Posted on the Railwire forum that BLI just listed on their website their proposed production and delivery schedule for the next year. Recall that this is the same company [BLI/PCM] that announced the PRR M1 and the N&W N3a hopper about 8-9 years ago. Well they are once again listed. Anyway, I count a total of 43 models both HO and N scale that are listed on their "Expected Product Delivery Schedule" to be delivered between April 2014 and March 2015. Forty three models in one year!!!!! Somehow, given what we have experienced the last couple of years, I cannot believe that is possible for one company to pull off. So I figure one or more of three things must have happened: A. This situation in China has been totally resolved and/or B. Someone at BLI/PCM hit the powerball lottery and/or C. They are kidding and most of this is vaporware [again]. Here is the URL: http://www.broadway-limited.com/schedule.aspx
D. They expect to retrieve a container from the ocean floor. E. The April fools joke was uploaded a month early. In the end I do hope they succeed.
You can sit here wondering and speculating all day long. At the end of the day you won't know anymore then when you first started. It will get's here when it get's here and no sooner. No matter how much screaming and yelling we do. Anyone up for a quick tantrum?
Handrails will be too thick. The headlight will be to blue. They can't pull 30 cars up my 3% grades. The coupler's too big. The door latches are only correct after 1963, I model December 1962. Too expensive. ...and I haven't even seen them yet!!
I think more likely, they have the HO market saturated. If you look at all the HO releases, most are only a couple road names and or numbers. Most of the HO releases are reruns so there is no product developement cycle to go through, just turn on the machines and crank out the product. I'm glad to see they finally decided N was viable, even if it happens to be because HO sales are waining, it gives N scalers some production time finally.
I agree with Boxcab on this one. Although I am NOT from Missouri, I'm not impressed 'til you show me !!!
I feel your pessimism. IM announced their FP-7s in ARR colors 4 years ago. I foolishly bought decoders for them at the time of preorder. Lo and behold I'm still waiting. I see IM has yet again delayed (ad nauseam) the delivery. Lesson leaned, if you want something and it isn't available, just "bash it". You'll get the pleasure if owning a "one off". And, if the full moon actually rises for the 4th time in a month you'll actually get your production unit(s). On a side note, don't do like me. I've pre ordered a buuuunch of stuff. Now that some of it is finally coming in, the credit card is melting down. It's all covered, but probably should have deposited money in a train account at the time of preorder to prevent surprise expenditures. Brian
Still waiting on some RS3's from lowell smith and atlas, my only hope is that the IM F3's will be delivered quickly. I'm not sure why Pennsy fans would or should feel pessimistic about a release, shoot they could be modeling a one off road like the SP&S, ARR, Oregon railway Nav. co., or even the NP(I thought the NP would have 2 or 3 times the models produced than it currently does in N).
Did anyone else notice at the bottom of the list the Baldwin centipedes listed in N scale? Great news if it actually happens!hboy:
I was going to ask the same thing. There is so much HO stuff there you could be forgiven for not seeing any of the N scale items buried under it all. I'd love the HO Santa Fe 2-10-2 to be done in N scale. Oh well, maybe in twenty or so years after they've done the M1.
Sometimes I'm glad when things don't happen, because if it does it will cost me money. I will have to have a set of PRR Baldwin Centipedes, if they ever make them!
Hey, I preordered 2 of the M1a's way back in the summer of 2006 or 2005. But that was at my old address and under my old credit card so I guess I am free of that obligation. I would like to see BLI make good this time and really produce the PRR M1. I also hope that the locomotive is a quality product and sales go through the roof. Maybe then, just maybe, other manufacturers will see the light and we will hopefully get more PRR steam. But this time I won't order two. I'll order just one. My interests have changed since 2005-2006. I am not into big PRR mainline steam as much although I would also get one K4 4-6-2 also. An H10 2-8-0 or an I1 2-10-0 would have more appeal to me. The PRR literally sold hundreds if not thousands of them to coal hauling short line RR's throughout the East and in many instances they became the sole locomotive power on those lines.
Brian (Arctic Train), when I was in Denver last weekend at the Toy Train Show, Intermountain was there and they had the black w/yellow lettering and Bicentennial ARR FP7A locos sitting there. IM is still showing March for delivery of these so let's keep our fingers crossed.
At the GTE show in January in the Philly area, I asked the BLI rep, just messing around, about the M1 project. To my surprise, he claimed that BLI was just finishing up the mold work and sound project. So, maybe, there's something to this after all. Not holding my breath.
The quickest way to ensure a product is going to be released is to custom make one yourself. As soon as you get done with your extensive modification and paint job, the "Product Arrival" notice will pop up on this site.
I àm getting frustrated with all the new locos being produced with sound. It should be an option. My railroad is DC and will always be Dc, so I am tired of being forced to buy this option
