Can leave Kato out! Some curve track to parallel the 19 and 28 1/4 radius, Some long straight tracks 2 - 3 foot would be nice. Don
For the longer straight tracks, keep it in sizes that make sense for their home market, 310mm and 620mm, the sizes of the single and double t-trak modules which are big in the homeland.
I just came on to start this thread !!! Ha,ha,ha !!! I know many want SD38-2s. Hasn't been announced, but it WILL happen... as soon as the Dullcote dries on my converted SD40-2s !!! I would like older, corrugated bi-level cars. VERY hard to find the old Concor cars. A complete Penn Central passenger train would be VERY cool !!! Of course, they would HAVE to do a few more Western trains if they did that. One of them could be Rock Island !!! Would love to see their take on F/FP45s. Alco C636s would complete my list. No use in including Alco C415 in the Kato section.
I built a SD38 so I don't need them to make that anymore, but I wouldn't mine seeing some correct NS C44-9Ws. I don't mind cutting up UP and SP ones to correct the headlight and other details but if Kato can save me that step I'm all for it. A retooled GP50 wouldn't be bad either.
Should anyone be paying attention at Kato. How about a 4-8-4 Santa Fe Northern type with the two tenders they used to haul around. Tired of what brand X keeps throwing at us as New & Improved. BS! By the way thanks for the FEF UP offerings. Nice real nice.
If you don't want to wait for Kato, this can be done with existing Unitrak curves: http://www.fiferhobby.com/html/kato_unitrack_curves.html
Have they ever run an SD45 in Milwaukee Road colors? If not, the AS DELIVERED scheme, (4000 series numbers), not the later billboard style!
Easy one: Rerun more of your past engines. Rerun the GS-4s! That people are asking almost double of their original sale price is proof that there is still a demand for them. Double bonus points if they are offered with out their dresses on (deskirted). More NW-2s and PAs as well. You have all of the molds so there is little investment to run them, just run them!
I would want to doubt those molds are worn out, so there would be no development and to run any new road names, very little research- if anything....
I'm hoping they will make a new roof for the F3/7 with low fans and db vent. That would produce two new 'phases' for the F3. Jason
A few years ago there was a rumor that Kato was going to do the 1948 Olympian Hiawatha. That would be fun !!! FM Erie built, Westinghouse Quill electrics, S2 northern , Bi Polar Electrics, Skytop lounges, Tap cars, "Touraluxe" sleepers etc. etc... Randy
NYC 20th Century Limited post-war!!!! I have an A-B-A Lightning stripe set of Alco PA/PBs that have been waiting for this missing named train.
You know the old argument that their major market and a driving force is what sells in Japan. The Japanese like streamlined unit trains. So why not the the UP, CB&Q, IC, B&M etc articulated trainsets. Yeah, Con Cor has done many of them but I would sure buy them if they ran like all the Kato articulated train sets.
To echo the 2 new phases of F units, I think similarly Kato should do an E3/E6 and E7 since they have the chassis all ready anyhow. I think an early TA powered Rocket could be fit in there as they were hauling 3 or 4 cars almost exclusively like the articulated/draw bar-ed consists of the roads you mentioned.
