Darn! Look what they got in HO!

Mth is going to do some heritage engines in railking ! Step in the right direction.

Not sure what that means. Although the link in HO goes to a seven thousand dollar brass model.

Yeah, that way everyone can complain about the details being wrong on a model of a locomotive that doesn't exist!

 

Rusty

Of course any of the manufacturers could make this in O.  The problem would be in selling more than a handful of the models.  Gotta admit, that's one ugly locomotive (and this from someone who likes ugly locomotives).

Yeah, that way everyone can complain about the details being wrong on a model of a locomotive that doesn't exist!

 

Rusty

 

Nothing different than the Scale Polar express!

 

Actually, there is a BIG difference between painting an existing engine in a different color vs. designing, tooling and manufacturing a new engine

A KOOL model....but if you want one you better build it yourself. It would not be real hard....WBB F45 cab noses are almost that short!!

I'm surprised that this model hasn't been offered already in the mass market.  I'd bet that there's enough interest out there to make it profitable, certainly in HO at least.

 

Hmmmm . . . I see huge sales potential here.  Its a really ugly loco.  It was a failed idea at the start, and never really got off the ground.  I can see Lionel and MTH selling, thousands, no, hundreds, no, well, maybe half a dozen!

 

If we're going to wrap a "styling" shell around a steam loco, I'll all for sticking with Henry Dreyfuss and Raymond Loewy.

 

EDIT ON THINKING ABOUT IT MORE: Guys, look at it: this has to be about the EASIEST LOCOMORIVE TO BASH OR SCRATCHBUILD that ever existed.  Its little more than a box, all flat panels.  I figure the six guys who want one can make it themselves.  Seriously, it has no appeal to me but looking at photos and drawings I googled about it, it would be easy to build.

Ther just happens to be one for sale on the buy & Sell forum!  

Somebody's kidding about the price, aren't they?  I mean; $7 thousand bucks for a HO locomotive????   Man that's as much of a dream as Ross Rowland's when he conceived of (or had one of those moist dreams) the original.  So, if the HO version would be $7,250, then the "0" scale job would sell for, say; $15,000???  What a sweet deal; methinks we'd all be standing in line for that one.

 

Paul Fischer

Looks european.

Now I know what Bachmann can to with that old Williams ill-proportioned "FP45"
tooling. A-A set, Berkshire running gear under one of them, and voila! ACE!

The ACE loco was the Great White Hope of steam. I don't mind the car body idea,
but did it have to be an UGLY car body? The E60 electric body would have looked great.

EDIT ON THINKING ABOUT IT MORE: Guys, look at it: this has to be about the EASIEST LOCOMORIVE TO BASH OR SCRATCHBUILD that ever existed. 

Really?  And how does one do that B&O type drivetrain?

In re: the prototype design - I thought the Chinese government had bought the rights from the American Coal Institute after no one here wanted to build it? As to kitbashing, an EMS mallet could supply the running gear.

Oh really?????.......


WAIT A MINUTE!!!! WHAT DID THAT TENDER SAY???

Since Lionel was able to sell a zillion Pennsy S2 turbines they should be able to sell a bunch of these.

I'm sorry that you no longer hear the bell...

I've been saying this for years, when I went through my old 1940's to 1970's

Model Railroader and RMC magazines, looking for rolling stock and cars I could

kitbash or scratchbuild to 3 rail, but not for THIS particular item..latest is the canceled

McKeen car.  P. 78 of Nov. 1962 MR has an HO kit for a plant I want my logging branch

to ship to..not enough detail in the ad to plagiarize it, as I usually do, to O scale, as it is kind of a dark and distant photo. (price looks good, too..heh, heh...try and get an O scale kit for a one story johnny house for that price nowadays...Plasticville excepted)

I even find stuff in the current model mag issues that I want in O scale....... but

Santa never brings them....