@TheRambles posted:I would love if they did the FP-7 again.
While I have 3 from the original run, I'd like to get a PRR Tuscan Red powered B unit to go with my lone Tuscan A unit.
@TrainBub posted:Well the FP45 was just announced. Scott must have gotten lots of emails for it. Good follow on - fit with past passenger car offerings too. This should make the SF crowd happy - and others too of course. I get a pass on this offering and that gives my bank account a breather. But It also sound like Scott is firming up the Alco FA for 22. That’s Good for me in that it spreads out expenditures a bit later.
Cheers !!!
Really? Where? I was just on the 3rd rail page and reservation form and saw no announcement.
@TrainBub posted:
This one ?
Nope sorry! Thats not it.
@TheRambles posted:I would love if they did the FP-7 again.
Same here! I would be broke for both PRR versions and the Canadian Demonstrators!
@GG1 4877 posted:While I have 3 from the original run, I'd like to get a PRR Tuscan Red powered B unit to go with my lone Tuscan A unit.
I would "Go for the Gold A-B-A set!
@prrhorseshoecurve posted:Really? Where? I was just on the 3rd rail page and reservation form and saw no announcement.
Discussed by Scott in a Forum thread somewhere. He made it sound like it will be coming soon.
@prrhorseshoecurve posted:Nope sorry! Thats not it.
I believe This was only non-road E-6 done.
@prrhorseshoecurve posted:Nope sorry! Thats not it.
Ok then. Pic required.
FYI. There is a photo of the Seaboard E4 on page 7 (20 replies to a page setting) of this thread.
@John Hon posted:FYI. There is a photo of the Seaboard E4 on page 7 (20 replies to a page setting) of this thread.
Yes! You are correct. My post first, fourth, and fifth photos.
@prrhorseshoecurve posted:Yes! You are correct. My post first, fourth, and fifth photos.
Well it looks like there were two versions at the fair. Scott did the late version and I’ve posted the pic of that model a bit back in this thread. Very, VERY FEW !!! were made by 3rd Rail. I may be wrong but I think I heard 2 or 3 !!! Please correct if I’m wrong.
If you want that first version, lobby Scott with an email with pictures and get friends to do so too. Having both versions done would be cool.
Good Luck !!!!
This would make a great addition to the other vest pocket passenger trains 3rdRail/GGD have produced.
Mike -
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I think I’d be willing to shell out for a Comet.
@TrainBub posted:Well it looks like there were two versions at the fair. Scott did the late version and I’ve posted the pic of that model a bit back in this thread. Very, VERY FEW !!! were made by 3rd Rail. I may be wrong but I think I heard 2 or 3 !!! Please correct if I’m wrong.
If you want that first version, lobby Scott with an email with pictures and get friends to do so too. Having both versions done would be cool.
Good Luck !!!!
Yes there were 5 [five] Worlds Fair E6's done- 4 two rail and mine maybe the only 3 rail unit!
Well it’s fun to go back thru this Looonngg thread. And it’s quite interesting to see what has come to fruition in the thread - has been offered and delivered. Gotta be a lot of happy “Trainiacs” out there. Lots of great leftover ideas too. Perhaps my note here can “stir the pot” with some old thread participants to resurrect some of their favorite ideas / requests .
Theres a new thread about Alco RS models. I’ll bring it up here too. I think a RS model would be great. 1, 3 I don’t care. I think it would be as popular as the recent F3s or GPs. IMHO of course.
Cheers
Since I believe that shelf and modular railroading is a needed long-term growth area for two-raisers (Or dead-raillers), I would like to suggest commonplace early first-generation diesel switchers.
I’d like to see a nice ALCO-GE S-1 or S-2 or an SW-1 or NW-2. Admittedly these are few on the ground these days, but a lot of the EMDs lasted into the 1970’s on Class 1 railroads while more than a few of the ALCOs lasted nearly that long on short line and industrial railroads (Indeed, a very few are still running)
@Bob Harris posted:well OK here is my 2 cents. to go with the T&P 2 10 4 . Texas and Pacific 4 8 2 mountainsThere was 2 classes of these with and without FWTR 900-909 , These were used on there passenger trains for there Texas eagle trains. They were Eagle blue and Eagle gray with silver and yellow stripping , silver lettering outlined in black edging on the letters and numbers.
Bob
Boy I’d be excited to see these !!!
I probably will cringe at the “current” pricing.
@VintageClassics posted:Hi Bob! Great idea!! Those locos would be gorgeous, and an excellent compliment to the 3rd Rail T&P 2-10-4
Absolutely gorgeous !!!!
@Bob Harris posted:Well these are nice the black version is the most accurate. The blue is way off the color chart for what they used. It is just like the E 6 color which the RR called Eagle Blue and Eagle Gray these were painted this way to run with the New Texas Eagle consist because the streamline cars and the E 6 had not arrived net from the builder in 1948 . When they arrived the steamers were kept painted this way and used for stand by power when needed.
I am with you. I would love to have these In O scale model from but doubt if it will ever happen. It took me 5 years to convince Scott to do the 2 10 4 , and the CGW model helped to get the Texas.
But who knows. All it takes is the reservations, so who else would want these, I will take 2 blue and 1 black.
Bob H
I’m leery of what the current pricing would be, but I’d be in for One of Each !!!!!! It will probably be necessary to find another Road “look-alike” to offer with the T&Ps to get it to fly. That worked before.
I think there are quite a few people still kicking themselves for passing on the T&P 2-10-4. I know of several here in Missouri alone. Man, would the blue version be killer with the upcoming EAGLE cars !!!!!! 👍🙂😜😛😉🙃
Cheers 😜
I wouldn't hold my breath for many steam announcements in the future. Can't get anyone to agree on 75 models of the same type and the old PRR, NYC, ATSF, UP guarantee of interest just doesn't work anymore. Perhaps some select models at the $5k price point where only 25 in 3r and 25 in 2r will be made like the latest Allegheny with detail extraordinaire.
Equally disappointed as anyone else as I'd like a few steam locomotives that have never been done right in O, HO, or N.
In my case a few Pacifics to be specific.
Aberdeen, Carolina & Western (https://www.acwr.com/rolling-s...cwr-6909-emd-sd-40-3)
@GG1 4877 posted:I wouldn't hold my breath for many steam announcements in the future. Can't get anyone to agree on 75 models of the same type....
I agree that doing a steam engine used by only one railroad may not be economically feasible. This is why they need to do a steamer used by more than one road like the USRA Heavy Santa Fe 2-10-2. Five roads had it: Bessemer and Lake Erie; Chicago, Burlington and Quincy; Erie; Colorado and Southern; and Pennsylvania. Since they would be brass I would hope Sunset could also do both the as built PRR engine as well as the later PRR modifications to the engine (Belpaire firebox and smokebox front).
@CAPPilot posted:I agree that doing a steam engine used by only one railroad may not be economically feasible. This is why they need to do a steamer used by more than one road like the USRA Heavy Santa Fe 2-10-2. Five roads had it: Bessemer and Lake Erie; Chicago, Burlington and Quincy; Erie; Colorado and Southern; and Pennsylvania. Since they would be brass I would hope Sunset could also do both the as built PRR engine as well as the later PRR modifications to the engine (Belpaire firebox and smokebox front).
A good idea. Personally, Lines West PRR doesn't interest me nearly as much, but that is just me. I know, not helping with the magic 75 number!
Pennsylvania R1 electric.
Brass C&O M1 turbine.
@GG1 4877 posted:I wouldn't hold my breath for many steam announcements in the future. Can't get anyone to agree on 75 models of the same type and the old PRR, NYC, ATSF, UP guarantee of interest just doesn't work anymore. Perhaps some select models at the $5k price point where only 25 in 3r and 25 in 2r will be made like the latest Allegheny with detail extraordinaire.
Equally disappointed as anyone else as I'd like a few steam locomotives that have never been done right in O, HO, or N.
In my case a few Pacifics to be specific.
It’s so disheartening for those of us wanting something NOT !!! PRR NYC ATSF UP !!!!!!!! And I don’t think there is a big market for $5K offerings. I think this tells me the secondary market will become more important and we most likely won’t see anything new. Perhaps there can be Some hope if say common USRA designs can be utilized (Lots of Roads !!!) with odds n ends add-on details for different roads. Surely there’s some engines - say like Mikados - that are Really close between different roads that could “fly”. I would hope !!!!
I hate to say it but I might have to be “satisfied” with generic Lionel/K-line models for MP, TP, Frisco, MKT.
Has anyone asked for L&N 2-8-4 or is there not enough interest in one? I don't think one has ever been done in O gauge.
Another run of #475 N&W Mollie's. I have been looking for a long time for one in 3 rail.
To touch on CAPPilot’s earlier comment, the Florida East Coast’s 400 class 4-8-2s later had several other owners, such as the Western Pacific, the Cotton Belt, the Western Railway of Alabama, the Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast, and the Nacionales de Mexico, but I’m not sure there would be enough money-waving interest in the O scale market to make production of models economically justifiable.
