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Really?? How do all the HO & N scale layouts that are 2-rail and have balloon tracks manage?? Judging by many of the comments I see from 3-rail guys, anyone would think these smaller scales, that work perfectly well in 2-rail, had never been invented!!??!!

I'll repeat what I would like to see in 2-rail - an affordable (i.e. not brass) EMD/Santa Fe CF7, and modern (post-1980) rolling stock - ARMN Reefers, etc. I have 2-railed some MTH Premier 50ft high-cubes with Atlas R/B trucks and they look great.

Exactly, I wonder how the HO and N communities exist with dead rail without...

The ARMN reefers are one of the Cars I tried to talk Scott Mann into doing along with 53' spine cars.  And yes the MTH 50' high cubes are very nice.  I have several I'm lengthening into 60' cars.

Beth brought up modified tooling.  Scale Rails has videos on Youtube on how they use modifiable tooling in HO.  But I don't know what is possible.  If Atlas could modify their 53' articulated well car tooling into a standalone version I would get those.  If they could modify their tooling to make 40' versions both articulated and standalone I would get those.  A big one for me would be for Atlas to take their Husky Stack tooling and cut off the ends to make Maxi Stack Is.  How about Atlas modifying their MP15 tooling to make an SW1500.  Its what was asked for in the first place.  It seemed time and time again people would ask for something when Atlas had a forum, like, oh say, a GP40, and Atlas would respond with something strange and unusual that was not as widely wanted.  Again, not holding my breath.

Like I said, make things that people can go down to the tracks and watch (with their children and grandchildren) and more people will be interested.  With the death of so many hobby shops how many remaining are also Amazon shops.  That's where people find things today.  Or Ebay.  I found a company on Ebay in Hong Kong that makes great contemporary 20' and 40' 1/48 scale containers but only in 6 liveries.  Not the old ones Atlas copied from Pecos River Brass that haven't been seen in the real world in 20+ years.  In HO and N this company makes many more liveries available and also additional types and styles of containers.  I told them if they make more in 1/48 I'll be buying.

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