Modern Refer w/cutouts for the refrigeration unit 4,427 cuft PS2 3-bay hopper TTX Unilevel Auto-transport (TTUX) what else?
oh yea ... Gunderson 73' drop-deck centerbeam cars http://www.gbrx.com/PDFtecbulletins/GenFreight73CPDropDeck.pdf
GP60M & GP60B CF7 C415 C430 RSD15 Sulphur tanks Hi & Lo-side ore hoppers like Athearn is making for SP & UP in HO (Also close enough to work for ATSF) Liquid Oxygen tanks (the current type w/o domes).
How about some more 89'4" flat cars. Look what a MT 89'4" or the old Allen Curtis cars cost. Lots and lots of bethgons. No new long flat cars and where are the spline cars that have been promised :thumbs_down:
Definitely the CF7 and RSD15, but add FM and Alco switchers. Also how about an F9? Intermountain? While you're at it how about F7's in the blue/yellow freight warbonnet scheme?
ModernHoppers These ... apparently Canpotex owns 8,600 of them. We see a couple of unit trains a day passing through Calgary on the way to the West Coast. The cars are built by National Steel Car - not sure if they have been purchased for other uses / users.
Maybe Atlas will finally tackle an updated GP50 ...20 years after Kato's release. most of the stuff I've been asking for over the years has finally made it to the drawing board or into production: B30-7, B23-7, U23B, and now the GP15 (all post kit-bash - arrg.) We still need a mid-production SD40-2 w/o DB (like the one in my avatar).
YES ! bring em on Kato... ...and we need modern Iron Ore cars ! (Athearn, Bowser, BLMA, FoxValley, anyone listening here... ?)
Amen to that. SPINE CARS AND 89' TOFC FLATS. Deluxe, are you ever going to produce yours, or are they just to tease us? More commercially available semi trucks. Freightliners especially. Make my model has a good selection of KW's. 53,48, 45' chassis. Modern mountain bike riders. I've got a line on a guy who says he can make these, but he's too busy making other stuff to try it yet. Modern strip mall type buildings. Most of the N scale buildings available are 50 years old. A decent modern gas station. How about manufacturers actually PRODUCE WHAT THEY PROMISE? Like Micro Engineering, Ribbonrail, and Deluxe? If you can't make a product come to market in 90 days, don't even announce it. And if you have a certain product that you know is in high demand(ME trestle kits), please, make more than one run a year. Sorry, the ordeal it took me to get my Ribbonrail guages, trying to find an M.E. trestle kit, and the Deluxe spine car announcement two or three years ago that still hasn't made it to market yet has left a bad taste in my mouth.
Would be better done by Atlas, they'd do more roadnames/numbers quicker than Kato as well as more road specific variations and details.
I'll limit mine to one loco and one piece of rolling stock: 1) BNSF Dash-9. The most common loco west of the Mississippi, and it basically already exists, but isn't in production. I'll even take it as an undec, but it has to have the BNSF trimmings... Hello, Kato? 2) A good modern gondola. But I want one that is constructed with thin metal sides (laminated to a cast frame) that could be easily "distressed" as per prototype practice. I nominate BLMA to chart this territory. -Gary Ok - since rolling stock is so much more abundant than locos, I get one more pick: a modern steel coil car - the Red Caboose units are decent, but barely available. Someone already said LPG tanker, so that doesn't count against my quota. BTW, did someone already say (Kato) GEVO's?
details as working ditch lights you mean, right... ? I'm not a prehistoric modeler so I'm looking for the more modern stuff...
Athearn, especially, since they have the licensing to Mack trucks. http://www.macktrucks.com/default.aspx?pageid=48
I'd like to see more modern 89' flats and spine and/or impack cars. Peterbuilts and Volvo's would be nice. And any tractor/trailer done in Carolina Freight or a Carotrans container.
I would like Atlas to do working ditchlight on there modern locos like Kato has already done for the past 10 years would be nice. Some modern reefer, depressed center HD flats, spine cars and 89 foot flat cars would be nice.
In contrast to all of this modern stuff::::::::::::::: 1. Sectional street trackage, ESPECIALLY #4 turnouts (or even sharper--do they have #3s or #2s?). 2. Red brick buildings with octagonal cupolas, much like what you find in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia and Virginia. 3. A 'modern' ten wheeler 4. A decently operating heavy pacific 5. Decently operating US prototype trolley car 6. Wood cabooses (only a limited selection) 7. Decently operating ALCo yard goats (the Arnold is dated by to-day's standards) 8. Baldwin road switcher 9. Decently operating nineteenth century eight-wheeler 10. Nineteenth century ten-wheeler 11. Nineteenth century gondolas/hoppers 12. Nineteenth century tank cars.
