I recently read a review in the 2014 December issue of Model Railroad News magazine about the HO scale Hornby/Rivarossi U25C. It says at the end of the article that the next HO loco that Hornby/Rivarossi is bringing out is the U28C Phase l which is the same as the U25C Phase lll except the CB&Q offering will have a split windshield.The only other road name being released at the time of the published article will be Northern Pacific. So, it only make since that this could possibly be the next N scale loco released from Hornby/Arnold? gene maddox
I would say that the U28C Phase I is simply a second run of the existing U25C --- and not really a 'new' locomotive. Here is a link to a Trainboard thread with a clue about the second locomotive - http://www.trainboard.com/grapevine...3-Arnold-Hornby-GE-U25C&p=1013017#post1013017
H Lee, yes it is a rerelease but still has a different name and a different variation to it with the split windshield, after all you could say the same thing about all of the F3's that Kato released through the years with all of the different phases and yes I already read the other thread on the U28C. I was just passing along information that I read in the magazine. gm
The U28C does seem like the logical follow-up. I would guess there would be a lot of folks interested in an RSD-15 though.
I will say the same thing - Kato never announced any of the F3's that you selected as NEW locomotives. You are certainly free to have/express the opinion that a new windshield qualifies as a new locomotive. Just as I am free to have/express the opinion that it does not. And if C Vlk's comments are anywhere near correct about the 'the prototype covers almost all the railroads that you’d want, and that it will take decades to work through the “A” list of roadnames' by no stretch of the imagination does the U25C PIII/U28C PI fit that description!!!!!
Here's another clue to ponder - Charlie said that the tooling includes variations that have never been done in any scale. Cheers, -Mark
OK, I'll bite. Has anyone done a GP7 or GP9 with B units? I would think these would certainly qualify as new tooling variation in N scale and covers the it'll take a long time to do all the roadnames. Or maybe low nose versions of the GP9 or high hood versions of some other GP's for the NW/NS/SOU fans. Are these going to be announced at the Amherst show? Am I warm on any of these guesses? Thanks, Scott
Or . . . a Fairbanks-Morse H10-44/H12-44/H12-46 (Canadian) in all the cab variations, from the original Loewy version through the more mundane later versions. Some version of the FM switcher was used by nearly everyone, and while they certainly have been done in HO, I'm not sure that the Canadian version has ever been done by anyone, nor ALL the variations on the cab. But . . . this is probably crazy. I don't see the next offering being a switcher. A popular road unit is a more likely bet. John C.
If you would go back and read my original post, I never mentioned anything about what Charlie Vlk posted, you did that, I was only referring to the article in the magazine, not the post that Charlie put out there and thank you for letting me have an opinon also!!!!!!!!!!!
And if C Vlk's comments are anywhere near correct about the 'the prototype covers almost all the railroads that you’d want, and that it will take decades to work through the “A” list of roadnames' That sounds like an SD40-2 to me
I just don't see them going head-to-head with both Kato and Intermountain on those (even if the IM's are still just theoretical at this point). Cheers, -Mark
Its the long awaited Pennsy steam (insert wheel arrangement here) for the long suffering Pennsy modelers.
There were sure a lot of Sd40-2 made, but they weren't owned by that many railroads, (30+). I think if it's going to take decades to do all the road names then were looking at a lot more, 60-80, maybe?
