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Folks,

 

Steam: I would love to see a Denver&Rio Grande Western L-77 2-6-6-0 beein produced in the near future. This really would make my day!

 

And some smaller steam such as a D&RGW C-48 or one of the last standard gauge D&RGW engines, such as 4-6-0 No. 784.

 

Diesel: A Alco S-2 would be awesome. Atlas folks: you already have it in smaller scale. Just give us a O-scale 2-Rail model of the S-2, and please please please: A Rio Grande version of it, though...

 

Cheers, Tom

 

 

I'm with Chip R........oh please, please, someone, a Colorado & Southern 2-10-2 (#900, 902, or 903) with auxililiary tender! Toss in Texas & Pacific/Chicago Great Western 2-10-4, Canadian National 2-6-0, Central Vermont 2-10-4. 

        Now, returning to the "real world", I am very appreciative of Sunset 3rd Rail proposing the Burlington O1a 2-8-2. Have 2 reservations in.

Everything posted is fine but...a locomotive is only as good as its guts and mtors

 

Contemporary railroads now use even the big 6-axle locos on branch lines AND switching so my big want would be:

 

NOTHING PRODUCED O SCALE 2 RAIL WITHOUT HORIZONTAL DRIVE SYSTEM AND/OR GEARING SO IT CAN OPERATE PROTOTYPICAL AT A  SWITCHING CRAWL AS WELL AS ON THE MAINLINE RUNNING.

 

Atlas prides itself as The Future of O Scale; the future of O scale is to have mechanisms that operate as smoothly and perfectly as my HO and N (!!!). Vertical drives, jerky acceleration/deceleration and poor slow speed capability is not the future of O scale. Because of this, my entry into O scale 2 rail branch/switching is becoming extremely touch-and-go having to cherry pick from a very limited roster of older models. 

I too think an SD40-2 would be a great engine to build but like mentioned maybe problems putting the super over a China drive. Atlas already did the SD40 and think it would be an easier change over but I am not building them. Lionel adn MTH don't do the superstructures well enough and from what I have seen they sit too high on the trucks. Just be nice if Atlas worked on releasing a engine model once a year, period. Still waiting for the dash 8 40CW. since in the catalog in 2010.

Originally Posted by PatKelly:

Everything posted is fine but...a locomotive is only as good as its guts and mtors

 

Contemporary railroads now use even the big 6-axle locos on branch lines AND switching so my big want would be:

 

NOTHING PRODUCED O SCALE 2 RAIL WITHOUT HORIZONTAL DRIVE SYSTEM AND/OR GEARING SO IT CAN OPERATE PROTOTYPICAL AT A  SWITCHING CRAWL AS WELL AS ON THE MAINLINE RUNNING.

 

Atlas prides itself as The Future of O Scale; the future of O scale is to have mechanisms that operate as smoothly and perfectly as my HO and N (!!!). Vertical drives, jerky acceleration/deceleration and poor slow speed capability is not the future of O scale. Because of this, my entry into O scale 2 rail branch/switching is becoming extremely touch-and-go having to cherry pick from a very limited roster of older models. 

I agree with your post 100%!! This concept as well as buying immediately when something is released or taking the chance you'll never get it,is discouraging coming from HO,where the market is more friendly. But this is O scale & these are some of the ugly trade offs. The market is much smaller than HO & N & growing smaller with increases in prices all the time & modelers restricted to apartments rather than houses with ample room. I face this challenge every day in my decision-"O or HO"-that is the question!

It's a balance of the trade offs,(differences),in the 2 scales that we have to decide if we can live with when the "dust" settles. The Verticle motors as the gentlemen here explained to me,comes from Lionel & followed with other companies, to accommodate the sharp curve demands of 3 rail diesels. So,since 3 rail is the leader in O scale sales as most modelers are 3railers,this can't be expected to change.

I know EXACTLY what you're saying & where you're coming from. The lack of modern couplers is something I as well as other modern modelers desire,but with most modelers in steam in O scale,that's not likely to be seen either.It's a "build your own," scale as many can tell you,or put up with what's out there.

 

I came to O without doing my homework 1st,expecting to have everything in O scale I had in HO & maybe more because of the increase in size-not so. A painful reality as O scale has SO MUCH MORE to offer because of the size not found in other scales.

 

Just my 2 cents.

Al Hummel

I'm a 3R guy by default (if I was getting into the hobby again it would be 2R) but a lot of these projects come about only because of the number of 2R and 3R engines ordered, so I'll speak up.
 
I would LOVE to see some new Reading steam locomotives made.  I have a Weaver G1 and SGL G3 to pull passenger trains, but really nothing (steam wise) to pull my coal trains.  Kind of ironic given the Reading's history in hauling coal!
 
The T-1 just doesn't float my boat, and I'm not really interested in the N-1.  I would really love to have a pair of 2-8-0's to pull a long string of coal cars!
 
That said, Rex, if you can get Scot to have 3rd Rail build the K1, I'm in for a 3R version!!!
 

 

Reading K1 2-10-2

 

Reading I10 2-8-0

 

 

 

 

 

jd-train said:

I have a Weaver G1 and SGL G3 to pull passenger trains,

I have a G#, but no authentic passenger cars. What do you use?

That said, Rex, if you can get Scot to have 3rd Rail build the K1, I'm in for a 3R version!!!

Well, that would be two of us. Scott made the B&O P7d in a run of 50, which is, I suppose, a minimum number. So all we need is 48 more guys

I'm thinking if one wants an I-10, one could start with a cannibalized 2-8-0 chassis and build up the superstructure from scratch. I have a friend whose hankering for a B&O E-27 2-8-0 led him down that very garden path (well,  he also scratchbuilt the frame.). The entire superstructure is fabricated from PVC pipe and ABS/styrene, plus brass jewelry and piping. It can be done. Depends on the degree of lust

Rex,

 

I still need a set of heavyweights to use with the G1.

 

The G3 model is a model imported by SGL.  SGL Lines was a company that was formed by an enthusiast of the Reading who only imported a brass G3 and matching brass passenger cars. The sets are from 2002/3.

 

The SGL G3 was offered in both 2R and 3R and I've seen two different numbered engines come up for sale on eBay. 

 

There were two different sets of passengers cars (both in 2R and 3R) offered: The Schuylkill and King Coal sets.  Both sets are 5 car sets with different numbers and interiors for each set.  There were also two car sets to match each 5 car set.  The sets occasionally come up for sale on eBay, usually at a great price, considering these are brass.

 

I have the Schuylkill 5 car set.  Still looking for the matching 2 car set at a good price.

 

Jim

SGL Lines imported models of the first and last G3 Pacifics (210 and 219) and two sets of 2000-series semistreamlined ("blimp") cars. Seats with blue upholstery represented the KING COAL (Philly-Shamokin) and the WALL STREET (Philly-Jersey City Terminal, with ferry connection to Manhattan); red upholstery, the SCHUYLKILL (Philly-Pottsville).

 

Late in the steam era, the Reading used small tenders from retired steamers as auxiliary water cars ("jugs"). The late George Hart used a Taylor tender from a Camelback as a "jug" for Reading Shop Switcher 0-6-0 1251 on excusions onb the Ma & Pa. No. 1251 is now displayed in The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania at Strasburg. The Reading & Northern uses that "jug" for "The Four-and-a-Quarter" (425). Her original "jug" was a Pennsy tender. The Reading tender is slightly smaller and fits on the Jersey Central turntable at Jim Thorpe with 425. The Pennsy "jug" had to be turned separately.

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This is the Pennsy tender. The coal compartment is intact.

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Originally Posted by ReadingFan:

SGL Lines imported models of the first and last G3 Pacifics (210 and 219) and two sets of 2000-series semistreamlined ("blimp") cars. Seats with blue upholstery represented the KING COAL (Philly-Shamokin) and the WALL STREET (Philly-Jersey City Terminal, with ferry connection to Manhattan); red upholstery, the SCHUYLKILL (Philly-Pottsville).

 

Late in the steam era, the Reading used small tenders from retired steamers as auxiliary water cars ("jugs"). The late George Hart used a Taylor tender from a Camelback as a "jug" for Reading Shop Switcher 0-6-0 1251 on excusions onb the Ma & Pa. No. 1251 is now displayed in The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania at Strasburg. The Reading & Northern uses that "jug" for "The Four-and-a-Quarter" (425). Her original "jug" was a Pennsy tender. The Reading tender is slightly smaller and fits on the Jersey Central turntable at Jim Thorpe with 425. The Pennsy "jug" had to be turned separately.

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This is the Pennsy tender. The coal compartment is intact.

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In the 1st picture,is a modern switchstand that would add a lot to O scale in modern times,but would also be fantastic offered with counterweights of different shapes,found all across the USA,in the eastern half of the US especially. These switchstands with the counterweights,were used over a much longer period of time,starting in the steam era,right into the early 90s,when "Backsafer,Bow handles" were substituted in place of the low counterweight handles,to give greater leverage for a crewman & also providing less strain to a crewman's back,not having to bend so far down towards the ground.

Al Hummel

Originally Posted by Keystoned Ed:
 PRR D16sb 4-4-0:  Hasn't been done since Max Gray imported a few 50 years ago (perhaps the rarest PRR brass model)

Yes.  Odd absence of this engine not being imported again given the ubiquitous nature and long life span, yet also being fairly desirable.  I would however prefer an early D16b version suitable for the CVRR, but if taking an sb gets them made, I'd still be willing to buy at least 1.

I think the possible sales demand for this engine is underestimated.  It's not just a Santa Fe passenger engine.  More importantly it is the first transcontinental diesel passenger engine.  If any manufacturer was to undertake the project they should also include the related boxcabs like the EMC demos, and the B&O #50.

 

I've posted this before on the 3 rail forums and there is always some demand.

 

I'm aware the the colors used in this print are disputed.  Perhaps Division Point had it correct with their HO model. 

 

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I'd like to see a "modern" 4-4-0...one with the appliances, pilot and appearance of a 1920-1930 era locomotive.  Both C&IM and Katy used them up to the '50s and the end of their passenger service.  Thomas made one way back in the 1950's that was close, but still kept the huge cowcatcher (sorry, pilot).  They're hard to find, though and pricey.

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