3rd Rail Wishlist Request Future Engines

I wouldn't hold my breath for many steam announcements in the future.  Can't get anyone to agree on 75 models of the same type and the old PRR, NYC, ATSF, UP guarantee of interest just doesn't work anymore.  Perhaps some select models at the $5k price point where only 25 in 3r and 25 in 2r will be made like the latest Allegheny with detail extraordinaire. 

Equally disappointed as anyone else as I'd like a few steam locomotives that have never been done right in O, HO, or N.

In my case a few Pacifics to be specific.

Aberdeen, Carolina & Western (https://www.acwr.com/rolling-s...cwr-6909-emd-sd-40-3)

@GG1 4877 posted:

I wouldn't hold my breath for many steam announcements in the future.  Can't get anyone to agree on 75 models of the same type....

I agree that doing a steam engine used by only one railroad may not be economically feasible.  This is why they need to do a steamer used by more than one road like the USRA Heavy Santa Fe 2-10-2.  Five roads had it: Bessemer and Lake Erie; Chicago, Burlington and Quincy; Erie; Colorado and Southern; and Pennsylvania.  Since they would be brass I would hope Sunset could also do both the as built PRR engine as well as the later PRR modifications to the engine (Belpaire firebox and smokebox front). 

@CAPPilot posted:

I agree that doing a steam engine used by only one railroad may not be economically feasible.  This is why they need to do a steamer used by more than one road like the USRA Heavy Santa Fe 2-10-2.  Five roads had it: Bessemer and Lake Erie; Chicago, Burlington and Quincy; Erie; Colorado and Southern; and Pennsylvania.  Since they would be brass I would hope Sunset could also do both the as built PRR engine as well as the later PRR modifications to the engine (Belpaire firebox and smokebox front).

A good idea.  Personally, Lines West PRR doesn't interest me nearly as much, but that is just me.  I know, not helping with the magic 75 number!

Pennsylvania R1 electric.
Brass C&O M1 turbine.

@GG1 4877 posted:

I wouldn't hold my breath for many steam announcements in the future.  Can't get anyone to agree on 75 models of the same type and the old PRR, NYC, ATSF, UP guarantee of interest just doesn't work anymore.  Perhaps some select models at the $5k price point where only 25 in 3r and 25 in 2r will be made like the latest Allegheny with detail extraordinaire.

Equally disappointed as anyone else as I'd like a few steam locomotives that have never been done right in O, HO, or N.

In my case a few Pacifics to be specific.

It’s so disheartening for those of us wanting something NOT !!! PRR NYC ATSF UP !!!!!!!!   And I don’t think there is a big market for $5K offerings. I think this tells me the secondary market will become more important and we most likely won’t see anything new. Perhaps there can be Some hope if say common USRA designs can be utilized (Lots of Roads !!!) with odds n ends add-on details for different roads. Surely there’s some engines - say like Mikados - that are Really close between different roads that could “fly”.  I would hope !!!!
I hate to say it but I might have to be “satisfied” with generic Lionel/K-line models for MP, TP, Frisco, MKT.

Has anyone asked for L&N 2-8-4 or is there not enough interest in one?  I don't think one has ever been done in O gauge.

Another run of  #475 N&W Mollie's. I have been looking for a long time for one in 3 rail.

To touch on CAPPilot’s earlier comment, the Florida East Coast’s 400 class 4-8-2s later had several other owners, such as the Western Pacific, the Cotton Belt, the Western Railway of Alabama, the Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast, and the Nacionales de Mexico, but I’m not sure there would be enough money-waving interest in the O scale market to make production of models economically justifiable.