How about some old time cars for the Atlas 2-6-0, Athearn 2-8-0 and 2-6-0s? How about a truss rod flat car? You could use the same mold to make a truss rod tank car, and a truss rod gondola. Like these but standard gauge http://www.accucraft.com/AM31300 FLAT.htm http://www.accucraft.com/AM31400 TANK CAR.htm http://www.accucraft.com/AM30001 GON.htm And if not I would like some heavyweights.
I add my name to the Heavy Weight Passenger cars and bay window caboose. Add to that I would really like to see a Auto-Flood II coal hopper.
Response Hey, sorry if I didn't get back to you, I have to wade through 200 emails every morning and stuff gets missed dispite my trying to stay on top of stuff. Your suggestion is noted and tomorrow I'll review these cars and see what I can come up with. Thanks for your input and persistance!! Cheers Joe MTL
Hey everyone. So far, lots of great stuff here to digest. I have a meeting in two weeks to review some suggestions and get formal approval to move ahead with research and development. I have always wanted us to do passenger cars, this might give me the ammo I need to make a great sales pitch. Also like the Carbon Cars and many of the other suggestions so far. I hope to be able to announce some new projects being tooled for 07 soon, I think some of them will make a bunch of folks happy. Also, we already make an 89' TOFC flat...am I missing something here? I know we haven't released it for some time, maybe that's what's going on here. Anyway, I will try and make some announcements in the coming weeks. Cheers Joe MTL
MTL Models Hi Joe, I'd love to see MTL do the following new body styles: 1) 89' Channel Side Flat Car http://members.surfbest.net/intermodal@surfbest.net/RTTX1547.HTM 2) Espee C-50-9 Bay Window Caboose http://espee.railfan.net/picindex/c-50-09_photos/4702_sp-c-50-9-tom_fassett.jpg 3) PCF 50' Boxcar (SP Classes B-100-36 and -38) http://www.railgoat.railfan.net/spcars/byclass/box/b100-38.htm http://www.railgoat.railfan.net/spcars/byclass/box/b100-36.htm Also appeared in Cotton Belt and Golden West Service schemes. 4) Greenville 2 bay 2300cuft Open Hopper (SP Class H-100-29) http://www.railgoat.railfan.net/spcars/byclass/hopper/h100-29.htm Also appeared in Golden West Service schemes. In the meantime, how about some of these schemes on your existing body styles: 1) SP 89' Flush Deck Flat Car http://www.railgoat.railfan.net/spcars/byclass/flat/f070-74.htm I'm looking for more photos - KCS also has some exSP cars. http://www.railcarphotos.com/PhotoDetails.php?PhotoID=2571 TTWX Scheme for the TTX Flat http://members.surfbest.net/intermodal@surfbest.net/TTWX9824.HTM Note the Preferred 45' and Xtra Fruehauf 45' Trailers in the background. 2) 45' Fruehauf Trailer SP - I need some more Golden Pigs http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/ttx/ttwx970747k.jpg SP Olympic - http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/sp/splz936451ags.jpg http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=48656 Transamerica Leasing Xtra Preferred 45' / Preferred 102 The absence of these schemes on these cars is almost criminal!!! You could also do the 48' Fruehauf trailer for Schneider National in 2 schemes too!!!
First off: Modern trucks to support intermodal operations. Yes, this means the Freightliner Century Class, Kenworth T-600s, KW T-2000, Volvos, and Peterbilts. Doing this right would allow MT to tap into the vehicle collectors market as well. For cars, I'd like to see single well intermodals, and 19th century rolling stock.
I'm surprised this one hasn't been mentioned yet, the 50 ft Airslide Covered Hopper, sure it's been produced by Delaware Valley, but it's hardly the tooling quality we expect today, and who knows if this place is still in business? I'm also in for the Heavyweights.
I'd second the vote for the PCF 50's since as well as SP they appeared in STE livery (Photo on Chris Van der Heide's site) http://freight.railfan.ca/ste/ste1922.jpg Simon
Roundhouse made the Olverton, and the larger Overland. Athenrs has continued them. I have a 5 car set of the Overland cars and I really like them. Not sure if they are still in production, but they are still readily available at many oline places.
Hey Joe, On the MTL site,the Pan Am car is listed @$35.95mg: . Is that like an April Fools joke? I hope ?
Pan AM Nope..no joke. The car sides are different from each other and there are a lot of two and three strikes on the white to make it stand out enough. Very expensive car to produce and we sold out as of last Friday...so the price must have been ok to some? I wish there was a way to do these for less, I'd love to have one myself. Joe
Hey, no apologies necessary...it may not even fit the criteria you defined so no worries. It's not unusual to not receive feedback from electronic suggestion boxes so I wasn't trying to single you guys out if that's what you thought. Actually, I appreciate you braving the crazies here to try and get feedback. Amazingly, the ideas here seem to all be pretty reasonable and in-line with your request...must be a full moon! :moon: mg: Contact me via pm or e-mail if you want ammo for your presentation.
Delaware Valley was purchased by Bowser eons ago and these cars are still available through the Bowser name.
I'll throw in my two cents for the previously stated "Horizon" style Amtrak passenger car. Badly needed for an 1990's-current layout!
Hi, Joe. I vote for the carbon black car. The best car to do would be the 3000 cubic foot cars built by AC&F and GATC between about 1933 and 1949. Unlike the modern cars which vary widely in design, the 3000 cubic foot cars changed little during their years of production. They also had quite a few owners - Cabot Carbon Co., Coltexo Corporation, Columbian Carbon Co., Continental Carbon Co., J. M. Huber Corp., Sid Richardson Carbon Co., United Carbon Co., and Witco Chemical Co. to name a few. They were very distinctive looking cars, were operated over most major railroads, and were in service into the 1980's. Funaro & Camerlengo offers an HO scale kit for this car: http://www.fandckits.com/HOFreight/6310.html While nearly all carbon black cars wore the same black paint, they were lettered many different ways over the years and many of the early cars had very bold stenciling advertising the contents of the cars:
I'll vote for: Heavyweight passenger cars Three dome tank cars Bay window caboose (early) 50' TOFC flats 40' MOW cars (bunk, tool, aux tender, work flat, etc)
