Reply to "Hey Pennsylvania Railroad Fans, what locos would you like to see made/ or remade again?"

GG1 4877 posted:

CAPPilot posted:

prrhorseshoecurve posted:

The head end cars I would like to see is the re-issue of Weaver's B60b baggage.  Who has this tooling?

Ron
TCA, TTOS, NCT, LCCA

I believe that would be Atlas O since it was a foreign made car.

Thank you.

May be off topic, but a question on the RPO version of the Weaver B60.  Were there any prototype PRR RPO cars like this ever made, or is this a fantasy car?  I have not found any data on a PRR 60' RPO.

If the Weaver RPO was based on a real car, then I'd like to see those produced again too.

Hi Ron,

The PRR did not have an RPO based on the B60.  PRR's closest equivalent was the M70 RPO based off the P70 cars.  however  Weaver 60' RPO is correct for the most part for the Norfolk and Western. 

Jonathan,

Thank you.  I was pretty sure that was a fantasy car.

I guess at this point the only prototype PRR RPO available in O gauge is the GGD BM70.  Checking my books, the GGD RPO looks like a BM70k due to only 3 closely spaced windows per side.  I have several of these GGD models and need to change the car number on most of them since GGD only did two numbers.

So, to add to the list of PRR items I want is a different version of the BM70.  GGD should be able to do a BM70ka with a modification of their current mold.  A BM70m with multiple windows per side would be nice too and looks a lot different than the BM70k.