D&RGW early Prospector & Select Heavyweight Cars in O scale

Absolutely drop-dead gorgeous.  Will I have to sell an airplane to be able to afford them?

Roughly, how much will that spectacular CB&Q solarium car cost? 

Hmmm, I'll have to research the CB&Q dining car and see if it can be lettered for C&S.

 

ChipR

 

Sorry guys I was away from the desktop all day.

The cars will roughly be $950-$1000 range pre-order price with at least a 50% deposit.

After the cars arrive the price would go up if you didn't secure a 50% deposit.

Exact figures will be provided by Jack; please contact him.

Thank you for the interest.

beautiful!

Erik,

What would have pulled them? Originally and later?

Regards,

Ed

Absolutely stunning... would be cool if OGR would do an interview with this company about what their plans and goals are for entering the O gauge market.

 

The car interiors are incredible. You can see the beaded metal corners on the tables underneath the table cloths. 

That company is already IN the O SCALE market, just NOT 3-Rail.

I believe the last O scale models by DP were the RDCs back around 2000.

I am not 100% sure however DVP did at least 3 caboose projects in o scale since the RDC, one of Jack's first projects. Not including the Joint Line projects with Theo at BLW. So your mistaken on that note. 

 

 

On the Prospector you could pull these with either FT's, or early F3/2's and into the 4 stripe era F9's and PA's. Bear in mind EMD A units did not have steam generators large enough for the whole train; a B unit was always used.  Steam could be M68, 64, 75 any of the various Northerns. The heavyweights are primarily from the HO Exposition Flyer project however the cars were used all throughout the system. The DL3 series cars were all over the CB&Q, lettered as Omaha, Lincoln, or Minneapolis Club the cars were used from the Blackhawk to the Twin Cities Zephyr stand in when the stainless cars were in the shop.  The Western Pacific cars are the same most of these were cars pooled for the 1939-1949 train. 

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Not familar with those at all, I have only been back active in O scale the last few years. I enjoy your pics on all these brass models. Brass importing in O scale today is much more limited at the high end [finete number of investors at these price points], fortunately Sunset and Weaver cater to a wider market.JMHO

Hey hibar,

 

Its all good no problem.

 

The manufacturing processes used to make brass is very different than tooling up for plastic that is certain; looking at the size of the fine-scale o market it simply is not an option to get Exact-Rail or Athearn Genesis authenticity in 1/48 like we see in 1/87 rtr plastic {sadly}.  disconnected pilots, oversize grab irons, creative fit the box proportions, and the other semi-scale three rail attributes although good in there own right own the o scale industry for now.

 

As far as Sunset and Weaver brass imports go they certainly are a different range of product. I own many many Sunset brass models and enjoy them as much as any other; they do leave off the extended range of detail you might see in a Key or PSC run but nonetheless it all comes down to you the owner and what you want. I like them both; and in some cases I have taken Sunset models with less detail and had them custom finished to as or far beyond anything coming from Korea. Thankfully they are for the most part fine-scale 1/48.

 

Sadly in o scale the predominance of prototypes are a brass only option unlike HO or N.  

 

 

Rapido is also doing a great job in HO.

absolutey hibar!

 

 

Turns out after talking with Jack today for now only the Prospector cars are up for reservation with the heavyweight cars later perhaps next year. 

 

As Erik noted, the CB&Q cars migrated across the Burlington. The "Omaha Club" was seen often on Burlington steam fantrips in the '50's. Beautiful car and wonderful to see this equipment showing up in O Scale!