slsf1 I'd love to see Atlas do a Alco C-415. I'd like mine in Rock Island's cherry red scheme please. That would make a most interesting switcher! Surely someone out there besides me likes C-415's.
I'd love to see Atlas do a Alco C-415. I'd like mine in Rock Island's cherry red scheme please. That would make a most interesting switcher! Surely someone out there besides me likes C-415's.
You are not alone!
Far as I know, the only offerings up until now have been in Overland brass ($$$) and ATT/IHC (very low price and nice shell, but huge, toy-like handrails, limited detail, etc.). Neither one has been in production for a while.
Perhaps it doesn't help that most parts of the country never saw one. The 10 RI units always ran around Chicago; the 10 SP units always ran around L.A. That leaves a total of six for the rest of the land.
Athearn and Atlas, and a couple other companies, have done a fine job these past few years giving us high-hood SOUTHERN Railway models. Athearn has given us SW1500, GP40X, SD40-2 (second run coming out soon), and SD45. I may have missed one, if so sorry. Athearn has given us several different runs of GP38, two runs of B23-7, a couple runs of SD35, MP15DC, and an upcoming B23-7. Again, I am sure I missed a model somewhere. Proto2000 had a GP30 a few years back. And some other companies have released some models as well. One bid disappointment was the BLI SD40-2, which has an awful paint job, and was well over 3 years late coming out.
But the two models I'd like to see most...no one has touched. GP38-2, and GP50. Athearn's had both 38-2 and 50 low hood models in the past in their blue box line, and with the new modular nose system they use, they could easily update those models, and put out some new models of both in other railroads using low nose and also offer us Southern fans a high hood model too. The Southern had 256 GP38's, and 90 GP50's, if I recall correctly. That's a pretty big pool to pull numbers out of for each model, and would offer Athearn an opportunity to release 3 or 4 numbers initially and then come back a year or two later and offer 3 or 4 more, which would give the modellers an opportunity to collect a nice little fleet of these's fine Geeps. Atlas, could easily approach these models too.
Before anyone mentions that Bachmann had a Southern GP50...it's toy-like shell, horrible paint job and department store trainset quality running gear easily knock it out of the "model" category IMHO. So I don't count it at all.
Kato also offered a fine model of the SD40 for low nose railroads awhile back. They could probably update that model with a high nose and give the Southern modellers yet another model. having a lashup of some Southern SD40's and SD40-2's would look really nice on any Southern theme layout.
My wishlist: (all "N" scale) DD35's, The double engined, four axel-trucked, sixteen-wheel'd, monsters. These were "B" units (NO CAB). (Of course I'd want the DD35A's as well.) That's what I would want the most! But ANY GP or SD "B" units in "N" scale would be awesome. Over the years, from early to late real railroads ran lots of GP and SD "B" units. But I am unaware of any models in "N" scale having ever been produced. There was a shell for a GP9 made many years ago but that's it I believe. I remember how great a set of GP40X A-B-B-B looked in SF red warbonnet! Come on manufacturers I think there were lots oif GP35B's out there. People might actually buy lots of them. Consider the "B's". Please? I'm just saying... I'd also love to get U50's U50C's and Veranda Turbines too! I wish us luck!
U5000C
I am surprised no one has mentioned the first Amtrak loco - the EMD SDP40F. Seems that would be a popular one across the country. And with Athearn having produced the FP45 recently, it seems like it would be an easy one to do.
If we are open to rare birds, how about the GP40P-2 and the SDP45, both in SP bloody nose... of course!
A "Genisis" quality RS-3 with road specific details, correct roof contours and window sizes, and the "Rodney Dangerfield" of "F" units, the FL-9. Or at least have Atlas or Athearn release a Red/Black, or Black/Red Alpert schemed New Haven RS-3's.mike h
For the M420W, talk to Bowser. The scuttlebutt is after the the run of Canadian MLW 6-motors, the M420W is next on their wishlist.
For my wishlist, I'd like some small road-switchers like the RS-23 or SW1200RS. Need some "pups" for the CP branchlines.
I agree. To expand on this a bit- SW-type, GP7-type, GP40-type, and the six-axle group- SD9-type, SD40-type, and FM-type, U-boat types in 4- and 6-axle. Maybe a "shell" to fit on existing chassis. Excellent for dummy chassis, but for the higher hooded slugs- I recall a former GP40 with an about six- or seven-foot hood-this could maybe fit on a powered chassis.
Pat Curtis
Parker, CO
DavidBrielHO CSX YN2 B36-7 5840 Complete Loco
HO CSX YN2 B36-7 5840 Complete Loco
This precisely, but with only one change: Road number 5894. :D
I'd also love to see Florida Central Railroad numbers 57 (GP7), 59 (high hood GP18), and 60 (high hood GP9). Oh, and the FCEN 207, GP35. THAT would be SWEET. :D
TA462I wish Proto 2000 would come out with a chopped nose GP9 in CN, CP and Ontario Northland colours.
I wish Proto 2000 would come out with a chopped nose GP9 in CN, CP and Ontario Northland colours.
CN and CP versions were made in N scale, but the HO version never went into production.
mcddhawk4 Slugs
Slugs
Some slugs would be nice. I have one thats a switcher but would like some road slugs in the converted GP's.
4x8 are fun too!!! RussellRail
RRTrainmanmcddhawk4 Slugs Some slugs would be nice. I have one thats a switcher but would like some road slugs in the converted GP's.
If the 'slug' you are referring to is the unit in the middle of the photo, it's not a slug--rather, it's the 'calf' of a cow-calf set, e.g. EMD TR4, TR5, etc. The stacks indicate the presence of an engine. (unless of course, your railroad removed the engine to make it into a slug, and left the stacks on.) By the way, I'm really digging your paint scheme. :)
garyla slsf1 I'd love to see Atlas do a Alco C-415. I'd like mine in Rock Island's cherry red scheme please. That would make a most interesting switcher! Surely someone out there besides me likes C-415's. You are not alone! Far as I know, the only offerings up until now have been in Overland brass ($$$) and ATT/IHC (very low price and nice shell, but huge, toy-like handrails, limited detail, etc.). Neither one has been in production for a while. Perhaps it doesn't help that most parts of the country never saw one. The 10 RI units always ran around Chicago; the 10 SP units always ran around L.A. That leaves a total of six for the rest of the land.
I'mm with you guys on that one. The SP&S had 2 which went to the BN, where they seem to have been stuck around Vancouver and Portland. I don't know where they were used at when on the SP&S
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
We need a TA Rock Island Rocket!
My votes are for an an Alco S-5/6, T-6, and RSD-12 (including low-hood); and, EMD SW1001, all in HO.
In HO, the manufacturers say that the SW1001 is too 'rare' to produce (I've asked), yet we have models for other rare locomotives (U18B, Gas Turbine, etc.). And, we have multiple makers of models like the RS-3 (Atlas, Athearn, Stewart/Bowser, and now Bachmann). Can someone explain this?
The "problem" with the SW1001 is that Reading was the only Class I to buy them. The rest went to shortline and industrial users. Reading's passed to Conrail, and then NS and CSX, so they aren't that "rare". I do find it amusing that Athearn does have a SW1000 model, which EMD actually sold fewer of, then the SW1001.
Nick
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Although I don't do HO scale anymore, I think it'd be nice to see one of the RS-3 hammerheads that the Western Maryland and other railroads had. http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=358913
You can also add KCS (2 ex-Corinth & Counce units), and CN (ex-EJ&E). Also, Genesee & Wyoming, Long Island, and most of the big steel companies had them. Even Amtrak has one. Atlas has produced models in the EJ&E, LI, and G&W (or affiliates) paint schemes. The U18B was only bought by SCL and MEC. I guess a Gas Turbine sells because it was UP and cool, but how many modelers have room to effectivley use it?
In HO scale, a re-release of the Atlas or Kato RS3 in Erie or Erie Lackawanna livery, About 15 years ago Atlas came out with an RS3 with the Kato drive. I saw one at aa train show in 1995 (Erie Lackawanna) and the guy wanted $150 per copy, which I thought was a whole lot of money for a loco back then. I'd surely up the ante for an RS3 of that quality now in either of those liveries.
Also, anything diesel in Erie paint scheme would be nice too. I haven't seen a new release of anything in Erie colors in a long, long time.
ALCo_NutAnd, we have multiple makers of models like the RS-3 (Atlas, Athearn, Stewart/Bowser, and now Bachmann). Can someone explain this?
How about umpteen dozen different manufacturers of F-units?
E-L man tom Also, anything diesel in Erie paint scheme would be nice too. I haven't seen a new release of anything in Erie colors in a long, long time.
I totally wouldn't mind seeing an E-L SD45 or SD45-2. All this thinking about the CSXT 8973 and whether or not it's operational made me think of that.
I'll add my two cents. SD18,C&O and C630, C&O also. Maybe Bowser will provide High Ad sideframes to add on to existing C630 models. Oh yes U25C and SW1. Thats all. Later
I have two Tiger Valley Model C420, they do run (DC) only. They both have brass wheel sets. Dose anyone know if you can swap them for NWSL nickel silver wheel sets?
twhite Heartland Division CB&Q twhite The 'bubble-nose' EMD E-2 A/B/B sets that were used to power the original CNW/UP/SP "City of San Francisco" streamliner. Very distinctive, IMO, and handsome as all get-out. And those handsome Burlington E-5's that powered, among other trains, the "Texas Zephyr." Tom Ditto Tom about the Burlington E5's although I have a brass E5 A/B set already. ... Garry: Question on those E-5's. I rode from Amarillo TX to Denver on the "Texas Zephyr" back in the early '60's, and the train was pulled by E-5's--I specifically remember the fluting. I also remember the 'B' unit having a down-slope on the end to match the shorter height of the Texas Zephyr cars, which at the time appeared to be a semi-unit train. Am I correct in this? That's certainly the way I remember the train. This would have been about 1964 or so. Tom
Heartland Division CB&Q twhite The 'bubble-nose' EMD E-2 A/B/B sets that were used to power the original CNW/UP/SP "City of San Francisco" streamliner. Very distinctive, IMO, and handsome as all get-out. And those handsome Burlington E-5's that powered, among other trains, the "Texas Zephyr." Tom Ditto Tom about the Burlington E5's although I have a brass E5 A/B set already. ...
twhite The 'bubble-nose' EMD E-2 A/B/B sets that were used to power the original CNW/UP/SP "City of San Francisco" streamliner. Very distinctive, IMO, and handsome as all get-out. And those handsome Burlington E-5's that powered, among other trains, the "Texas Zephyr." Tom
The 'bubble-nose' EMD E-2 A/B/B sets that were used to power the original CNW/UP/SP "City of San Francisco" streamliner. Very distinctive, IMO, and handsome as all get-out.
And those handsome Burlington E-5's that powered, among other trains, the "Texas Zephyr."
Tom
Ditto Tom about the Burlington E5's although I have a brass E5 A/B set already. ...
Garry:
Question on those E-5's. I rode from Amarillo TX to Denver on the "Texas Zephyr" back in the early '60's, and the train was pulled by E-5's--I specifically remember the fluting. I also remember the 'B' unit having a down-slope on the end to match the shorter height of the Texas Zephyr cars, which at the time appeared to be a semi-unit train. Am I correct in this? That's certainly the way I remember the train. This would have been about 1964 or so.
Tom ... Sorry for late reply. I did not get back to this thread until now. E5 B units were same height at each end. The TZ used the former Denver Zephyr train set when the DZ was re-equipped. The first car in the articulated trainset had a higher roof at the locomotive end. This car sloped downward about 20' from the locomotive end. ... PS.. Tom, feel free to say "Hi" to diners at Elliots.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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A couple of years ago Athearn came out with an EL SD45 in their Ready-to-Roll series. I have up a pair from back then.