The totals as of this morning 5-23-16
1) Modern Tank Car 18.5%
2) Centerbeam 73' Car/ 63' Car 20.4%
3) Auto Racks 37%
4) 60' Boxcar 11.1%
5) TTX Flat Cars 5.6%
6) Pullman Standard 4750 CUFT PS-CD2 covered hopper 7.4%
Please vote for the one Car you would be most interested in buying.
--Rocco--
NOTE: Thanks Mark for your club's input. All others, please share this with your club and fellow "S" members as I really want to get everyone's choices included.
Of the six modern cars, I would most like to see the autorack produced in S. I've already built one by narrowing a Lionel body. Well-weathered and rusted it looks great, but performance-wise it is top-heavy and needs much added weight at at the bottom deck level. Next question, would I buy one or more S autoracks? Probably not. The trains that I am currently modelling require both single- and double-sheathed 40-foot wood boxcars and early 40-foot steel boxcars. I am modeling 1980 Mexico where 40-foot boxcars were still being built into the '80's!!!
Gil Hulin
I will update the results this weekend.
--Rocco--
The percentages as of this morning 5-30-16
1) Modern Tank Car 19.3%
2) Centerbeam 73' Car/ 63' Car 19.3%
3) Auto Racks 38.6%
4) 60' Boxcar 10.5%
5) TTX Flat Cars 5.3%
6) Pullman Standard 4750 CUFT PS-CD2 covered hopper 7.0%
Please vote for the one Car you would be most interested in buying.
--Rocco--
1) Modern Tank
and 6,451 Cu Ft Hopper...we got grain to go to market
With all of this talk of more modern cars I wonder if people have looked at American Models cars? I did an interview for G Gaugian with him yesterday and he took me to his website and explained the era of what he has for sale. Some he called transitional meaning they were in the era when both steam and diesels were used and others are post steam. His tank car is a lot more modern that a Gilbert or Lionel AF. If you haven't looked at his on line catalog I suggest you do.
While "modern" is a pretty much relative term, (I have a 1952 issue of "Modern Railroading" sitting on my shelf...) the prototype for AM' "modern" tank car hails from the 1980's, the Railbox cars from the mid 1970's. Some of the S Scale America cars are somewhat newer prototypes, but are also getting long in the tooth.
None of the TOFC cars by either AM or MTH would be in service today. The AM spine cars and SSA well cars are also past their prime.
The AM and SSA cars are at best stand ins. They are less representative of contemporary railroading than they seem. There's no BNSF swoosh, (well, MTH has it on an outdated PS-2 hopper) only two NS and one CSX car in the AM line and no contemporary Canadian Pacific to be found. Most of the roads offered by AM are long gone.
Also, except for the outdated MTH NS and BNSF PS-2 hoppers, absolutely none have the conspicuity striping represented that is mandated by the FRA on all freight cars since 2005.
Rusty
Auto Racks is my number 1 pick! I'd buy several dozen auto racks!
Regards,
Swafford
The percentages as of this morning 6-15-16
1) Modern Tank Car 21.3%
2) Centerbeam 73' Car/ 63' Car 18%
3) Auto Racks 37.7%
4) 60' Boxcar 9.8%
5) TTX Flat Cars 6.6%
6) Pullman Standard 4750 CUFT PS-CD2 covered hopper 6.6%
Please vote for the one Car you would be most interested in buying
I know it's been a while but another S Club has responded so the percentages as of 7-15-16
1) Modern Tank Car 19.5%
2) Centerbeam 73' Car/ 63' Car 15.8%
3) Auto Racks 39%
4) 60' Boxcar 10.9%
5) TTX Flat Cars 7.4%
6) Pullman Standard 4750 CUFT PS-CD2 covered hopper 7.4%
Please vote for the one Car you would be most interested in buying
Thanks for your vote. I will publish new total shortly.
--Rocco--
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