Our second car is the PS-4000 Covered Hopper! This is unlike any hopper car produced in N Scale currently... - Features • Ready-To-Run • Injection-Molded Plastic • Fine-Scale Detail • Chemically Etched Roof Walk • Chemically Etched Coupler Platform • Accurately Painted/Printed • Prototypical Ride Height • Etched-Metal Brake Platform • ALL-NEW 100-Ton ASF Ride Control Trucks • ALL-NEW Scale Profile Metal Wheels • Body-Mounted Micro-Trains Couplers • Three Numbers per Scheme! And, our ALL-NEW 100Ton Truck w/Metal Wheels will be offered separately as well... (and a 70-Ton truck is coming too!) Also, due in mid-2010 - 200' All-Brass Camel Back Truss Bridges: Read more on our newsletter here: BLMA Models Newsletter
Yepper Craig, got my eye on a few of those SP Hoppers. Keep up the good work. Think you could convince Henry to put out a GP Loco??? Huh? Huh?:tb-biggrin: The SD40-2 is Outstanding, Glen
:tb-ooh::thumbs_up::tb-biggrin: !! I love the features in bold. This is just what so many of us have been talking about and asking for on this forum and others. I'm going to have to go in for one or two of these hoppers even though I am broke. Also, I love how the bolster on the trucks sits below the top of the truck sideframes. I have been wishing for this for a while to deal with some of my stack cars. It will give lots of modelers an additional option for adjusting ride height to their liking. Craig shows N scale the way again...
WOW, I had been thinking about doing this to a MT truck but never got around to trying it. This truck just could be the solution for our high riders.:thumbs_up:
These cars finally bring everything together and take N scale out of the 1960's pizza cutter, truck mounted coupler, toy train set thinking and give us what HO modelers have come to expect as standard. Good one BMLA, I'll be ordering some. One question though, will the wheels be chemically blackened?
Craig and BLMA do it again! Every time a new release comes out like this it pushes the N Scale bar higher. This one has pushed it to were it should have been years ago. Body mounted couplers, awesome scale trucks, just fantastic! I hope other manufacturers are watching....this is where N Scale should be! Thanks again Craig for definately giving us the 'Best Looking Models Around!'
Nice stuff! Somewhere deep in my mind the thought of converting to metal wheels is stirring. How about some of those solar panels I see so much by the tracks these days?
Freight cars and bridges and trucks, OH MY!!! Craig, when the (N Scale) roller bearings rotate, then your the man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chuck has them listed at Feather River Trains for $19.50, I guess not a bad price considering I won't have to replace the couplers and wheels. I think I'll be putting in an order, I don't think these will stay on the shelves long.
For a minute I thought you were sneaking HO scale model pics in here.......that car and those trucks look sweet! Sadly, no place for that bridge on my layout, but I CAN make room for those coverd hoppers somewhere.................:tb-wink: Nice work!
WOW, the trucks are amazing!!! Are the wheels like FVM? Should I get rid of the FVM??? are they waaay different or the same about? WOW the trucks on about everything will eventually need replacing I have since the MTL trucks were 70T... WOW :messed: Well I guess I have prototype-itis!!! WOW...
Ordered myself some of the hoppers frim Chuck today so am looking forward to receivinf them when they are released
