Why not just buy one of the others and repaint it and re letter it?
Yesterday I went to TCA HQ to pickup my preorder of 70 Strasburg Snowplows. Picture below. 🙂
While I was there a team of volunteers packed up everyone's orders.
Stu
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@NOT LionelLLC posted:Yesterday I went to TCA HQ to pickup my preorder of 70 Strasburg Snowplows. Picture below. 🙂
While I was there a team of volunteers packed up everyone's orders.
Stu
Are the 70 sold? Or still available?
Great picture Stu.
Mine arrived today - no tracking email, though.
Beautifully done!
One minor shortcoming - due to the light weight, short wheelbase, and body mounted coupler, the rear truck derails very easily when the plow is being pushed (on O72 curves). I'm going to think about adding some weight to see if it helps. In any case, most of these will probably spend most of their time sitting on a siding waiting for a snowstorm rather than being pushed around the layout.
Mine just arrived. Very nice. Well done TCA and Atlas.
a caution when opening or repacking. It’s a very tight fit back into the styrofoam cradle. I left the plastic bag off.
Got mine today. Thank you Chris and Stu for making this project happen.
Neal Jeter
@Lyinel posted:Are the 70 sold? Or still available?
From what I understand they were sold out shortly after being announced. When asked about producing another run, Stu responded "Stu has a plan". I'd suggest keeping an eye out if a second run is produced.
I got mine yesterday as well. It is definitely light in weight, but I'm probably going to keep this sitting on a siding anyhow. I was joking with my brother about using it to snowplow the driveway if snow ever arrives, but said we'll need to lay some tracks to get the plowing done.
Great job Stu, Chris and to all involved. It looks amazing in pictures and spot on. I missed out by a day or two to order. I did get the CN livery and it came out fantastic also. Owning a few of the past MTH versions, I see that Atlas has added detail parts and done a fantastic job with paint and graphics. Great to still have this model in production thanks to Atlas. I didn't see in the trend, but for all the Strasburg fans, yes it seems like everything Strasburg is selling out in O gauge! A lot of us are going to have to model the new Strasburg 6-track yard, (see Trains.com), on our layouts! Train World has a pre-order exclusive for the MTH gondola type snowplow, not sure when pre-order date is up.
@Mallard4468 posted:Mine arrived today - no tracking email, though.
Beautifully done!
One minor shortcoming - due to the light weight, short wheelbase, and body mounted coupler, the rear truck derails very easily when the plow is being pushed (on O72 curves). I'm going to think about adding some weight to see if it helps. In any case, most of these will probably spend most of their time sitting on a siding waiting for a snowstorm rather than being pushed around the layout.
Definitely add weight to it. I have one of the original Russel Plows from MTH and it's super light weight.
Here's your opportunity to get the last one that TCA has:
https://www.tcatrains.org/product-category/train-car/
https://www.tcatrains.org/prod...low-last-one-raffle/
Stu
Well, that's one way to make money! Hope you sell a lot of raffle tickets.
