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 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.
Boxcab diesel in S.
Enjoy
Paul
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.
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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gsrrman N scale Alco S eries switchers and GE U boats. These are missing from N scale
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 :)
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
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
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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
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.
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"
A Davenport 25 ton diesel-mechanical industrial switcher.
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.
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
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
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!
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.
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Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
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
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.
Let me add the "Pooch" to the list
Mine doesn't move.......it's at the station!!!
alfadawg01 Appaently, Bowser has an HO C430 in the works. I'm stoked over that one. Other models to consider might be U25C, SD18, F59PH (not the rounded-off Athearn version, but the original version used by GO Transit), GP28.
Appaently, Bowser has an HO C430 in the works. I'm stoked over that one. Other models to consider might be U25C, SD18, F59PH (not the rounded-off Athearn version, but the original version used by GO Transit), GP28.
EMD
GP49
GP40TC there is that GO Transit again..
F40PHM-2
GE
SL110 industrial switcher,
as mentioned BQ23-7 Seaboard AND CSX paint
although only six were produced U30CG in Satna Fe yellow/blue and red/silver warbonnet schemes
Dash 8-40CM in BC Rail red-white-blue
Montreal Locomotive Works
M-420W theres that BCOL again and M-420R in Providence & Worchester
Morrison Knudsen
MK5000
I'd like some of the military locos like the MRS1
As a Minneapolis Northfield and Southern Ry. fan, how about a Baldwin VO-660 with the early round / oval radiator in front, a Baldwin centercab, and throw in a GM SD-39??
More realistically, I'd like to see Athearn use their Highliner shells to do a Genesis F9 decorated for the Erie Mining Co. railroad. These units remained in taconite service until the early 2000's.
(p.s. for some reason this PC only lets me puts pics at the top of the post, instead lower down in the body. O well....)
http://duluthsuperior.railfan.net/images/LTV_at_Salem_1999.jpg
Of course, of course U.P. U-50c number 5037, classic ! if you have to like diesel thingies, you have to love this monster.
Kingofweathering A lot of the people say the same old boring OLD engines...So what is REALLY needed in the hobby is a Kato, MTH or Intermountain SD70M with the Phase II cab and flared radiators. Forget the RARE FL9's, HH blah blah's, 2-4-10-12s, the F7's The "accurate" SD40-2, GP35 reruns, and other weird UNCOMMON old steamers and early diesels.
A lot of the people say the same old boring OLD engines...So what is REALLY needed in the hobby is a Kato, MTH or Intermountain SD70M with the Phase II cab and flared radiators. Forget the RARE FL9's, HH blah blah's, 2-4-10-12s, the F7's The "accurate" SD40-2, GP35 reruns, and other weird UNCOMMON old steamers and early diesels.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, weather. Some might even find an SD70-whatever pretty bland.
Kato to re-release the RS2, and some one to do a "genesis" like GE 44 ton switcher,in HO.mh
I want this released again.........................
N scale CF-7
N scale Baldwin road switcher
N scale some entry level (Bachmann/Life Like) BNSF, GP38/40 or u36b
N scale Virginian Triplex
N scale N&W 1218
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