BMT 6000 Series D Type Tri-Plex Subway Cars

I hear you Ed but I don’t anticipate any new tooling in O from MTH.

I’ve been waiting for the old SIRT-BMT cars for well over 5 years now.

All signs in the last two years have indicated an ending to a once robust train market.

Not many will pay over 35 a car.

C. Ro is blowing out 50’ MTH PS-1’s at 35 ea. couldn’t sell them at 52 ea.

Atlas O has a large number of cancellations listed as well. The majority will not pay 70 for a stock Atlas boxcar either.

Increased overseas labor, shipping and quality issues also play a part not to mention all the dealer closings.

 

So we can all wish, but it’s going to be a rough road ahead for the O scale model train marketers and associated companies.

 

Must reluctantly agree with your pessimistic outlook.  You are as wired in to this niche as anyone I know- do you see any way forward for O-scale traction models at all?

Same thing here; I have been hoping to see a Boston subway get made but that would also require new tooling. I don't see that happening any time soon.

Thanks  for the comment Mikael.  Carl  Here . My D types also run well using magic carpet drives and  have full interior details and lights. I did make a scratch built sirt car. Infact i made two of them. I am planning to make a third and it will be in  plastic with again  full interior and hopefully will come good enough for a project in a magazine.   Oscalecarl.  PS youtube search = oscalecarl gets   you all a view of subway, lirr doubledeckers and  more. enjoy

If anyone is interested in seeing the 9 car train of them they are at the TA Coney Island Shops. The last time I was there they were sitting outside the shop building nearest the Ave. X Station of the Culver F Line.

Ed,

 

Sorry to disappoint you, but the 3 surviving D-Type units haven't been at Coney Island for quite some time. 2 are in storage at a yard I rather not disclose, and the 3rd is in the Transit Museum on display. 

 

FYI, the BMT ABs are at Coney Island, outside. They were being restored up to a few years ago, but they got thrown out of the shops for reasons I am not privy to.

 

Mikael 

 

O scale reality finally setting in …

 

Received a new email notice from Charles Ro today. Another price blow out on more cars they can’t sell.

Prices especially on Atlas O are starting to come back down to earth!

 

I heard that dealers are reluctant to purchase new product going forward due to being over priced by the suppliers.

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Mikael:

 

Thanks for the update on the D-Types. I will phone Bill Wall and get the update of the cars. I will at the Transit Museum next month with a group from Westchester County.

Hi  There  SIRT.  I like your modeling. Your o scale  sirt line is  very  good. I spent almost 10 years there working in  clifton shop and in the substations.. I did a lot of work on there MUE  cars... I also scratch build a  o scale model.  Give me your  e mail address and i will send you a pix if you like

We chatted several times in the past. Like the IMW Ping Pongs you have.

You have my info.

Steve

Two of the D types are at Pitkin yard way in the back under the apartments.  They have been there since the 100 anniversary

 

 

Here are pics of the D types and also the Steinway cars from IslandModelworks

 

 

You let the cat out of the bag. Now everybody know where the D's are.

The last time the D types ran was on that Saturday in June 2004 for the 100th anniversary of the subway system. The last time I was at the Coney Island Yard Shops in 2009 they were still there.