What new loco would you like to see?

[Gandy Dancer]

Something - ANYTHING !!! - for Boston and Maine in HO scale by Atlas!

As I recall they have done several.   Case in point:

http://www.atlasrr.com/Images/HOLocomotives/hors3/8468.gif

http://www.atlasrr.com/Images/HOLocomotives/hogp7/8423.gif

http://www.atlasrr.com/Images/HOLocomotives/hos2s4/0507/B&M%201269.gif

[mikelhh]

Something - ANYTHING !!! - for Boston and Maine in HO scale by Atlas!

 Mike 

[SD60M]

I would love to see a SD60M in ho for BN. I know that P2K made it but its to hard to find. Also i would like atlas to make an ho sclae version of BN's GP39M, they have it in n-scale but not ho.

[Anonymous]

A PCM Allegheny with Digital sound

[twhite]

Union Pacific MK-6 2-8-2

Southern Pacific MK-5 2-8-2

DMIR M4 2-8-8-4 (more than anything!)

Aggro--

Isn't that a brass UP M-6 over at Bruces, for about the same price you'd probably end up paying if BLI or Proto came out with one?  Cute lil' ol' thang, I think!

Tom  

[CPRail modeler]

well, some canadian-style diesels would be nice. especially the one-of-a-kind RSD-17 for CP Rail, although i doubt thats coming out. i would like some 44H44A1 side-rod locomotives and maybe an SW1200RS or the upgraded version by CP Rail. i have also had my eyes on some FP7/9A units. some affordable DRS-4-4-1000 units and RS-23's too. All of these have to be around 100 dollars or less and in the CP Rail scheme or the script style. the main thing is that it must run good and be as detailed as a P2K or P1K diesel.

darn my high standards

[AggroJones]

Union Pacific MK-6 2-8-2

Southern Pacific MK-5 2-8-2

DMIR M4 2-8-8-4 (more than anything!)

[R. T. POTEET]

I am going to amend my previous response in this topic whereever it might be located.

Add to my list of Consolidations the B&O E-27 Class; in addition I could settle on one of the later PRR 2-8-0s like an H-8, H-9, or H-10 Classes; some years past there was an article in one of the hobby mags about modifying a Bowser PRR prototype Consolidation by removing the Belpair firebox from atop the boiler;  an acquaintance of mine spent the better part of two weeks doing just that and you could hardly stand to be in the same town with the guy when he was through - I am afraid I just don't have that kind of patience anymore and I would have to settle for mine being in plastic which, I am sure, is considerably easier to modify.. 

[R. T. POTEET]

Philip, my boy; your topic is addressed in the singular but I can be brief but I'm afraid I cannot be singular.

My current motive power fleet sets my (N Scale) railroad, the Seaboard and Western Virginia Railway, in the mid-80s.  The only thing I really would like to see associated with that era is some SDP35s, SDP40s, or SDP45s; the SDP35s are preferred.  My rationalization for these units on the roster is that in the mid-60s the S&WV took delivery of a handful of SDP35s to haul (what was left of) its varnish only to have the ICC surprise everyone by granting the railroad's train-off petition. These units have had their steam generators removed and are now teamed with my regular SD35s - and other units from the '60s - snaking coal trains into and out of the hills of eastern Ohio.  Should SDP40s or SDP45s be offered then I would at least have some body shells to provide my SD35s with steam boiler graftings.

I do have two other "wishes" for my current modeling era; firstly I could use some U33C/U36Cs although I do have a stock of U30Cs which I could convert to U33C/U36Cs a la a Ron Beardon article from an N Scale Railroading issue of a few years back.  Secondly, I would like to see - and would probably buy a couple of - good running, good looking SW1500/SW1000; Brother Jim Conway's offering in this regard left much to be desired always reminding me of that proverbial "horse designed by a committee".

HOWEVER:

I suffer from a disease called Transitioneraitus - defined as the tendency to salivate uncontrollably when a manufacturer announces a new steam engine - which can only be cured by a thirty year regression to the mid-50s from the mid-80s; to do that would require building a motive-power fleet for that era completely from scratch.  My preference would be to start with a good Consolidation; I could live with Bachmann's current offering if that was all that was available but my "druthers" for a 2-8-0 runs in the direction of AT&SF's 1900/1950 Classes, and/or Zulus, and/or MOPAC's C-63 Class as rebuilt with piston valves, Baker valve gear, and cast frames.

I have one other "wish" for a circa 1955 layout; I would like to see some CC-truck ALCOs i.e. RSD7s, and/or RSD12s, and/or RSD15s.

Start a topic concerning other locomotives one would like to see - particularly steamers from the '20s, '30s, and '40s - and I'll go hog-wild!!!

[Hudson]

B&A Berkshires in HO. The originals through the sports models. This was a historically important locomotive, the first superpower loco, it changed steam railroading overnight.

[PRRT1MAN]

Texas Zepher,

What I am looking for are the items you can only get in Brass for the PRR. Like a Q1, Q2, N1s, S1, S2, K5, 0-8-0 switcher. 

 

Sam Vastano

 

[navygunner]

N Scale with traction tires:

Yellowstone in die cast or plastic (the brass DMIR is very nice but at $1000.00 out of most peoples reach) in SP or DMIR.  Oh by the way about 100 ore cars to go with it!

N&W class Y6, geared for low speed running

N&W class A, geared for fast freight

Any Cab forward, because they are cool!

Good running and pulling examples of these locomotives have not been offered in Nscale for years.  LL offered an outstanding running and looking Y3, but the pulling power was not there.  I would be looking to buy pairs (at least) of any of these models if they could pull a decent load.

Bob

[Texas Zepher]

I would take almost anything if it was nice PRR in HO.

Hmmm, I thought that was most of the stuff out there either PRR or UP....

[PRRT1MAN]

I would take almost anything if it was nice PRR in HO.   I actually love kits so give me more  options. We only have Bowser right now, I would like a hybrid of several manufacturers  First I would take a Bowser boiler, less cab. Make a great looking plastic cab to put on it. Make a cast underframe of the tender with a plastic shell to put your sound into(BLI).  I would want can motor and  nice gearbox like from NWSL. Also sprung drivers and brake shoes! I know I have alot to ask but I would love to see more kits. I am not one for the instant gratification of today!

 

Sam Vastano

[Lillen]

I would like an Em-1. It should be high quality die-cast. If PCM could make one in the same quality as the Big Boy and the same feel I would be ecstatic. It should be HO and it should be DCC sound. The price should be somewhere between 600-800$. That would make me buy it at once. Even to put a deposit in a year ahead.

 

Magnus

[OzarkBelt]

A MILW Hiawatha 4-4-2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sounds good to me. What more could you want?

[SMassey]

I would like to see Kato start making more locos in HO scale.  I love their quality and detail but I hate the limited supply.  Now that being said I would like to see a re-release of the SD40-2 NS colors would be best.  I would also like to see an updated GP35 or other Gp series loco with the plug in board and possably sound ready like the SD38-2  that Kato has out now.

 

Just my $.02

 

 

[Cederstrand]

For N scale:

1) Mother Hubbard.

2) Any of the more unusual logging locomotives.

3) A more affordable 0-6-6-0. ;^)

4) Any Garrets.

OK, could easily make this a very long list, so will stop with these. -Rob 

 

 

[Texas Zepher]

What I would rather see is what DIFFERENT things someone wants from last years list. http://www.trains.com/trccs/forums/1/684622/ShowPost.aspx#684622

Well we STILL want them!

But then why a new thread. If most of the entries are going to be the same wouldn't it be easier just to pull up the old one, and add new entries to the end of it?

[coborn35]

P2K had factory painted Soo GP30s, with Alco trucks.  What is wrong with those?

Are they still made? If so, I would still have to renumber it.

[TwinZephyr]

A quality HO scale 1875 Baldwin 8-26 C 78 (i.e. a 4-4-0).  Also, an 1873 35 ton Baldwin 2-6-0.

[coborn35]

What I would rather see is what DIFFERENT things someone wants from last years list. 

http://www.trains.com/trccs/forums/1/684622/ShowPost.aspx#684622

Well we STILL want them! 

[Anonymous]

I would like to see HO RTR or Genesis run of the SD40T-2, SD-45, GS-4 in both daylight and pre daylight schemes, RS32, C-628, C-630, C-415 B36-7, SD-7 and GP-9. Although my dream unit would be a SD45X. I like Athearn due to the fact that the detail and workability of the new line of locomotives are better then anything else that I have worked with.

Well, Athearn is doing RTR SD45s soon, and there's talk of an RTR SD40T-2 as well. PCM is doing GS-4s, and if I'm not mistaken Atlas Trainman just did RS32s. Hasn't Atlas done B36-7s as well?

[Cannoli]

One loco I've been waiting for has recently been announced by Intermountain, they are releasing an MEC U18B in HO. YAY! The other I'd like to see is an HO GP40-2W modeled after those used by the MBTA in the Boston area.

Updated Proto 2K HO B&M GP18's and BL2's with DCC ready or DCC equiped mechanisms would be great too!

[Texas Zepher]

HO: SW1

Walthers used to make these.  I have several.  Have they discontinued them?

[Texas Zepher]

Now, for a Yellowstone, I'm not really sure. The Bachmann 2-10-0 has some trouble going around my curves. A Yellowstone would be disasterous!(I'd still buy one anyways:))

not that it would be disasterous in general, but I am certain several someones would buy one and expect it to run around 22" radius curves. 

[Bapou]

Thank you, I should have pointed out that I have the "new detailing" version of the F40ph.

[twhite]

After reading these five pages of wish-lists, I'm absolutely amazed to see two locomotives continually cropping up (especially in HO), and that's the Missabe M3/4 2-8-8-4's and the NP/GN/SP&S Z-class Challengers. 

Manufacturers--TAKE NOTICE.  Not EVERY Big Steam loco out there is a UP clone!

Tom

[wgnrr]

P2K had factory painted Soo GP30s, with Alco trucks.  What is wrong with those?

CNW R-1 4-6-0.

CMStP&P G6 4-6-0

Soo had some similar 4-6-0s as well.  Layout size engines, with metal boilers so they can pull more than 3 cars.

DM&IR 2-8-8-4s.  Some club members would go for those.

Athearn is working on improving the SD40-2.

H10-44s, H12-44s, H16-66s, H16-44s, all in MILW.

MILW S3 4-8-4.  Weaver made them in O scale, along with Skytop observations. 

Some people on this forum are reading my mind!

How about a Soo Line 2-8-0, like the one that a member of the SLH&TS converted out of a Bachmann 2-8-0 model.

The Soo 4-6-0 would have a living prototype. 2645 at MCRWY

Another H10-44 wouldn't be bad at all.

I would love to see a 1385 model.

The 4-6-0 in Austin, MN would be a lovely branchline engine for a layout.

261 would be a beautiful model.

Now, for a Yellowstone, I'm not really sure. The Bachmann 2-10-0 has some trouble going around my curves. A Yellowstone would be disasterous!(I'd still buy one anyways:))

I think you covered all of the engines!

Phil

[wgnrr]

How 'bout a

GE 65-tonner in HO

a i think its a 45t center cab (one of those side rod engines) 

and other small indust switchers.  

Those too. Cass Scenic RR has a 65t and a 45t side rod.

And while the side rod is produced, I will buy one to paint into Mid-Continet Railroad Museum paint.

Phil