Any locomotive or rolling stock and scheme that hasn't been produced that you would like to see.

[Bayfield Transfer Railway]

wjstix

I'd love to see the Atlas HO FM H-24-66 Trainmaster decorated for C&NW and Milwaukee Road. Neither railroad owned a Trainmaster, but they both had H-16-66 "Baby Trainmasters" that were almost identical to the Trainmaster...they used the same body parts, windows, cab etc. but the H-16-66 was about 3.5 ft shorter.

 

 

Athearn used to make both of those.

But I don't want a substitute, I want the H-1666.  Stewart/Bowser makes the C-628 High Hood of which only 30 existed and were used by only two roads; why not the H-1666!

 

[Bayfield Transfer Railway]

bnsffan

Bowser has announced a h0 scale model of the Baldwin.

http://www.bowser-trains.com/new/rsswitcher.html

 

Cornelius.

 

 

 

Oooooh, all I have to do is paint over the road name and I can have my Nicollet Badger Northern RS-12!

 

[espee3004]

HO scale Denver and Salt Lake 2-6-6-0

 

[angelob6660]

I would like to see Amtrak SDP40F, (Phase I-III) P30CH, (Phase II-III)

[doctorwayne]

So far, many of the requests are for particular paint jobs on existing models.  My first thought would be to do your own repaint of one that's available, although I do realise that this may be beyond the skills of some.  Another problem might be finding suitable lettering, but I think that Microscale will produce the lettering if enough people request it. 

As for factory-painted models, has anybody ever tried contacting the appropriate company with their suggestion?  One modeller may not get much in the way of results, but if enough people ask, there's more of a chance.  Most companies would prefer the cheaper option of offering an existing model in another paint scheme, as opposed to tooling-up for a totally new locomotive.

Wayne

[Matt Florack]

All the following in HO scale, please!

--Atlas B36-7s (Conrail and CSX YN2)

--Atlas C39-8s (Conrail and Norfolk Southern)

--More Athearn ES44s (more than just early BNSF, UP, or CP versions, but I'd especially like YN3 CSX ES44DCs)

--Athearn needs to do a Genesis-series GE Dash-9 model; I'd love to have completely accurate BNSF, CSX, and NS Dash-9s...

[CAZEPHYR]

If you are talking about the GS4 4449, it has been done in Daylight and in the Bicentennial colors in G or 1/32 scale.  I have the Daylight version and it is nice. I believe they were available by Accracraft also, but much more expensive.  It does take up a lot of room on the shelf.    The sound is good and it has the whistle of the 4449 as it sounded from 1975 to a year or so ago. 

CZ

 

[ACY Tom]

One that has never been done, except as brass models many years ago:

Fairbanks Morse H20-44 end-cab road switcher, used by U.P., NYC, PRR and others

 

[CJtrainguy]

I'm waiting for Walthers to bring out HO Viewliners in the IVb scheme, with interiors of course.

Also waiting for someone (Walthers or Kato) to bring out the current Metra gallery cars built by Nippon-Sharyo in HO. http://www.nipponsharyousa.com

And I'd love to see an HO rendition of the Hawkeye Express. Since the real cars are old Metra cars, Walthers or Kato could just use their existing models and decorate them accordingly. The Hawkeye Express train doesn't just see service for football games in Iowa City, but is used at other times during the year for charter runs by owner Iowa Northern. Of course with a F40PH in the heritage Rock Island scheme.

http://www.iowanorthern.com/hawkeye/

Finally, as it's being painted in Kansas City, of course an HO model of Iowa Interstate 516 in Rock Island heritage scheme.

 

[Marc_Magnus]

All the things I wish made a long list so I hope to see a rerun of the Nscale Walthers Life Like Proto Heritage 0-8-0, the Y3 2-8-8-2.

Hope also to see one day a N&W class A, a a good running Yb5 or YB6 to replace the old fashionned Rivarossi Nscale model.

Also for kitbasher, the Micro Ace mallet 0-6-6-0

And more vehicules of the 30's in Nscale

 

[NevinW]

I'd love to see practically anything that is from the 1900-1920 era.  More slide valve steam locomotives would be great.  Especially a 2-8-0 similar to the Bachmann Spectrum 4-6-0.  

[wjstix]

I'd love to see the Atlas HO FM H-24-66 Trainmaster decorated for C&NW and Milwaukee Road. Neither railroad owned a Trainmaster, but they both had H-16-66 "Baby Trainmasters" that were almost identical to the Trainmaster...they used the same body parts, windows, cab etc. but the H-16-66 was about 3.5 ft shorter.

[gmpullman]

I second Antonio's vote for Amtrak SDP-40Fs and I'd like to add a request for a Pennsy E-44 electric.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRR_E44

Bachmann did an E-33 but there's room for improvement there...

Good old threads never die... Ed

 

[Burlington Northern #24]

Arnold's still new in the N scale market, but I'd love to see them do things the other big N scale companies won't. Maybe Pennsylvania steam and SP&S Alco Centuries may be closer than we think. I hope.

[blabride]

A Walthers quality HO 1950 MKT/Frisco Texas Special. They could do MKT and Frisco E8's to pull it.

[GP-9_Man11786]

What do I want to see produced? Two words, Pennsy Steam. N scale needs a decent K4, I1s, H10s. 

But speaking of rumors, a friend of mine was at the Big E in Amhearst this past weekend, told Baxhmann that N Scale needed a decent K4. She was told to "watch their announcments."

Heck, I'd settle for a revival of the Minitrix K4, albeit with a better mechanism.

[NP2626]

There was a rumor here at the forums that the next passenger train to be offered by Wathers was going to be the Northern Pacific North Coast Limited in the Lowey Scheme.  I guess I would ove to see this, even though I wouldn't be spending that kind of money on a train.  

It certainly would show one of the most beautiful trains to you guys.  

[JWhite]

Thanks Wayne, I will try that.  I'm finishing up 3 Accurail SS cars now.  Next project is a MONX (Monsanto Chemical) 4000 gallon Type 30 tank car.  I've got an old LifeLike 1890s type tank car that's going to donate the small tank and an old Type 30 frame to cut down. 

 

After that I will find a couple door and half prototypes to try your technique out.

 

Thanks for your help.

 

Jeff

[doctorwayne]

It's good to know that others are doing similar modifications.
Other than the Standard Car Company door used on the Wabash car, the others are regular 6' or 7' doors with segments removed.  For Creco and Superior panel-type doors, I usually remove the raised portion along both sides, then cut equal-sized portions from both remaining edges.  The raised portions are then re-attached using solvent-type cement, rendering the joints almost invisible.  If you're not making operable doors, you could plug the existing door openings in the car, then cement the doors directly to that.
For Youngstown doors, such as are used with most Athearn BB boxcars, the procedure is pretty much the same, although if you're putting them back onto an Athearn car on which you've modified the door tracks to be more prototypical (overlapping portion of the top track removed and the lower track removed completely and a new one built just below what would be the normal floor-height of the car), then the doors will also need to be lengthened.  You'll need donour Athearn doors for this - I picked up a bunch of them at my LHS .  Simply segment the stock doors horizontally at an appropriate spot, then choose the desired portion of the donour door, cutting it free and then cementing it between the two parts of the original door.  The Espee automobile car in my previous post was modified in this manner.
For Tichy wood doors, I prefer to cut them vertically into three segments, avoiding the door hardware.  An equal number of boards are removed from each side of the centrepoint, then the remaining portions re-assembled.
Tichy Youngstown doors can often be used on Athearn and train Miniature cars with little or no modification. 
These modifications are an easy way to create some unique cars.

Wayne

 

[JWhite]

doctorwayne,

Your work has inspired me in the past to rework my accurail and other cars.  I've gotten quite adept at removing cast on detail and replacing it.  Are you making the 4 foot doors by cutting a section out of a larger door then gluing the right and left ends of the door together?

[bnsffan]

Bowser has announced a h0 scale model of the Baldwin.

http://www.bowser-trains.com/new/rsswitcher.html

 

Cornelius.

 

[doctorwayne]

JWhite

Steam and transition era modelers need 40 and 50 foot door and a half box cars. I know there are resin kits out there, but these cars numbered in the 10s of thousands and a reasonably priced plastic kit (think Accurail) would be great.

Accurail door-and-a-half (Standard Car Company half-door):

Train Miniature door-and-a-half (modified TM doors):

Another TM (modified Tichy doors)

...and another (Red Caboose doors):

It's even easier to create doubledoor cars for those eras:

Train Miniature (modified Athearn doors):

Another TM (Bowser doors):

Accurail doubledoor (not sure about the second door - maybe McKean):

I don't have any 50' door-and-a-half cars, but lots of doubledoor ones, all pretty-much stock, like these from Walthers:

...and Model die Casting:

...and Athearn (somewhat modified):

Both Athearn and Walthers (Proto) offer 50' single door cars which could easily be made into door-and-a-half cars.

Wayne

[JWhite]

Steam and transition era modelers need 40 and 50 foot door and a half box cars.  I know there are resin kits out there, but these cars numbered in the 10s of thousands and a reasonably priced plastic kit (think Accurail) would be great.

 

I love building resin kits, but it gets very expensive to build a large roster that way.

[Burlington Northern #24]

Oh boy one of my threads got revived, Arnold's making an SW1 I'll have to pass on that.

Here's to hoping N scale will see more of the C424/425/636/415's being made.

[DSchmitt]

modelinaround

If you go to the 3D printing site, shapeways.com, someone is making an N-scale SW1shell, but they haven't decided what to power it with yet. I would try the Tomytec or Kato powered chassis. It is not for sale yet.

 

 

Arnold has announced a N scale SW1. 

http://www.aat-net.de/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=31_67987_68733  

Pre-order from this site in Germany.  119.9 Euro is currently about $152 US. Anticipated delivery 11/2015

Haven't seen an anouncemet from an US dealer yet.

[De Luxe]

I think the Nacionales de Mexico QR-1 4-8-4 Niagara would be very welcomed not only by Mexicans but also by many other steam or 4-8-4 fans as well, since they were the last 4-8-4´s on the North American continent in use.

[AntonioFP45]

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=528424

http://www.trainweb.org/willstrainart/Train_Art_files/Other_Railroads/amtsdp40fiic.gif

 

[Kyle]

KYLE GP40s equipped with safety equipment for modern era (2000+)

KYLE SW1000 #1125

RNCX* F59PHs

RNCX* GP40P-2 #1792 City of Raleigh

 

Even though KYLE SD40-2s were never painted in Kyle Blue.  I would like a few SD40-2s painted like the KYLE GP40s. 

All of these locomotives are manufactured today, so eventually I will get undecorated locomotives, and paint them.

 

*RNCX is the reporting mark for the North Carolina Department of Transportation.

[modelinaround]

If you go to the 3D printing site, shapeways.com, someone is making an N-scale SW1shell, but they haven't decided what to power it with yet. I would try the Tomytec or Kato powered chassis. It is not for sale yet.