More cabooses in N scale. An International Bay Window would be nice.
A true 4740 CUFT Covered hopper in N.
Other than that, I'm good.
Ore cars, man...ore cars.
The latest offerings by Walthers and Train-Miniature(?) are nice, and I'm not complaining, but they are "Minnesota" cars. What us pellet-heads need are some high-quality, heavy "Lake Superior" cars. These are narrower than the Minnesota cars, and were used by the LS&I, Soo Line, CNW, Milwaukee, etc. The good 'ol Roundhouse cars are quite accurate, but their detailing is a bit "low-tech" compared to what's out there now, and it takes a lot of work to get their coupling distance shortened up to something that looks more prototypical. Some Soo Line-DSS&A "slant-end" cars would be the cat's bomb.
But I do like what some of you have listed here, too. Let's hope some of it becomes available!
Mick Enright
1890 era twin hopper gondola
34' truss rod boxcar
30' peaked roof boxcar
30' round roof boxcar
34' truss rod Wickes reefer
30' trussrod Tiffany reefer
B&O/N&W/VGN 1900 era wood hopper
Nobody has made a new plastic scale truss rod freight car in plastic in the last 30 years. Roundhouse updated their models of a 1920 era truss rod car that can pass for 1900 if you aren't picky but that body style has been in production for over 30 years.
The major commodity hauled by railroads in the late 1800's and early 1900's was coal and there are ZERO, NADA, NO cars produced except for resin kits of the most common coal cars from 1830-1910 and those are 1 resin kit oa a NYO&W hopper bottom gon and some Westerfield early steel cars.
Throw us a bone, how about 1 new car every quarter century? Do we really need another variation of the 1937 40 ft steel boxcar? Do we really need another steel twin hopper? Railroads were around before the World War I.
Dave H.
Dave H. Painted side goes up. My website : wnbranch.com
Old (circ 30's & 40's) beer brand wooden reefers:
Yuengling - Reingold - Kickerbocker - Dixie - Reading
HO Boonton coaches. in plastic
N Scale plows
and kind of a side note. i would like more manu to list build dates on their web sites. i've only seen atlas doing this so far
I would like to see HO scale:
Lehigh Valley Bethlehem 50' gondolas
LV Despatch Shops 50' boxcars
D&H ore hoppers
I would like to have a variety of 1945-1955 era 40' box cars, wood sided single sheathed and steel double sheathed, HO for me.
I am talking about the older inside heights of 8'-6" to 10'. When you see a picture of a string of box cars of the 1945-1955 era you will see a variety of roof heights. Every HO manufacturer has the 1935 ARA standard box with 10'-6" (?) inside height. Red Caboose/Tichey have the X-29. We need more variety for this era.
Ted Culotta in RMC has done an extensive series on these earlier box cars, based on Sunshine or Westerfield kits. These craftsman kits are great for special models, but I would think that there are enough folks modeling the transition era (1945-1955) who would want a easy kits, Branchline quality, or r-t-r of good quality.
This one is about 30 years overdue in N scale: the S.P. Cab forward. A N&W 2-8-8-2 has been available for years from MRC/ Rivarossi/Con-Cor. Do you mean that a proper "shell" and tender could not have been produced during the intervening years?
I'm not an SP fan, but 60% of N-scalers would go for it, not including (of course) all those who went to the big scale, gave up, or passed away without seeing their wish come true.
How about it guys?!
ardenastationmaster
I'd like to see modernized heavyweight passenger cars (especially chair cars) such as used by Southern Railway, Texas & Pacific, and others. I'm in HO.
tomnoy3 wrote: Modern intermodal, HO scale Maxi IV's, 53' Spine cars, a re-run of Walthers Long Runner. More grain cars, especially if Athearn Genesis came out with ARI's Through Sill with Union Pacific's Building America and CMO reporting marks. Different centerbeam cars, and maybe some all-purpose 89' flats.
Modern intermodal, HO scale Maxi IV's, 53' Spine cars, a re-run of Walthers Long Runner. More grain cars, especially if Athearn Genesis came out with ARI's Through Sill with Union Pacific's Building America and CMO reporting marks. Different centerbeam cars, and maybe some all-purpose 89' flats.
Also, DODX flat cars:
60' Heavy Duty six-axle flat car with 2 M1A2 Abrams tanks
68' Heavy Duty four-axle flat car with Self-propelled howitzer and reloading vehicle
5' military containers, which link up in quads to fit on 89' all-purpose flats as 20' units
Trinity Rail Group built LPG tankcars, 30,000 gallon tankcars, and 20,000 to 25,000 tankcars.
R-70-15, R-70-16, R-70-18, R-70-19, R-70-20, R-70-22, and R-70-24, all with Hydra-Cushion underframes
FGE built mechanical reefers
PC&F 60' RBLs with 14' doors
PC&F and FGE 60' RPLs, the type used by Tropicana
40', 100 ton, PC&F boxcars
PC&F 50', rib side RBLs
"No soup for you!" - Yev Kassem (from Seinfeld)
New York Central Budd-built "Valley"-series 10/6 sleepers
Two cars to complement Walthers P-S C&O-prototype 52-passenger coach:
B&O (ex-C&O) PS 5 double bedroom-obs as used on the "Capital Limited" and "Ambassador"
C&O P-S 10/6 sleepers
Whoops! Forgot to say HO in previous post and didn't sign it. A thousand pardons.
Roy
I would love to see N Guage Milwaukee Road horizontal rib-sided box cars, 40' & 50'.
Hiawatha Fan
As both a modeler and a provider of mostly N Scale stock items, I think it would behoove some manufacturer to spend the time, effort and tooling costs to develop a comprehensive line of Passenger Fleet cars in both 'Heavyweight' versions from the 1920s to 1930s, and the same in the 'corrugated' versions commonly found in the 1940s to 1960s. These eras are prime examples of the eras many folks commonly model in nearly all scales, yet have little to no stock available (especially in N Scale) at a reasonable cost. In years gone by, Rivarossi provided some nice reasonably priced models for Con-Cor, however, since their bankruptcy these are in very short supply. Con-Cor has opted to focus on primarily special train sets and locomotives lately and the offerings in medium to high quality passenger cars for all roads (AT A REASONABLE PRICE), are extremely difficult to find. Other brands are either super high quality at a high cost, or low-end plastic versions not worthy of the money spent for the long-haul modeler.
Same thing goes for good quality yet reasonable priced structure kits in N Scale.
ARCY
HO Scale:
Great Northern plywood boxcar - many many thousands built, seen all over the US from 40's through 70's
WFE/FGE early-to-transition era reefers - the semi-accurate Accurail is all we've had for years. Thank you Intermountain for stepping up, but its just a start compared to the glut of PFE.
I used to walk along the tracks on my way to high school in the mid 70's and for the longest time there was a stretch of piggyback trailer carriers parked on an abandoned siding. These carriers were yellow with black lettering (TTX). Each carrier had a pair of hitches for the trailers and at either end had one folding ramp on the opposite side of the opposing carrier. They were probably no longer than 60'
I have tried finding something like them but the only thing close I've found is too long. I'm modeling late 60's to late 70's
Empire under construction !
The early bird catches the worm.
But, the second mouse gets the cheese!
How about a plastic GATX Pressure Slide "Whale Belly" Cement Hopper in HO. Seems there is only a brass version available, and $285 is a bit much
MECALCOFAN
ardenastationmaster, just an fyi, the thread is about rolling stock, not locos. (I'm looking forward to a cab forward also...)
N scale - 19th century rolling stock.
N scale - spine cars.
Daniel1975 wrote: HO Scale AT&SF - El Capitan cars
orsonroy wrote: B&O wagontop boxcars, 36 foot stock cars
The rolling stock I would like to see someone produce in plastic in HO (they've already been done in N), are the Northern Pacific Pig Palaces, and BIG Pig Palaces. IHC-Mehano had a long double decker stock that they painted in the Pig Palace scheme but it wasn't.
Texas Zepher wrote: orsonroy wrote: B&O wagontop boxcars, 36 foot stock cars Didn't Mantua do some of the wagon tops just a few years ago. And I thought Cenral Valley did a 36' stock car (Northern Pacific prototyp as I recall) that they only discontinued a short time ago.
The Central Valley NP stock car is a 40-footer. Red Caboose is about to release an SP 36 foot stock car (which is great news!), but that will still be the only decent 36 foot stock available (I think that all of the resin stock cars are 40 footers too).
As for the B&O wagontops, we've only ever had three choices: brass, F&C or Sunshine resin, or the OLD Cannonball plastic & stamped brass version. MRR Warehouse just re-released these kits, and while a LOT easier to build than the resin versions, they're crudely detailed by today's standards. I'd like to see one released by either Branchline or Intermountain.
Ray Breyer
Modeling the NKP's Peoria Division, circa 1943
Texas Zepher wrote: Daniel1975 wrote: HO Scale AT&SF - El Capitan cars These have been done. I don't remember the company name off the top of my head, but they were on clearance at my local hobby store about a year ago. I saw them sitting there for a couple months, and by the time I realized they were the AT&SF not the high level Amtrak cars, all the 72 seat coaches that I needed to finish my train (I've got the Hallmark set) were gone. orsonroy wrote: B&O wagontop boxcars, 36 foot stock cars Didn't Mantua do some of the wagon tops just a few years ago. And I thought Cenral Valley did a 36' stock car (Northern Pacific prototyp as I recall) that they only discontinued a short time ago.The rolling stock I would like to see someone produce in plastic in HO (the've already been done in N), are the Northern Pacific Pig Palaces, and BIG Pig Palaces. IHC-Mehano had a long double decker stock that they painted in the Pig Palace scheme but it wasn't.
The rolling stock I would like to see someone produce in plastic in HO (the've already been done in N), are the Northern Pacific Pig Palaces, and BIG Pig Palaces. IHC-Mehano had a long double decker stock that they painted in the Pig Palace scheme but it wasn't.
Train Station Products released the hi level cars in kit form, decorated for Santa Fe or undec (they are also sold under the Detail Associates name as a super kit with the DA detail kit included). They are also sold in RTR form from Intermountain in SF and Amtrak. I spke to Mr Wright last fall, and he said the lounges would be released this year ('07).
I WOULD LIKE TO SEE NARROW GUAGE HON3 INEXPENSIVE FREIGHT AND PASSENGER EQUIPMENT AS I FIND THIS VERY INTERESTING AND PLAN ON ADDING NARROW GUAGE TRACK FOR LOGGING AND MINING TO MY LAYOUT . I ALSO LIKE THE OTHER ITEMS THAT PEOPLE HAVE ADDED SEEMS LIKE COMPANYS WOULD REALIZE THERE IS A BIGGER DEMAND THEN JUST FOR ATSF UNION PACIFIC SOUTHERN PACIFIC WHEN THEY PRODUCE CARS . I DO NOT HAve anything against these lines bUT WHAT ABOUT NC&STL, ACL,SAL, AND MANY OTHER LINES I LIKE VARIETY ON MY RAILROAD LIKE TO ADD CARS FROM LINES BESIDE THE BIG ONES .