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If done with road/era specific detail, an SD40-2 would be a sure hit, especially for the 2R community with the horizontal drive.   As noted, although previous runs by Lionel, MTH, Weaver, etc... there are many paint schemes and era's that this locomotive can be produced for, so as long as the tooling supports some modularity/flexibility would certainly be a good product to invest in....   Lionel's recently reinvested in new tooling for the SD38/SD40 so there is obviously something to this model's flexibility if done correctly.

IMO, It would be nice to see Scott incorporate the electronics interface to use the ESU Loksound Select L decoder (Plug and Play) in place of the QSI titan

Mike DeBerg posted:

Joe,  Who makes that concrete tie track?

 

Sorry Mike, I missed your question! I had to look to make sure it was to me.

That grey track is G scale. They are Train-Li ties in grey that I paint again to protect from the sun. I tried some of their nickle silver rails (in the picture) as a test to compare with the Aristo stainless that I use exclusively. I do like the ties.

 Otherwise, I'm not sure what track your question is about? I wish I had bought some 2 rail O scale with concrete ties. I think I had found some, years ago and forgot about it??

Engineer-Joe posted:
 
Sorry Mike, I missed your question! I had to look to make sure it was to me.

That grey track is G scale. They are Train-Li ties in grey that I paint again to protect from the sun. I tried some of their nickle silver rails (in the picture) as a test to compare with the Aristo stainless that I use exclusively. I do like the ties.

 Otherwise, I'm not sure what track your question is about? I wish I had bought some 2 rail O scale with concrete ties. I think I had found some, years ago and forgot about it??

Joe,  No worries.  More curious than anything.  I hadn't seen that before in G scale.  They look great!

Scott asked about SD70MACs about 6-8 months ago and I said I would be in for a couple but they are BNSF and ARR only and think GP40-2s would do better.  The Amfleet cars are the first ones with less than ~6 railroads he is willing to try.  But the majority of the feedback he received on doing any 2nd and 3rd generation diesels was the SD40-2 would do the best.  Seein' as how he has less than half of the needed reservations even to begin the design work that's not coming along as hoped.  The FP45 is in the same situation.  The 3-rail market is satisfied, and saturated, with the Lionel and MTH versions of all the above and the 2-rail market is just not large enough to sustain any alone.

rdunniii posted:

Scott asked about SD70MACs about 6-8 months ago and I said I would be in for a couple but they are BNSF and ARR only and think GP40-2s would do better.  The Amfleet cars are the first ones with less than ~6 railroads he is willing to try.  But the majority of the feedback he received on doing any 2nd and 3rd generation diesels was the SD40-2 would do the best.  Seein' as how he has less than half of the needed reservations even to begin the design work that's not coming along as hoped.  The FP45 is in the same situation.  The 3-rail market is satisfied, and saturated, with the Lionel and MTH versions of all the above and the 2-rail market is just not large enough to sustain any alone.

Good Day,

Thanks for the overview. I think the price point on the SD40-2 has slowed the ordering down. Scott offers fantastic products but the  price is a big factor. The price on all diesel locomotives from Lionel, MTH, Atlas and 3rd Rail are going to continue to go up as cost of the products continue to go up. I do hope the SD40-2 does get built! I wish Scoot the best!

Regards,

Swafford 

rdunniii posted:

There is even less support for SD70XXX than there is for SD40-2s. 

How is support measured? How does 3rd Rail know that there is less support for the SD70 than there is for the SD40-2 .... when there is no SD70 reservation page?

Is there some more-or-less official venue where 3rd Rail measures support?

I only ask because I want to contribute.

Matt

Matt01 posted:
rdunniii posted:

There is even less support for SD70XXX than there is for SD40-2s. 

How is support measured? How does 3rd Rail know that there is less support for the SD70 than there is for the SD40-2 .... when there is no SD70 reservation page?

Is there some more-or-less official venue where 3rd Rail measures support?

I only ask because I want to contribute.

Matt

Very simply.  Email Scott and say if you make X I will reserve Y number of them.  If potential reservations for X reach about 2 to 3 dozen he will ask around if anybody else thinks it will do well reservation wise and if they agree he will offer it.   Right now SD70XXX potential reservations are still in the single digits (as of a month ago or so) so it goes nowhere. 

Swafford posted:
rdunniii posted:

Scott asked about SD70MACs about 6-8 months ago and I said I would be in for a couple but they are BNSF and ARR only and think GP40-2s would do better.  The Amfleet cars are the first ones with less than ~6 railroads he is willing to try.  But the majority of the feedback he received on doing any 2nd and 3rd generation diesels was the SD40-2 would do the best.  Seein' as how he has less than half of the needed reservations even to begin the design work that's not coming along as hoped.  The FP45 is in the same situation.  The 3-rail market is satisfied, and saturated, with the Lionel and MTH versions of all the above and the 2-rail market is just not large enough to sustain any alone.

Good Day,

Thanks for the overview. I think the price point on the SD40-2 has slowed the ordering down. Scott offers fantastic products but the  price is a big factor. The price on all diesel locomotives from Lionel, MTH, Atlas and 3rd Rail are going to continue to go up as cost of the products continue to go up. I do hope the SD40-2 does get built! I wish Scoot the best!

Regards,

Swafford 

I tend to agree on price point especially when you add shipping $35+ for 2 units, a couple of years ago I would have been more into a pair of these but today my interests are in newer motive power. JMO

rdunniii posted:
Matt01 posted:
rdunniii posted:

There is even less support for SD70XXX than there is for SD40-2s. 

How is support measured? How does 3rd Rail know that there is less support for the SD70 than there is for the SD40-2 .... when there is no SD70 reservation page?

Is there some more-or-less official venue where 3rd Rail measures support?

I only ask because I want to contribute.

Matt

Very simply.  Email Scott and say if you make X I will reserve Y number of them.  If potential reservations for X reach about 2 to 3 dozen he will ask around if anybody else thinks it will do well reservation wise and if they agree he will offer it.   Right now SD70XXX potential reservations are still in the single digits (as of a month ago or so) so it goes nowhere. 

Thank you, rdunniii

Matt

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