Since I already have my F45's coming, put me done for B30-7a's, low nose GP7/9 (LL didn't cut it), and another run of sd 40-2's ( 77 -80 style grilles , Q fans but without the ditch lights). I vote no to U30/ c30-7's as that would bankrupt me.
Diesel: C39-8 for MOW duty. Steam: Bachmann is promising a N&W J class in Spectrum this year (we'll see). If Kato made a Pochahantis or Tennessean passenger consist, it would be awesome! A 2-8-8-4 Yellowstone would be welcome in plastic. The same frame and running gear would emulate the cab forwards nicely. I have a brass DMIR unit that pulls 40 cars up a 2% grade very nicely and looks just grand doing it. Much over that and it pulls the front drivers off track. And I do not have enough cars to stall it on A 1% GRADE. Now I need 50 ore cars to get it off of DRGW duty. N&W Class A or any of the C&O H series with a couple of runs of 50 and/or 70 ton hoppers with more than 1 or 2 reporting numbers in a release. Unfortunately LifeLike/Walthers hasn't taken the hint that some of us will spend the money on good looking AND good running steam. I've been burned on their Berkshires. Maybe they need to look to ConCor for some hints. Berkshires are on Ebay all of the time, when was the last time you saw a 2-10-2 listed? Plus the 2-10-2 is a 5 minute DCC coversion, by far the easiest out there without buying something already decoderized. Bob
I'd like a SDF40-2 - got your ears on Grant ? Grant send your kits to me!!!! (the BNSF / ATSF/ BN ones anyhow)
I've always liked roadswicher B-units, and lament the lack of them. GP9B. GP7B. GP30B. GP60B. SD24B. SD45B. DD35. B30-7A.
Gunner, I see you are new here, Welcome to TrainBoard. Those Brass DMIR Yellowstone's have excellent detail. nice to hear they can pull well too. there is one sitting on display at a Local Hobby store. I also plan to drive up to the Duluth Area where I believe there are 2 full size on display. One outside in a park and another under a shelter in Duluth near the depot. There is member of the local GRVS club (The Great River Valley System is an N-Trak modular model railroad club in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota) that does DMIR as well as modeled the Ore Dock http://www.grvs.com/missabe/index.htm http://www.grvs.com/ [ April 13, 2006, 10:10 AM: Message edited by: Kozmo ]
I was up there a few years ago and visited the one inside at the museum. Only problem was, as is true with most indoor displays, there was no place to take a good photo of it. Still was an awesome engine. I may have a partial shot of it somewhere along with my attempts at the cab forward in Sacramento. I did manage to get this beast all in one frame while in Roanoke. http://www.railimages.com/albums/russellstraw/aij.sized.jpg
Apparently I'm late to the party on this thread.... Here's my short list, many of which have been mentioned before: GP60M GP60B El Capitan Hi-Level trainset. 4-8-4 Northern (ATSF of course) Modern Autoflood II coal hopper!! (UCEX please)
Ah, yes! The 5-bay hopper. I see so many of them in modern railfan pictures that I'm surprised they aren't available.
I would like to see 2 models made. 1 being a CF-7 which Atlas could easily do but they have informed me there is no market for it. The other being chopped GP-7/9 as alot of shortlines run both of these engines.
Koz, the park is in Proctor on the main road (from memory). You can overlook the loading docks from there, or near there. The museum display has the loco raised off the track and the drivers rigged to turn when you press a button on the information board. You used to be allowed to climb into the cab - it's bigger than many bedrooms! (well, maybe not but it IS big). Well worth a look at in any instance. Our TB member Tim Diez is up that way somewhere, too.
Stuff I want Well, stuff I want that I think would be profitable for a manufactuer (lets face it, i'll never see a C30-7A unless its my own kitbash). Comet II/Horizon cars.... used everywhere east of the Mississippi, yet no one make them in any of the dozen available schemes. SW1500.... We need a quality switcher using needlepoint bearings and a split frame mechinism. I could use several. GP15-1.... not quite as high on my list as previously thanks to M4D shells coming. C40-8W.... The bachmann unit does not MU with any other units, the shell is too wide and the effort to make it a reliable runner is not worth the cost.
Daniel, how about Atlas or Kato making thoes Comet II coaches you were telling me about on the Atlas forum. I would also love to see someone do the Kawasaki Bi-levels.
I'd like some (real-not bethgons with logos on them) Norfolk Southern Top Gon coal gons. Like about 150 of them... Adam
Have you been to the website? There is a link with some technical info. The entire site will be updated soon. On the shells, most of the holes are already started for you (i.e, all the drop grabs and the fan grab holes are there) As for durability... I've had a GP40-2 shell sitting in the sunvisor of my car for over a year, no problems with it.
yard birds???? Isnt it about time some well designed 44T-70T locos were made for switching and depots- nearly everyone would put them on their layout and switching modules would get a lot more use... dave
Santa Fe heavyweight coaches (10 wide windows each side, channel side sill...) Santa Fe Bx3/6 panel-side boxcars (maybe I'll get around to scratching these someday) Steel side rebuilds of USRA boxcars (One of the car-side manufacturers already makes a kit for the streamlined divided "Jim Crow" coach and I haven't gotten around to buying one yet. Maybe I ought to, give them some business...) (sulphur gons are easy, I'll keep "rolling my own")
How bout a steam engine. Any steam engine. Before i die please. If i die first, I am switching to O gauge in heaven...... D
