Let me add the "Pooch" to the list
Mine doesn't move.......it's at the station!!!
Kingofweathering You guys are all listing those UNREALISTIC wishes and the typical oddball engines.
You guys are all listing those UNREALISTIC wishes and the typical oddball engines.
Unrealistic or not - the question posed by the OP is still "are there any locomotive models no longer produced you would like to see brought back or ones never offered in say HO, N and O scales you would love to see be made?" Let folks answer it how they want to - whether it agrees with your pencil or not.
Tom
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Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
Some of us do not model the Union Pacific. This means if we want to model REALISTICALLY, we use age appropriate motive power.
In my case, SD 60Ms are the newest engine purchased by the SOO. Or if you model the NYC, perhaps a GP 40.
Some have continued on with their chosen rail road as if they are still in business. Because few, if any fantasy engines are now being issued, custom painting is needed if you want a SD 70 in SOO or NYC.
Jim
Just FYI I have custom painted both an SD90 and Dash 8-40cw in BN colors, as well as a light Mtn 4-8-2 in NP. if anything none of these locos are to prototype.
if the major manufacturers are posting and/or reading here they can read this and then plan something that will ultimately make them lots of money because they will be providing RTR models that haven't been manufactured.
SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.
http://www.youtube.com/user/SGTDUPREY?feature=guide
Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
For an "east coaster", UP Turbines and Centennials are oddballs, but they were made!
Frankly myself, I'd like to see a 65 ton center cab Whitcomb, which served industrial sites, short lines, and were exported for the rebuilding of Europe after WWII.
Karl
NCE über alles!
N scale Alco S eries switchers and GE U boats. These are missing from N scale
Didn't Athearn make the GP40X?
I'd love to see an SDP40F that I road behind in 1976 on the San Francisco Zephyr!
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
Some are indeed somewhat unrealistic, but the industry has discovered that there is a market for the less common prototypes. For example, Bowser produced the C630M, a Canadian only variant of the Alco version that sold new to only three roads. They quickly vanished from store shelves. I understand the UP turbines, definitely oddballs, have also sold well. The challenge with making yet another F7 or GP9 is to make it so absolutely perfect that folks will toss their older models and actually upgrade.
Some of us have been trying to figure out how to kitbash or scratchbuild examples needed for our model operation, knowing the limitations of our skill or time levels. And the oddballs will attract attention from the collectors.
John
A Davenport 25 ton diesel-mechanical industrial switcher.
BerkshireSteam GP40X althougth I think I heard a rumor this is being made in HO
GP40X althougth I think I heard a rumor this is being made in HO
Athearn has produced the GP40X in their RTR line using upgraded RPP shells and truck sideframes. A very nice model indeed, especiall the fully-equipped SP version.
Bill
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig"
I'd just be satisfied with an unnumbered Phase V P42.
Really I'd love if every locomotive came un-numbered and with a sheet of numbers, like Walthers Superliners do.
One that has been largely ignored is the low hood GP7's and GP9's Proto 2K came close with the GP18's but by then the low nose had a sloping top. Most if not all low nosed GP7's and 9's had a flat top to the nose, rounded cab with matching rounded headlight/numberboard housing. Word is that Athearn will eventualy do the low nose rebuit units GP7u, GP9u and the Paducah rebuilt units with the 4 stacks, ox yoke Horst air intake and low nose eventualy. Walthers does a low nose, but it uses the old "fat body" Cox tooling which is very similar to the old Athearn blue box GP9. Bachmann, Atlas are you listening?????? You both have an excellent GP7/9 on the market in the high hood/as built configuration. Lets see the low nose along with some modern road names, short lines and regionals. Plenty of old first generation diesels still earning a living. NYS&W's 3 GP18's found a new home and are back at work. Next up is a C430 with Hi-Ad trucks, good one for Stewart/Bowser or Atlas again. New Haven FL9's are baddly needed in HO scale plastic for the east coast modelers, and while not a diesel, some new Traction models such as typical interurbans that run well and are non brass. Mike
Silly NT's, I have Asperger's Syndrome
rdgk1se3019I would like to see a rerun of HO scale GP35`s.
Dennis, Athearn is releasing some more roadnames in their Ready to Roll line, including Undecorated.....
Randy Vos
"Ever have one of those days where you couldn't hit the ground with your hat??" - Waylon Jennings
"May the Lord take a liking to you and blow you up, real good" - SCTV
only one diesel that I would buy is the Kato SD40-2 in Santa Fe. I have a large number, would like a few more, but none to be had The Mid production one. According to all the phone calls and emails I have sent, they are Gone! Nada! So I won't be buying any new diesels as there is nothing else I want or need. Yes I know they already did them, and I also have found that none are in any of the hobby shops I have called, written, visited. Otherwise I have what I want/need/covet in the way of diesels. Kato can eat the BNSF ones, I just want blue and yellow.
Bob
gsrrman N scale Alco S eries switchers and GE U boats. These are missing from N scale
General Electric is decently represented in N scale, but of course it could always be better.
On a side note, I just snatched up a Kato SD40-2 mid production for free. Long short hood and black/orange BNSF paint. Not sure if I will keep the Kato decoder in it. It needs a little work, but nothing I wouldn't enjoy doing :)
gsrrmanN scale Alco S eries switchers and GE U boats. These are missing from N scale
As noted, N scale S-2 from Atlas is announced. N scale S-4 from Bachmann should ship soon and many retailers are taking pre-orders.
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FWIW, I wrote Kato an email about a year ago asking them to produce this exact model in HO. I did it after I produced my own flared radiator unit from a Kato undecorated sd70mac. I am sure they get hundreds of such requests a year and as a result I never heard anything. Seems it would be relatively easy to tool since they arent all that different from the wide radiators of the sd80/90 mac and the components they have for their sd70macs.
I hope all your fantasy models get built guys.
Boxcab diesel in S.
Enjoy
Paul
I hope that some day Bachmann will release a Pacific that's not a K4. I specify Bachmann since I know it would be a decent looking loco and not cost $300. To me it was the most widely used steam that is underrepresented in the hobby today.
Sorry, I just realized the question was about diesels. I read the whole thread but apparently didn't read the original post or title!
I would like to see atlas re-run the N Scale BN/BNSF SD60M's with Ditchlights and Kato needs to do more SD40-2's mid-production with new road names like IC in the Deathstar scheme. If nothing else someone needs to make a decent GP50 in N Scale with ditchlights or beacons.
-Kade
A Baldwin center cab, in Pennsy livery, of course.
Glad to see the Walthers SW1 back; need it in PRR livery.
Jerry Britton
Modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad's Middle Division in the early 1950s
http://pennsyrr.com
How about an HO scale Cooper-Bessemer in Erie black and yellow?
rdgk1se3019. Maybe some of the smaller builders smaller "critters".......Witcomb center cab switchers, Porter 4 wheel loco`s.....and the like.
Maybe some of the smaller builders smaller "critters".......Witcomb center cab switchers, Porter 4 wheel loco`s.....and the like.
I agree with Dennis. Those old Whitcomb center-cabs look great in industrial settings. Quite a few were made for the military in WWII and then were sold to a variety of short lines or industries. They just look "gritty" before they even get weathered. Here's a 65-ton, built in 1944, that was on the Maryland Midland:
A Lima or Baldwin center cab transfer loco would be fantastic!
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/prr8947.jpg
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/tr_prr8113.jpg
Pete
I pray every day I break even, Cause I can really use the money!
I started with nothing and still have most of it left!
Hi!
I would love to see some new "DCC ready" Alco RS / RSD locos for for the Santa Fe, in zebra stripe livery.
ENJOY !
Mobilman44
Living in southeast Texas, formerly modeling the "postwar" Santa Fe and Illinois Central
these mid cab locos are so exotic, it's interesting.
Some more diesel locomotives i would love to see produced in HO scale by say Walthers would be Union Pacific SW10 switcher, Illinois Central SW13 and GP8 and GP10 switchers and Whitcomb 44 tonner. I know Bachmann has their GE 44 tonner model, but the Whitcomb 44 tonner had a look quite different from the GE version.
caboose63Illinois Central SW13 and GP8 and GP10
Intermountain just announced the GP10...
http://www.modelrailroadnews.com/PDF/Trainfest_2012_IMR_GP10.pdf
Personally I'm hoping for parts on this one, just because I hate the nose chopping part of building Some BN's units. putty has not been kind to me...
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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.
Although it's been done in brass, I'd love to see a plastic E1:
Matt from Anaheim, CA and Bayfield, COClick Here for my model train photo website