richhotrain I'd like to see Atlas produce flex track. Rich
I'd like to see Atlas produce flex track.
Rich
I was waiting for this to come up, thanks Rich!!
Karl
NCE über alles!
locoi1sa Sorry to get your hopes up. Pete
Sorry to get your hopes up.
Pete
Pete,No worries..
I got this crazy idea of doing a Cincinnati Union Terminal Lima and SW8 switchers.The CUT did the switching chores at Cincinnati Union Station.
BTW.I did a web search yesterday and came up with the real Eddystone locomotive works.Interesting find.
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
How about weights with removable sections for decoder installations? If you want to add a decoder, just remove the section, no milling nrcessary. If you want more weight, just leave it in place.
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_ALEdDUB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
http://s73.photobucket.com/user/steemtrayn/media/MovingcoalontheDCM.mp4.html?sort=3&o=27
"JaBear"P.S. I can't find the article picturing a kit bashed 0-2-0 steam loco.
Bear.
Its right after the 0-5-0 switcher article. The April issue of space and rail star date 3039. The same issue with the article about using a transporter to scale operators for brakeman duties.
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!
BRAKIE locoi1sa Larry. Didn't Eddystone locomotive works come out with a Lima switcher in plastic? Pete Pete,That's news to me. Do they have a web page?
locoi1sa Larry. Didn't Eddystone locomotive works come out with a Lima switcher in plastic? Pete
Larry.
Didn't Eddystone locomotive works come out with a Lima switcher in plastic?
Pete,That's news to me.
Do they have a web page?
They used too but it seems to be dead. Perhaps they had gone out of business. I think they had the resin Lima switcher shells that fit on someone else s chassis. Here is the link I had bookmarked and I did a google search too and got nothing.
http://www.eddystonelocomotives.com/
ACY "Many --- probably most --- of the suggestions will go unanswered by the manufacturers. But if we get a positive response from a few, and get some new and/or better products on the hobby shop shelves and on our layouts, then it will have been worthwhile. It can't hurt to put a bug in a manufacturer's ear."
Gidday Tom, sounds very much like "Whistling Dixie" to me.
However you do have a point.
Back in the May 1955 Model Railroader, Mr. Roger.R.Thomson was asking for more plastic structural shapes, and in Feb 1960, E.Morrell was asking the manufacturers for nickel silver track , "........and sold it at a reasonable price. I'm sure they'd have a shock when they saw how fast it was being bought up. I'll wager that in 3 years, every HO railroad in the country would roll on nickel silver."
Flywheel drive was discussed back in the Nov 1945, June 1951, Oct 1961 and Dec 1969 Model Railroader,s, all scratch built, but again it paid off when Athearn produced their flywheel drive in 1973, so "Good things do come to those that wait".
I know that there will be more examples as I only had a very cursory look but there are also the "Someone should make a Erehwon & Nor Nor Eastern 0-2-0 as fitted out by their workshops , 32nd Jan 19..." examples,usually written in an indignant , almost self righteous manner, At least no one on this thread has adopted that attitude.
peahrens I just started last year, so may have missed some prior releases of these.
To my mind Paul makes a valid point. Now I know that the pros and cons of prepurchasing and limited runs have been, and will continue to be discussed ad nausem, and yes there is ebay, but I think that the manufacturers are missing the train, regarding new comers to the hobby, seeing Product discontinued in various catalogs can be some what discouraging.
If I was to join into a thread like this then a Bachmann ????? DCC ready Whitcomb 65 tonner would be nice.
Cheers, the Bear.
P.S. I can't find the article picturing a kit bashed 0-2-0 steam loco.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
I would love to more locomotives with Ditch light right from the factory and more modern day figures.
~ Tim .
To see photos of my HO scale / 1/64 scale layout and diorama photos base in the present day . http://www.flickr.com/photos/icr140/
Right now, I'd settle for the Amtrak gaps like Viewliners and Heritage diners and baggage. You can get all the Superliners and Amfleets you can handle, but good luck making a whole train!
Denver and Salt Lake 2-6-6-0
http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15330coll22/id/43313
http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15330coll22/id/43351/rec/373
http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15330coll22/id/43484/rec/448
http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15330coll22/id/43506/rec/470
I'm hoping BLI or MTH does a true Erie Berkshire also the 0-8-8-0 Erie camelback that MTH does in O scale but in HO
I'm thinking Bachmann may do an older generic version of a Mikado and/or Pacific with the higher domes and maybe an Elesco feedwater heater. Teming them up depending on road name with one of their Vanderbilt tenders would do it for me.
My $.02
Mark
Joe,
I was speaking of the NYC 4-8-2 L-4a Mohawks. BLI released them in 2009 and they were outfitted with a QSI sound decoder.
Tom
https://tstage9.wixsite.com/nyc-modeling
Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
EL Man:
Don't worry about displaying ignorance. There's no shame in not knowing something. Sometimes the correct answer is "I don't know". The only shame is in an unwillingness to learn.
An NW2 with all the weight milled out of it so you can do what you want inside. You could then fill it with weight if you wanted, add electronics or both to what you want. Basicly it is easier to add weight than take away.
tstage I'd like to see BLI do a 2nd run of the 4-8-2 Mohawks; this time with the Paragon2 decoders. I would love to double-head two of them on a friend's huge layout. Tom
I'd like to see BLI do a 2nd run of the 4-8-2 Mohawks; this time with the Paragon2 decoders. I would love to double-head two of them on a friend's huge layout.
I believe they have have. The M1?http://www.broadway-limited.com/2213prrm1a4-8-2unletteredunnumberedpost-1946versionparagon2sounddcdccho.aspx
Joe C
A couple observations:
The old Bachmann RDG I-10 can be found at swap meets now & then. I wonder whether a mechanism from the newer Bachmann 2-8-0 could be put under that old boiler. Driver size is the same or nearly so. Also, I wonder why RDG guys aren't clamoring for an I-9, which was much more numerous than the I-10.
The suggestion for a UP standard Harriman 2-8-2 is pretty interesting. It wouldn't be too much of a stretch to have an SP version to appeal to a broader market. Also, I'll bet there are other straight-boilered Mike prototypes that could be represented by this basic engine.
Glad to hear from the N gaugers. How about you guys in O? S?
GP-9_Man11786In fact Pennsy steam of any kind would be welcomed. Its so plentiful in HO but there's a total dearth in N.
I would imagine that's probably true for just about any N-scale road name.
I'd like to see a K4 pacific in N Scale. Our only options are the old Mintrix models or poorly-running brass. In fact Pennsy steam of any kind would be welcomed. Its so plentiful in HO but there's a total dearth in N.
Modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad in N Scale.
www.prr-nscale.blogspot.com
I would love to see the Conrail Executive Train passenger cars modeled accurately....The Proto2000 locos are fine, just need the cars now....
OK, I do UP and CB&Q so my list is biased towrds the West (and HO scale);
1) ACF/Rogers 34-foot 50-ton ballast cars. Used in the thousands on UP alone, but only done in brass years ago bt Challenger Imports. These cars were used by CNW, CB&Q, UP, GB&W and others? These aren't like other hoppers. Badly needed, never done in resin or plastic!
2) UP "Harriman" passenger cars in plastic. "Proper" models, not just rehash of the old MDC moldings.
3) UP O-50-1 tank cars. Not unlike what the Athearn car SHOULD be, but the UP cars had big 69" domes.
4) a reasonably priced UP "common standard" 2-8-2
5) a UP SD70M with flaired radiators in HO
I'll stop here and let everyone digest :-)
I know that some manufacturers have produced these, even of late, but I wouldn't mind seeing more GP38's and, although not in my era, the SD70. More road names in each too. I may be displaying my ignorance, so please ignore if I'M wrong.
Alton Junction
I'll second the call for a Fairbanks-Morse H-20-44. The NYC, IHB and Pittsburgh & West Virginia had them. With regards to 2-8-0 Consolidations, I've always liked the looks of the big 90-series ones that the Lehigh & Hudson had. Bachman used to make a model of a big Reading 2-8-0 but it had a cheap pancake motor and didn't run well. While I'm dreaming, how about a big 4-8-2 such as those owned by the B&m and L&HR? Or a Lackawanna or Lehigh Valley 4-8-4?
ACYThe Scenery car and the Horse car are available as kits from Bethlehem, I think. By the way, they were used by more roads than just the PRR. Without looking it up, I think NYC, SP, & maybe B&O.
ACY.
The New Haven also had some horse cars later converted to baggage cars. My former club was housed in a 1905 Bradley and sons former horse car.
Ed.
I concur about the stake pockets on the F22. I used a thick ACC that stayed workable for about ten minutes but thick enough to hold the parts on their own. I did mine like an assembly line with all the parts prepped and ready to instal. Paint, decals, trucks and couplers are left to do. Then I can start on the gun tube.
Pretty good.
Looks like there's a lot of interest in heavyweight head-end cars, and several votes for the Lima switcher. Yes, the Lima was available as a limited-run resin refit kit to go on the (Bowser, I think) mechanism, and they were available in brass a couple centuries ago. The Scenery car and the Horse car are available as kits from Bethlehem, I think. By the way, they were used by more roads than just the PRR. Without looking it up, I think NYC, SP, & maybe B&O.
The forthcoming PRR H10s could be offered with a different tender, as Locoi1sa suggested. Also, the only consistent spotting feature that distinguishes an H9s from an H10s is the "snifter" valve on the steam chest. Shouldn't be too hard to come up with an H9s variation in a future run.
Tstage mentioned the NYC H-10 Mike. A nice suggestion. Then there's the NYC H-5 Mike which boasted a roster of about 600 engines for the NYC and subsidiaries, plus the NKP's copies. Some of the NYC engines were sold to the AB&C (later part of the ACL), and at least one went to the HPT&D. So several road names could be offered. I'd buy either one --- H-5 or 10 --- for use at my NYC interchange, and maybe an extra H-5 for my NKP interchange.
Crhostler, the RDG K-1 has always been my favorite RDG loco. I don't model the road, but might buy one just because I like the big brute.
Still hoping someone will second my suggestion re. the F-M H20-44. Walthers had the PRR plan 4129 10 & 6 briefly, but just try to find one today. It'd be nice if they'd re-release that. And how about the STANDARD PRR flat end obs. and lounge cars that were used on several trains. The ones Walthers released were unique to the Broadway.
How about suggestions for other scales & gauges?
A Pennsy F22 flat car so I can ship my 16" Naval Gun Barrels (made by Laserkits)
AMB Laserkit Photo
I know Funaro & Camerlengo has resin kits, of which I have two, but me and the stake pockets and the acc are NOT having much fun trying to get those tiny stake pockets to stick! Brass F22s are occasionally found at about $175 a copy (currently, one at brasstrains.com!)
How about it Bowser? Please???
Ed
One thing that's hard to find are combination cars, cars that are say 1/4 baggage with the rest being seats. In Heavyweight cars, Bachmann makes one that's about 50-50, and the old AHM/Rivarossi cars were about 1/4 seats, 3/4 baggage. In lightweight, I don't know if anyone makes them?? They were quite common on top-of-the-line trains like NYC's Twentieth Century Limited, or C&NW's 400, but they're pretty rare in HO.
SD90MacH II with prototype sound.
Rail Whales
68' DODX 140 ton flat(I've scratch built one)
Richard
About 30 years ago or more Custom Brass had released a Reading K1sb (2-10-2) and I had always hoped that someone other than a brass maker would produce them. BLI has the Reading T-1, though unaffordable...they still make it. K1...yeah that would work for me.
Mark H.
Modeling in HO...Reading and Conrail together in an alternate history.