Some interesting offerings...
http://www.broadway-limited2.com/productguide2015/html5/index.html?page=1
I was just thinking about the Commodore Vanderbilt streamlined Hudson and... here it is!
The cryogenic tank car looks pretty neat,
AND for the Pennsy Passenger modelers—A decent P-70 coach! Finally!!
A little P-70 history here:
http://pennsyrr.com/index.php/passenger/94-operations/passenger/469-the-p70-in-the-pennsy-coach-fleet
Just thought I'd pass this along for anyone interested.
Happy Modeling, Ed
I like what I see!! Lots of heavier all-diecast bodies and frames in some steamers such as the newly tooled PRR M1 4-8-2, and after a seven year (?) absence, BLI has their own Big Boy again. Many items of rolling stock in the catalog. It will be interesting to see how quickly they can bring them all to market in the next 18 months or so.
selector It will be interesting to see how quickly they can bring them all to market in the next 18 months or so.
Yes, BLI has a hit-or-miss reputation in this department. We all know of certain models that seemed to take forever to hit the streets (Baldwin RF-16s for example) but overall, I think we modelers have benefited from the efforts of everyone at BLI.
Ed
gmpullman Some interesting offerings... I was just thinking about the Commodore Vanderbilt streamlined Hudson and... here it is! The cryogenic tank car looks pretty neat, AND for the Pennsy Passenger modelers—A decent P-70 coach! Finally!!
Don't forget the [previously announced] PRR L1 2-8-2.
From the photo, and description, it appears that BLI will be doing the P70 in two versons, the "hot" as built original, and the Ice Air Conditioned P70R, from the 1930s. From what I can tell, these versions were all but gone by 1962. It would have been nice if they built the FB and later subclasses which dominated from 1948 to the end of the Penn Central era, or the streamlined GR or KR versions.
Although BLI's tooling will no doubt far exceed the quality of either Bachmann version, or the old ECW kits. they are in essence duplicating what Bachmann did, instead of choosing the never mass produced modern versions.
Still, I will probably buy a 4 pack of air conditioned P70s to run behind my Bowser Baldwin RS12s.
That Plymouth 35 ton switcher interests me. My reader doesn't work on this particular web so cam amybody tell me more about the loco? eg what era was it built, is it DCC etc?
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Bruce in the Peg
Bruce,
Here is a link to BLI's site without the flip-magazine format.
http://www.broadway-limited.com/plymouthswitcherho.aspx
Hope that works for you, Ed
I can't say that I'm enthused by their bundling the ACF Type 27 chlorine tank cars only in four packs, as much as I'd like a couple. It makes it a hassle to get just one or two.
There's an intriguing hint in the product listing for the P70 coaches. When, on page 52, they list the locomotives that prototypically can be used to pull the coaches, all of the locomotives they list are ones that BLI has already produced. Except for one very interesting Pennsy-specific diesel...
-Fritz Milhaupt, Publications Editor, Pere Marquette Historical Society, Inc.http://www.pmhistsoc.org
fmilhauptThere's an intriguing hint in the product listing for the P70 coaches. When, on page 52, they list the locomotives that prototypically can be used to pull the coaches, all of the locomotives they list are ones that BLI has already produced. Except for one very interesting Pennsy-specific diesel...
Hoo hah! I sort of got the same impression. That would be very well received within the PRR Community.
I really want the big subwoofer.
I wonder if standalone decoders will be available to work with the sub or do you just have to buy BLI engines exclusively.
Derek
fmilhauptI can't say that I'm enthused by their bundling the ACF Type 27 chlorine tank cars only in four packs, as much as I'd like a couple.
Maybe— if you hold out, you can find a seller that has split them up. If I'm not mistaken, MB Klein was selling individual H-32 covered hoppers while they lasted.
When you said Plymouth, this was the first thing that came to mind..
Marlon
See pictures of the Clinton-Golden Valley RR
An interesting observation:
The Milwaukee S-3 4-8-4 follows the same design as the Rock Island R-67 and the D&H K-62. It would theoretically be possible for BLI to offer those versions, much the same as they did with the PRR J1 and C&O T-1 2-10-4's. If they don't offer those variations, an enterprising modeler could do the conversion himself, although a new tender or tender body would be needed.
The same could be said of the T&P 2-10-4, which was very similar to the Chicago Great Western's 2-10-4's.
's all good.
Tom