Your dream model?

[Anonymous]

Mine personally would be a brass Southern Pacific Daylight GS-4 4-8-4.  Ohhh the dreams I've had with that.  Even better would be a live steam of it.  Ahh!  What is your dream model?

[canazar]

Dream model eh?   Well, guess it would have to be a SD70Ace or 70-2 that has sound and DCC, and was cheap enough to afford for a guy on a cheap budget.  Say under 150 bucks.....    You said dream right?

 

Followed by a T-1 PRR or another Cab Forward.   I really dig both of those engines.   Beauty and the Beast in my mind

[Dave Vollmer]

An N scale PRR I1sa 2-10-0 with DCC and sound.  Is Precision Craft Models listening?

[maandg]

Either Paris Hilton or Adrienne Curry! 

[jsoderq]

Rebecca Romjin

[reklein]

OFF TOPIC although not unpleasant I might add. Dream models have changed over the years currently it would be some acreage and a crew of landscapers to build a ten to fifteen acre FARM layout using ride on trains. Also hire TK to come and set up some operating schedules . I'd like to simulate the Montana Rail Link route from Sand Point to Missoula with operating industries along the way. A small passenger train would operate sos I could charge for rides to help offset  the salaries of the......................

[dave hikel]

Dream Model...

The Great Northern between Seattle and Spokane in HO scale (it would only be 4.2 real mile), and W-1, Y-1, and Z-1 electrics to help the R-2's over the pass.

[MisterBeasley]

At night, for maybe 30 years or so, I would dream of subways.  Oddly, the dreams usually involved maintenance-of-way cars down in the tunnels, but ever since I was a boy I wanted a set of subway trains.  When I started researching model trains again just under two years ago, I discovered that Life-Like had built my dream train - a set of R-17 subway cars, 4 in all, for a reasonable price.  I bought them, even though I didn't even have a loop of track to run them on.

Since then, I've been working on my railroad, which includes a subway.  I've got full scenery in the tunnels, and two underground stations.  I put a micro video camera in the front of the train, so I can see what's happening even though most of the trackwork is invisible from the top of the layout.

Those dreams have stopped.  But, now I have the real thing.

[Anonymous]

I generally stay away from "wish lists" but I think I'll go with this one.

I would like to model the "transition" era but I have to admit a certain disappointment in the lugging power of N-Scale steam locomotives.  I do suppose that if I go to the "transition" era I'll just have to learn to live with 30 car trains.

Everyone is currently drooling all over Uncle Irv's brand new Challenger - you know, the one with the Onion Specific shield upside down on the smokebox door - that ought to turn this one very quickly into a non-collectible item.  Anyway, I don't model Onion Specific but this "type" of locomotive would fit into my freelanced Appalachian Crossing scheme; I could - and would - get rid of that upside-down shield in mighty short order.  It would complement my other "wishes", an affordable 2-6-6-6 Allegheny and/or a 2-8-8-4 Yellowstone.  The latter does pose a slight complication but the B&O EM-1 strikes the right generic profile.  I could probably build a "generic" looking boiler to fit on an Espee AC-9.  I think the AC-9 was one of the most beautiful locomotives which has ever been designed and built and it is one of my two "dream" engines but you have to admit, its design is very corporate-specific.  I suppose I could rationalize and buy a couple from SP during Big Brawl Two.

In non-articulates I would like to see a 2-10-4, something in line with a C&O T-1.  Santa Fe engines, - my second "dream" engine - unfortunately, look too much like Santa Fe engines.  (Gads!  that's going to pull the chain on Santa Fe modelers.)  I need a Northern but GS-4s are too corporate specific; I also don't want whoppin' 80 inch drivers - I've got a mountain railroad to run, remember.  Rock Island R-67B's strike a very handsome pose but I am definitely whistling into the wind on that one - 74 inch drivers are hard to come by.  I could settle for an Espee GS-1 or -2 or even a "war-baby" GS-6, skyline casing and all - after all, Western Pacific, and, I believe, somebody else did.

End of (major) "wish list"!    

[tomikawaTT]

I generally stay away from "wish lists" but I think I'll go with this one.

Everyone is currently drooling all over Uncle Irv's brand new Challenger - you know, the one with the Onion Specific shield upside down on the smokebox door - that ought to turn this one very quickly into a non-collectible item.  Anyway, I don't model Onion Specific but this "type" of locomotive would fit into my freelanced Appalachian Crossing scheme; I could - and would - get rid of that upside-down shield in mighty short order.   

R.T.

Replace the 'YUPPEE' twin stack with a BIG single chimney and you'd have a Clinchfield challenger.  Can't get much more "Appalachian crossing" than that.  I would have loved to have seen one on the eastern approach to the summit tunnel under what is now the Blue Ridge Parkway in NC.

My own wish list includes (but is not limited to) an affordable HOj model of an E10 class 2-10-4T, the heaviest (weight on drivers) steam loco ever run in Japan.  There were only five prototypes built, all used in pusher service, the only modern JNR locos without elephant ear smoke lifters.

Chuck

[Milwhiawatha]

Milwaukee Road Hiawatha Steam in plastic ith accurate details and all the sets of the Milwaukee Road Passanger cars in plastic specially the skytop. One can dream and I do..

[West Coast S]

An affordable kit or RTR SP M class or C class in S scale, since no one is rising to the occasion, guess i'll have to manfacture my own kits in the manner of the Old Roundhouse line, with updates and modifications of course....

Dave

[andrechapelon]

Either Paris Hilton or Adrienne Curry! 

Cliff, I hear both will be available in plastic shortly.................complete with a foot pump to inflate them.

You've heard of Walthers Cornerstone Built-up line, haven't you? This is the new Blow-up line .

Andre

 

[ShadowNix]

Milwaukee Road Hiawatha, F7 Hudson, with DCC sound   ...

I could "handle" the Atlantic version too, if I must...

 

Brian

[chessiecat]

A I-12 B&O wagon top caboose in plastic would really make my day!  Jim

[myred02]

Hmmm... got it!

I would like to see Tower 55 make a two-pack of locomotives, one being an ES44DC and the other being an SD70ACe. They would be available in many road names, with or without sound, and would cost $100 for the non-sound set and $200 for the sound-equipped set.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzz......... Wha? Aww... you woke me up from the best dream of my life!

-Brandon

[conagher]

Monongahela GE Super 7s

[skerber]

NS High Nose SD-40-2 made by Kato in HO scale with sound that works in DC and priced under $150.00.

Steve

 

[ShadowNix]

Either Paris Hilton or Adrienne Curry! 

Cliff, I hear both will be available in plastic shortly.................complete with a foot pump to inflate them.

You've heard of Walthers Cornerstone Built-up line, haven't you? This is the new Blow-up line .

Andre

 

Actually, they are likely already part plastic already, with their B*#@ and lip jobs !  Hehehehe!

 

Brian

[Tommy0218]

I have 2 dream models

 Roundhouse 2-6-2 (SR & RL) live steam and a

 Micro-Metakit Saxonian class IV Mallet in black (HO)

[kursinsky]

A quality GP15-1 w/ good sound (ie no MRC).

[SOU Fan]

NS High Nose SD-40-2 made by Kato in HO scale with sound that works in DC and priced under $150.00.

Steve

 

Southern, and were talking.

[Hoople]

Me:

 

A die cast big boy with real recordings from it and DCC for $200.

And a UP 4-12-2 in die cast with real recordings of sound and DCC that will handle 22" radius. for $170.

[wjstix]

I could go for one of the yellow/green streamlined 4-6-2's the CNW used on the "Minnesota 400", although a nice GN 0-8 class 2-8-2 would be great...funny, given how popular Great Northern seems to be, that manufacturers shy away from making accurate models of their steam engines. (Precision Craft's upcoming 4-8-4 is a nice change from this !!)

[Texas Zepher]

Milwaukee Road Hiawatha Steam in plastic ith accurate details and all the sets of the Milwaukee Road Passanger cars in plastic specially the skytop. One can dream and I do.

I am pretty certain these will show up pretty soon.  Many people would like a set of these (even those like me who don't model Milwalkee).  I am guessing almost as many as purchased the Walthers Super Chief, and BLI California Zephyr.

[CP5415]

A plastic version of Canadian Pacific's 4-8-4 or 2816

Gordon

[Don Z]

It's a sick dream, I know....but, I'd love to see Athearn Genesis, Broadway Limited or Tower 55 produce......

Don Z.

[reklein]

Speaking of Milwaukee a more realistic dream is about a production plastic "Little Joe".

[Bill H.]

B&O S1a  in 1 1/2 scale, live steam.

[Milwhiawatha]

A plastic little joe would be great to. The Passanger Cars and a Little Joe now that would be great. With a better plastic Hiawatha.