@bob3 posted:What sells is the key. I’d buy a nice X-29 (actually I’d prefer a nice X-25), but as you note there is no market for a $500 brass X-29 when the choices you mention, and a Grabowski version, are “out there”
While I do not buy items outside of my period of interest - I cheer their availability - as they hopefully sell, and show potential manufactures there is a marketplace / there is a reason to invest in o scale (Yawns / negativity are not helpful in attracting new manufacturers)
Dearest Pat O'boyle, may he rest in peace, was going to do an x25. It always amazes me that most every train consist video up through the sixties, no matter what part of the country, always had a string of cars with a lowly x29 stuffed in it. But common things tend not to garner deep interests and most folks don't look at the details close enough to care.
I'm not a modern era modeler but if it comes out and sells I'm all for it.
These tank cars sound sweet.
