1. Kadee offer a variety of trucks...freight and passenger...in keeping with their quality of the same in HO and large scale.
2. Aftermarket roof walks for 40' and 50' boxcars...et alia...that are see-through, prototypical to various steel/grid styles used up to the time they were ruled out by the FRA. Like the ones on premium cars by Atlas, MTH, Lionel, Intermountain, to name a few. Most of our (1:48) train viewing is bird/drone/plane vantage. Rolling stock, even-or-especially the crummiest, most weathered, graffiti'd, or derelict of all, deserves this bit of celebratory respect! (IMHO, of course)
3. Extruded plastic (Styrene or ABS) code rail molded in a 'rust' color with which to add track guard rails on bridges and trestles, be cut to 39' lengths for stationary or MOW rolling stock rail racks, to lie in l-o-n-g lengths along existing right-of-way in mock anticipation of installation by the MOW crew, to be made into welded-rail bumpers that don't short circuit sidings, to be easily fashioned into dummy turnouts to justify that permanently-parked rolling stock on the siding (ala, Roadside America layout, et al.), ....etc., etc., etc..
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I can't help myself...these additional two are bunched too close to "the top 3 items"...
4. A variety of scale, operating, lighted wig-wag crossing signals as were so popular throughout this country, more so within the haunts of certain flags.
5. Serious focus on 'Dead Rail'...All areas...from components, packaging, installations, DIY's, to encouragement and intellectual/emotional support. It will be very embarrassing to have this concept take firm root and find lasting success in the HO branch of the hobby before the next logical application...O scale...has led in its further development. (again....IMHO, of course)
Break time....'nuf said.
KD
