Several good steam production over the past 4-5 years. Even some good articulateds. Anyone want to try this : SP 3800 AC-9 Picture shot by R.H. Kindig on May 11, 1940. X3800 was west bound with 70 cars just east of Tucumcari, New Mexco. Note the coal piled high in the bunker. Coal was from Dawson New Mexico. This shot from M.D. McCarter Collection. AC-9 class 2-8-8-4 at Alamogordo, New Mexico on October 8, 1951.
Naw, you guys got the GS4 recently, time to throw us NP-ers a bone! NP Z-5 2-8-8-4 yellowstone, I love the huge firebox, the low mounted headlights, and the flying pumps! Wait a miniute! they look really simmular....... Hey manufactures! look you can do the NP version, then add the skyline thingy, and swap details to get the SP version!! lol
When it comes to yellowstones you can't beat the DIMR http://www.steamlocomotive.com/yellowstone/?page=dmir
While we're on articulated, I would like a Uintah articulated (or Sumpter Valley, as they are the same locos in two different configurations) in Nn3 that does not require me to first hack up a Marklin mechanism.
Nobody gets anything until Pennsy guys get a K4, a H9-10, an I 1 and an M 1. Then you can have anything you want. And if you complain about it we'll add a T1 to the list. So there!
Guys: If somebody will make the model, I'll sure as h$ll be there to buy one! Just for display cuz my door-top rr couldn't handle it.
you Pennsy guys already had a K-4 and and I-1, and the H9 and M-1 are possible to scratchbuild! their isn't any prototypical NP locos out there. although, I would love to foobie a T-1 into NP colors just to mess with you PRR guys!!
Well, my proposal is a .... little step back! No more "monsters" that are nice "shelf queen" but something that can roll up& down my yard. I've in mind something like this : And, several railroads have similar design.
The K4 is no longer available and there never was an N scale PRR I 1. The H models are possible to scratchbuild but then so is every NP locomotive. As for messin with us with the T 1 in NP colors go ahead if that will make your day but know this. There is a GG1 in pink with purple pinstripes in O scale. Go here: woo woo woo - Williams O, 303, Girl's GG1 Freight Train Set If that didn't phase us then how on earth do you think anything you could do would be messin with us? HUH? Dream on, my lad, dream on. LOL
I would also be interested in some 4-4-0s that are actually good runners. These locomotives built a lot of North America yet have not been well-represented in N scale. A lot of the 19th century ones eventually ended up working in the woods, too, so there's that connection.
I would imagine some of the well known steamers BLI has done in HO that have been released multiple times would also be hits in N scale but they can't seem to get that M-1 off the drawing board so I guess we'll just keep waiting. mark
Checking 2-8-8-4 Yellowstone Type Locomotives ... All 2-8-8-4s had 63"-64" drivers and Walschaert valve gear; engine wheelbase varied from 66'3" to 67'2". I suppose they could all use the same frame, but there are more than just superficial differences. The NP ones have the huge firebox and spoked drivers. The DM&IR ones have all-weather cabs. The B&O ones were distinctly less massive than the others. And, of course, the tenders are different, most notably the DM&IR centipede. I'm not sure how much other than the mechanism could be shared.
Hopefully before I die... I'd like to see some mainstream Nn3 locomotives for all of the Nn3 rollingstock I have sitting around. I'm with you on a narrow guage articulated 2-6-6-0... D&RGW had a few.
They need to be more proactive in being in touch with their markets, they are out there. Right now, most of them follow the MTL model -- blast out a release to all your retail outlets. It has to be more than that. The hobby world is so highly specialized that it does no good to cast a large net. Instead you need to know the right kind of bait for the right kinds of fish. They need to know how to outreach to online model RR forums like this, to model RR clubs, encourage LHSes to foster customer networks that they can tap into, etc. Newer companies like Exactrail and BLMA and to a certain extent Fox Valley are already doing this. They're using technology and new media to develop a rapport with their customers (for example both have a presence on Facebook; Exactrail has a Twitter site), and in general their customers are happy with the type and quality of products they release. Maybe we'll see a shift; the bigger, older guard will fall and the new ones will rise.
All this talk about Yellowstones, you can't leave out the best... I would buy any Yellowstone offered, just to make it into a B&O. I am considering the forth coming AC-12 for such an operation. Here is my start using a Rivarossi mech. I would rather use the Athearn but it doesn't work out with their drive design. It's just a collection of parts right now. The mechanism does run. I just need to get off my duff and build the boiler.
Well said. Con-Cor has already done this with unique items like the Aerotrain and Galloping Goose. Sure the added cost is there, but there's still a market there for the most part. I'm assuming with all the variations on articulated steam this would be highly unlikely, however.
