CB&Q Passenger Motor Cars (PMC)

Santiago,

I was talking to Norm Buckhart, about who knows what, and I think he said something about bringing in something like this.  I'll ask him tomorrow what he calls me to check status on something I haven't finished.

Jay

Keep me posted , Jay! I was wondering what Norm would do next. 

Third rail offered a Pennsylvania specific gas electric, twice?, (in brass and plastic?)...not sure as after a search l found it Pennsylvania only), and repainting would not give me a good model, so l walked on.  Research did tell me there were Pa. gas electrics of a much more generic nature, Brill, GE, ? etc. that might have appealed to a wider market, as could have been offered.  MTH offered a gas electric, but l have not determined if or what its prototype is. I would like to know.  There are Walthers and other O scale kits, that l have built an MP model, from, and would like to build a "Q", but for their subsidiary, the C&S.

The last CB&Q gas electric functioned as a switch engine, based in Macomb, IL (home of WIU),  and covered Bushnell, IL, too.  It was retired about 1967 or '68. I might have interest in a CB&Q car, depending on price point.

I'd be up for one if done up in CGW.  CGW is pretty easy to model because almost anything you do was prototype at one time or another.  Long live the Great Weedy!

I would be in for a CGW one as well.

Like Santiago, I would be VERY interested in a Q version as well. 

Leaving Chicago off, l would oh so jump on a McKeen car as acquired by the Great Western, when it picked up remnants of the Denver, Laramie, and Northwestern. American Standard Car Co. was another builder of kits for gas electrics, that l used for my MP model,  and l have seen an ad for another gas electric kit? prior to WWll.  Other kits, and brass imports, may exist and be lurking in basements.

I talked to Norm about this and he was thinking about a AT&SF prototype.  Probably won't happen unless he gets better drawings. 

Jay

Jay C posted:

I talked to Norm about this and he was thinking about a AT&SF prototype.  Probably won't happen unless he gets better drawings. 

Jay

These?

Santiago,

No, he was looking at doing the M-160.  He can't find drawings for them.  Without proper drawings the Koreans can't/won't do anything

Sunset may be a better bet.

Jay

colorado hirailer posted:

 ...snip... l would oh so jump on a McKeen car ...snip...

MTH a few years back offered a McKeen car (the only time that I ever placed a pre-order) but could not get enough reservations (only twenty-five or so) to go into production.

colorado hirailer posted:

Third rail offered a Pennsylvania specific gas electric, twice?, (in brass and plastic?)...not sure as after a search l found it Pennsylvania only), and repainting would not give me a good model, so l walked on. 

Only in brass and only once.

That makes two of us that made that MTH McKeen preorder... two not enough?😂 (Last preorder for anything but cars)  I thought l had read Third Rail offers, different times, of that Pa. car in two versions?  Since gas electrics used to be traded like horses, and boomered from road to road, if that Pennsylvania car did that, l missed it.

colorado hirailer posted:

  I thought l had read Third Rail offers, different times, of that Pa. car in two versions?  

Only once in brass unless Scott snuck it in behind my back which I doubt.

R.Heil  Sunset Models / 3rd Rail

Overland did an Erie RR gas electric

I always admired the ATSF articulated motor.  Max Gray did it.  Wasn't terribly popular - I have only seen one.

I mean I'd still like my all time favorite engine to be made in 21st century brass....

SANTIAGOP23 posted:

Jay C posted:

I talked to Norm about this and he was thinking about a AT&SF prototype.  Probably won't happen unless he gets better drawings. 

Jay

These?

I sure would like a set of these!