I have always wanted the BN trough train coal cars to be done.A fully assembled ready to run auto rack and two pack auto racks would be nice to.Hey Alan maybe you can help me out.
How about ATSF hi-level "El-Capitan" passenger cars? That would be cool. Articulated Auto racks would also be nice.
DODX 40000 series heavy duty flatsis my pick. I was goung to cast my own until Alan announced he was doing them. How are they coming along, Alan?
this thing!!!!!!!!!!!! unless i get mine done first! [ 24 November 2001: Message edited by: Mopac3092 uuuugggh i give up a 36 axle schnabel car!!!!!! [Administrator's note: I edited your post to show the great pictures correctly. Harold] [ 24 November 2001: Message edited by: chessie ]</p>
My vote - open auto racks. Either completely open (like the Bachman cars only made well) or open tops and ends with side panels. DODX cars are an easy scratchbuild, BTW - got one and building another. Thanks MTL for the trucks!
<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Inkaneer: DODX 40000 series heavy duty flatsis my pick. I was goung to cast my own until Alan announced he was doing them. How are they coming along, Alan?<hr></blockquote> Chester, the patterns should be finished next week All being well, the kits could be ready in a couple of weeks.
I would like someone to make the PS troop sleeper. Preferably with blind punchouts for windows, so that it can easily be modeled as original or as the later rebuids used in freight or MOW service.
I contacted Red Caboose about making an art. autorack, and they said the 'plate is full for about 18 mos' ... I may contact M-T to make it. I got some really cool closeups, and have them posted to my web album, under BTTX, I think. Check 'em out! What I really wanna see is a 12-axle HD flat along the lines of a Schnabel car, but not quite so HD. TTX owns a few 370T flats, flat deck, and depressed-center. Alan?
Those articulated autoracks certainly would make a great model. I really like the idea or articulated models as it means less coupler conversions
The articulated auto rack is my vote. Also, it would be great for someone to make a working rotary coupler for open hoppers.
I think the Bombardier cars (commuter cars as shown above) would be nice, along with some Canadian Streemlined cars or anything of the CC&F build. I also believe that there should be alot more availablity and more road names in intermodal cars, there is almost none here in Vancouver, and yet very second train I saw today (I saw 6) was just intermodal. Happy Railroading! Dane
<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by ajb: Some decent 86' auto/appliance boxcars.<hr></blockquote> I like to second that motion. Those Con-Cor cars are a joke.
<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by william: I like to second that motion. Those Con-Cor cars are a joke.<hr></blockquote> you might want to have a look at this topic Better running autoracks
I would like to see MDC come out with an N-scale model of the 50' Bathtub Gondola. (They make one in HO but not N) I need a couple hundred of these babies to model the UFIX Utility Fuels black and orange coal tubs that beat the rails between the Powder River and Houston for the past 15 years here in Texas. Course then I would need some SD70MAC's to go along with them, but that's another topic. Incidentally, those of you mentioning the Bombardier commuter cars...I saw an N-scale resin kit for these on eBay a few weeks ago. I bid on the kit, as the Trinity Railway Express here in Dallas uses these cars along with F59PH's. (former GO Transit I believe) The fellow said he had a couple more kits he would be running but I havn't seen them pop up yet. The single car went for about $20 bucks.
<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by HemiAdda2d: What I really wanna see is a 12-axle HD flat along the lines of a Schnabel car, but not quite so HD. TTX owns a few 370T flats, flat deck, and depressed-center. Alan? <hr></blockquote> This is a car I am planning on doing, but it is only an eight axle one! (Two four-wheel trucks each end - articulated) with depressed center section. Not a great photo, we spotted it on Cajon pass. Shown on the TTX website under QTTX.
The 40-foot woodrack that Atlas put out looks mighty nice, but I'd like to see a 54-foot car. That, and a carbon black hopper.
Some great suggestions. Any kind of heavy duty flat will be cool. One car that I would like to see are the new reefer cars with the platforms on one end and the reefer units like on a truck trailer. I have seen these cars in UP, BNSF, Tropicana, and with just leasing company reporting marks. They are just great looking cars.
