Sunset/3rd Rail in the past made truly lovely Electroliners and Budd RDC's in brass. I own examples of both. Along the same lines, but yet, being something a little different, I'd finally like to see and purchase Brill Bullets done in O scale.
A Milwaukee Road S-2 Northern
Well, here I go again.....
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I too would love to see 3rdrail produce some more speedliners similar to their North Shore electroliner such as the Missouri and Arkansas blue goose.
Bob Nelson
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I would love to see them make some "fish cars" like the "WFC Badger". Maybe even make the car an operating car which offloads "milk cans" (filled with fish fry) into the beds of waiting pickup trucks for further delivery to local streams.
Bob Nelson
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Still looking for the B&O Big Six 2-10-2.
Cotton Belt 819, Please. Did anyone see last weeks Trains and Locomotives with the segment on railway Hospital cars? I especially liked the on board nurse offering a patient a pack of smokes!
Jim Harrington posted:New York Ontario & Western X Class 2-10-2 "Bullmose"
Early drag freight muscle.
In service, added sand dome, electric headlight
Erie and the "Canadian Government Railways" had similar locomotives....
Yup, I'd be game for these.
Plane cars?
Bob Bubeck posted:Sunset/3rd Rail in the past made truly lovely Electroliners and Budd RDC's in brass. I own examples of both. Along the same lines, but yet, being something a little different, I'd finally like to see and purchase Brill Bullets done in O scale.
This would be a awesome! This was going to be Walter Cameron of Western Hobbycraft's next planned product. He never got to that before his health failed. I would really enjoy seeing these made!
OK I'll add to this but I would like anyone to do it. Most of us have smaller layouts if any so our need for larger is limited to a shelf. So I propose a modern center cab. I have no picture handy, but a modern GE 80 or 110ton would seem to fit. It also does't have a lot of fancy detail and small enough to have fixed pilots.
Lee
GG1 4877 posted:Any interest in a re-run of the E7s with some upgraded tooling to get more variety in the pilots and offer some new road names and or new paint schemes on ones that have already been done? Perhaps Powered B units in 3 rail? I'm just thinking off the top of my head of some roads that might work in addition to ones that have been done already:
PRR - Keystones & stripe only
Penn Central
NYC Cigar Band
ACL
B&O and C&O late scheme
C&NW
Illinois Central
L&N
Mopac
Wabash
The tooling is 5 years old now if you can believe it. A rerun would allow for some great improvements.
I would be in for a pr. of Great Northern. I missed out on the Peterson customs from the last run.
Matt01 posted:I certainly don't want to harass the good folks at 3rd Rail. And, maybe O and HO is apples and oranges, but ....
RS-3's have been done many times in HO by various manufacturers. Recent releases by Athearn, Atlas and others. But now, Bowser has announced a new RS-3 .... very nicely done with many road name specific details.
High volume HO locomotive dealers like HogTranz are reporting record setting reservations ... that will probably make them their best ever selling diesel engine.
Just saying.
Where I buy HO stuff, The Model Railroad Shop in NJ, they're saying the same thing. This new, highly detailed RS-3 will be their biggest diesel locomotive release.
albertstrains posted:Well, here I go again.....
Scott could put me down for two of these!
3rd Rail brass. Maybe GGD aluminum or even plastic. Old K-line (not really accurate windows) are impossible to find and, based on prices, apparently made out of gold and unicorn bones.
Does Eddy Wichmann still make accurate kits?
Anyway, a nice full set and add-ons like the Harriman project would be welcome.
Then when 3rd Rail announces an E6 next year I'll buy the matching A-A pair #5005A and #5005B. (Yes an A unit was actually numbered 5005B).
A true 400.
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B&O Strata Dome / Amtrak Strata Dome
With spotlights!
VistaDomeScott posted:B&O Strata Dome / Amtrak Strata Dome
With spotlights!
B&O has been done with spotlights, I will post a pic in a day or so....
The NYO&W Mountaineer (correctly' not like that joke from MTH)
PRR HC1 #3700
Metroliners (PRR, PC, Amtrak)
PRR BP20s (given that the Weavers are so hard to find)
B&M Electric Boxcabs that ran the Hoosac Tunnel
Anything motive power that ran in the northern Connecticut River Valley (B&M, CV, RUTL, CN, CP, GT, etc...)
New England-specific passenger train sets
Wine trains (passenger & freight)
Bob Bubeck posted:Sunset/3rd Rail in the past made truly lovely Electroliners and Budd RDC's in brass. I own examples of both. Along the same lines, but yet, being something a little different, I'd finally like to see and purchase Brill Bullets done in O scale.
You can buy the shell in O from Shapeways. Then, with considerable effort and cost (I figure north of $400) you can motorize it with Q Car components, paint it, and begin a fruitless search for O scale decals. The good news is you won't have to deal with that pesky overhead.
Ask me how I know. I bought a shell back when it was resin cast. Still in my infinite queue.
P.S: I'd go for an Electroliner in Red Arrow livery. 3RD Rail made them and they are more scarce than hens' teeth
Man this has been a popular thread. Goes to show how well liked 3rdrail products really are. Keep the suggestions coming.
When it comes to the diesel engines, all are beautiful from a collectors standpoint. Operating them is a very different story. Just get rid of the absurd flanged wheels, which make operating on anything but perfectly laid track a nightmare.
REVISION
Santa Fe heavyweight chair cars. (with two different roofs: air conditioned and non-air conditioned).
. . . and . . .
Pullman-Standard 6-6-4 lightweight sleeping cars. There were 111 of these Plan 4099 lightweight, smooth-side, sleeping cars in this group - the largest order ever placed for sleeping cars - and they ran on several railroads in several liveries behind steam and diesel power after their delivery in early 1942. Early in their life they were lettered "PULLMAN" and operated in Pullman 2-tone grey. As the American series, they were operated by UPRR, C&NW, and SP in yellow (maybe also in grey during the war), on the Overland Route. SP and CRI&P operated them on the Golden State Limited. MP operated them on the Colorado Eagle. IC ran them on the Panama Limited. Erie had 4 cars operating between Chicago and New Jersey. And (Okay, it's no surprise; this is primarily why I am interested.) Santa Fe operated 26 of them, in classy 2-tone grey, as Valley series cars. I would buy at least two of these, and possibly a third to apply Tomar markers to and then use it as the tail car on my homely but proud Nos. 3 and 4. Ben Fioriello won't be able to pass up a pair of genuine Erie passenger cars. Nothing ever looked better than Missouri Pacific Eagle colors or Illinois Central orange and brown. I might even have to add an IC and an MP for a special Grand Canyon tour group, and up my order to 5. Okay, Scott, you already have 7 of them sold and they have not even been announced. Know what I mean?
These cars would make nice - and authentic - add-ons to many trains.
I'm going to get busy selling cars to make room for them.
GG1 4877 posted:Any interest in a re-run of the E7s with some upgraded tooling to get more variety in the pilots and offer some new road names and or new paint schemes on ones that have already been done? Perhaps Powered B units in 3 rail? I'm just thinking off the top of my head of some roads that might work in addition to ones that have been done already:
PRR - Keystones & stripe only
Penn Central
NYC Cigar Band
ACL
B&O and C&O late scheme
C&NW
Illinois Central
L&N
Mopac
Wabash
The tooling is 5 years old now if you can believe it. A rerun would allow for some great improvements.
I'm in for at least one powered Santa Fe E3B or E6B. Santa Fe never owned any E7's, but who can tell any external difference between an E7B and an E6B or an E3B? An E3 or E6 booster with stainless steel side panels in the consist behind one of the Sunset E8's coming soon would be just perfect. So, no "never-was" Santa Fe E7A, but an E7B pretending to be an E6B or an E3B would be very nice.
Here is a loco that could be a best seller. The photo is from MA & PA but these locos were used everywhere and from the turn of the century to the end of steam.
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Dj'sOgaugetrains posted:VistaDomeScott posted:B&O Strata Dome / Amtrak Strata Dome
With spotlights!
B&O has been done with spotlights, I will post a pic in a day or so....
Looking forward to seeing this!!!!!
Number 90 posted:REVISION
Santa Fe heavyweight chair cars. (with two different roofs: air conditioned and non-air conditioned).
. . . and . . .
Pullman-Standard 6-6-4 lightweight sleeping cars. There were 111 of these Plan 4099 lightweight, smooth-side, sleeping cars in this group - the largest order ever placed for sleeping cars - and they ran on several railroads in several liveries behind steam and diesel power after their delivery in early 1942. Early in their life they were lettered "PULLMAN" and operated in Pullman 2-tone grey. As the American series, they were operated by UPRR, C&NW, and SP in yellow (maybe also in grey during the war), on the Overland Route. SP and CRI&P operated them on the Golden State Limited. MP operated them on the Colorado Eagle. IC ran them on the Panama Limited. Erie had 4 cars operating between Chicago and New Jersey. And (Okay, it's no surprise; this is primarily why I am interested.) Santa Fe operated 26 of them, in classy 2-tone grey, as Valley series cars. I would buy at least two of these, and possibly a third to apply Tomar markers to and then use it as the tail car on my homely but proud Nos. 3 and 4. Ben Fioriello won't be able to pass up a pair of genuine Erie passenger cars. Nothing ever looked better than Missouri Pacific Eagle colors or Illinois Central orange and brown. I might even have to add an IC and an MP for a special Grand Canyon tour group, and up my order to 5. Okay, Scott, you already have 7 of them sold and they have not even been announced. Know what I mean?
These cars would make nice - and authentic - add-ons to many trains.
I'm going to get busy selling cars to make room for them.
A run of Pullman 6-6-4 sleepers would be great, much like the Pullman 4-4-2 and 10-6 sleepers Scott did a few years back. Santa Fe would be a hit. It would be great to have these released in all the roads that ran these plus maybe some railroads that didn't.... like pennsy, NYC, northern pacific and so on.
I'm still ll hoping to find some add on cars to the Powhatan Arrow set - even some plain N&W coaches and sleepers would be fine. If Scott could do a small run count me in for at least 3 cars.
And of course I am holding on to hope for a Tennessean set!!
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Coincidentally, I just looked in a 1954 Official Guide, and verified that one of the 6-6-4's was assigned as the through Los Angeles to Minneapolis Pullman on the City of Los Angeles (to Omaha), connecting to the Omaha Road North American.
We rode a round trip on the through car that year, and I remember distinctly that the car we rode eastbound was lettered for UP and the one we rode westbound was lettered for C&NW.
One again the perennial request. I know Scott tried this once but I am seeing more interest here for New York central.
H10b
K5b
Pete
I 2nd Nortons sentiments on NYC H10.I could go for one also
Grande L-105!
VistaDomeScott posted:Dj'sOgaugetrains posted:VistaDomeScott posted:B&O Strata Dome / Amtrak Strata Dome
With spotlights!
B&O has been done with spotlights, I will post a pic in a day or so....
Looking forward to seeing this!!!!!
These are crappy cell phone shots that don't really do the car justice. The spot lights work and are a really nice touch. This car was part of the GGD Colombian set released a few years back. Hope you like 
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Norton posted:One again the perennial request. I know Scott tried this once but I am seeing more interest here for New York central.
H10b
K5b
Pete
I would be in for both. My first preference would be the K5b.
PRR K2sa. While the K4s has been done to death as much as I like them, the K2s fulfilled an important role in secondary service prior to WWII.
As an aside, Bowser did a decent NYC K5 in HO when the super detail kit was added. One of the few Bowser models I don't have.
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How about a Pennsy Torpedo! That streamlined K4 should be a real hit. What a linup:the S1,the Torpedo, the streamlined Q1,and the first T1 .
Norm
Sorry norm but you can still find lots of the weaver, MTH #3768 streamliners as well as the Williams #1120 streamliners. If anything the Williams version should be done with the updated sound systems and radio control.
However I rather place my hard earned dollars to gg14877 suggestions of the K2/K3 or K5!
GG1 4877 posted:PRR K2sa. While the K4s has been done to death as much as I like them, the K2s fulfilled an important role in secondary service prior to WWII.
As an aside, Bowser did a decent NYC K5 in HO when the super detail kit was added. One of the few Bowser models I don't have.
Is it possible to take a perfectly good K4 and beat it into a reasonable facsimile of a K2?
While we're hankering for non-likely-to-be-made models, I'd really go for a L&N M1 2-8-4.
DJ'SOGAUGETRAINS,
Great looking car! I have the Lionel Columbian set which is very nice, but of course GGD got it exact! Did they also do the other B&O more simplified scheme with yellow? Amtrak version?
I am in for a rerun in Amtrak phase One !
