wrote:
Sign - Ditto [#ditto] and the shorter ones also.

Then there is the NP Big Pig Palace.   Mehano has made a normal Pig Palace, but I want the big one.

The GN plywood covered smooth side box cars.

 

 

 

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Posted by rfsdesign on Thursday, January 17, 2008 12:25 PM
I model the Milwaukee Road in N scale and I would also like to see a horizontal rib boxcar produced. I'd also like to see an MILW horizontal rib bay window caboose. Walthers has one in HO, how about one in N?
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Posted by Roger38 on Thursday, January 17, 2008 3:08 PM

A model that we see quite a few of especially in the summer are the 66 or 68 ft six axle DODX flat cars hauling tanks and other equipment to a local military camp for the summer deployment.

 I also would like to see the newer refers with the end style refer units.

Although it is out of my current modeling era, but in my nephews ere, would be the NP pig palace.  I think there were two sizes of these.  They may have been done in brass, but thats to rich for us on a retiremnt income.

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Posted by billso on Thursday, January 17, 2008 4:09 PM

TZ, the GN plywood boxcar topped my list until last month, when Intermountain announced they're makin' them:  http://www.imrcmodels.com/news12112007flyers.html.  Great news!

I'd like to see the "fat-domed" single-dome tank cars so prevalent in the 40's-60's (GATX, UOCX, etc), along with a good-quality triple-dome car.

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Posted by Texas Zepher on Thursday, January 17, 2008 4:21 PM
 billso wrote:
the GN plywood boxcar topped my list until last month, when Intermountain announced they're makin' them:
you know now that you mention that I remember the annoucement.  Just forgot about it while I was posting that note. 

I'd like to see ...a good-quality triple-dome car.
You mean you don't think that the Lifelike, Bachmann, or "Industrial" brands are high enough quality for you!?!

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Posted by AltonFan on Thursday, January 17, 2008 5:32 PM

 rfsdesign wrote:
I model the Milwaukee Road in N scale and I would also like to see a horizontal rib boxcar produced. I'd also like to see an MILW horizontal rib bay window caboose. Walthers has one in HO, how about one in N?

I understand that a few of the boxcars have been available as resin kits, but I have yet to actually see one.  I would definitely like to see both the 40' and 50' horizontal rib cars available in N.

Dan

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Posted by gnrybob on Thursday, January 17, 2008 6:30 PM

While not an interchange car necessarily, I would love a few of those low sand hoppers that many rr's used to supply their sanding facilities.  I believe there have been a few made in brass, but not affordable plastic.

Rob

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Posted by FrankieJ on Thursday, January 17, 2008 7:11 PM

I would like to see a plastic model of:

Bethlehem Steel 52' gondola (LV,CNJ,RDG,B&O,WM and maybe others)I know that Sunshine makes this model in resin.

D&H ore hoppers-the cars that came in the yellow paint scheme.

Despatch Shops 50' plug door boxcars(NYC and LV)

 Frank

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Posted by rckingsnorth on Friday, January 18, 2008 11:38 AM

I would like to have a variety of 1945-1955 era 40' box cars, wood sided single sheathed and steel double sheathed, HO for me.

I am talking about the older inside heights of 8'-6" to 10'.  When you see a picture of a string of box cars of the 1945-1955 era you will see a variety of roof heights.  Every HO manufacturer has the 1937 AAR (and later) or PS-1 standard box with 10'-6 inside height.  Red Caboose/Tichey have the X-29, and InterMountain has a 1937 AAR with 10'-0" inside height.  We need more variety for this era.  Am I missing any others?

Ted Culotta in RMC has done an extensive series on these earlier box cars, based on Sunshine or Westerfield kits.  These craftsman kits are great for special models, but I would think that there are enough folks modeling the transition era (1945-1955) who would want a easy kits or r-t-r, Branchline/InterMountain quality.

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Posted by cthse on Friday, January 18, 2008 1:15 PM

Not exactly an exciting car, but...

     A nice, easy to modify or leave as is flat car, both 40' and 50' versions, with straight sills and fish belly sills.  Give it a laser-cut wood deck, choices of brake rigging.  In other words, something that could be turned into at least a decent replica of most protoypes.

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Posted by Mark300 on Friday, January 18, 2008 3:13 PM
 FrankieJ wrote:

Bethlehem Steel 52' gondola (LV,CNJ,RDG,B&O,WM and maybe others)I know that Sunshine makes this model in resin.

  Amen.....!

This is one that has stumped me for years why they haven't been produced.  These gons are not like the Roundhouse 50 footers or the Proto 2000 53 ft drop end gons either. 

They were ubiquitous with the above roads as manufacturered by Bethlehem steel, Greenville as well as by the indivdual roads in the case of the RDG.

A savvy manufacturer could easily recoup costs on this kind of car.

Not only did mid century trains have different height boxcars, they had 'spaces' with gons and flats that were often loaded or empty.

My My 2 cents [2c]

Mark

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Posted by South Omaha Terminal CEO on Friday, January 18, 2008 8:15 PM
Good news on the Pacific Surfliner Equipment.  Union Station Products has a Kit for them in plastic. See their site at http://unionstationproducts.com/.
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Posted by South Omaha Terminal CEO on Friday, January 18, 2008 8:20 PM

I agree on the DODX flats.  Service personnel and branches are getting more attention now.  So make it easier to honor them with "MMX's" - Modern Military Extras.

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Posted by DavidBriel on Saturday, January 19, 2008 1:15 AM
 cthse wrote:

Not exactly an exciting car, but...

     A nice, easy to modify or leave as is flat car, both 40' and 50' versions, with straight sills and fish belly sills.  Give it a laser-cut wood deck, choices of brake rigging.  In other words, something that could be turned into at least a decent replica of most protoypes.

A HO version of the Micro-Trains N scale Spokane, Portland and Seattle 50' Straight Side Flat Car would be an excellent model for a HO manufacturer to produce in plastic.

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Posted by Teditor on Saturday, January 19, 2008 2:08 AM

 steemtrayn wrote:
Who is this Noone, anyway? Surely you can't be referring to Peter Noone (of Herman's Hermits fame). Another musician/model railroader?

The same question I was going to ask, who is this new company 'noone'?

Are they N, HO, or some other, or are they a combination of scales, ie; N, OO and nE, which would be narrow gauge European or metre gauge would it not.

And yes - we spell metre as shown, not meter as it sounds, down under.

Teditor Wink [;)]

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