Do you want a 3rd Rail ATSF Hudson?

Marker:

 

I'm sending you and e-mail off line. I will use the e-mail from your profile. If that is not good please let me know.

 

Charlie

I definitely want one. Scott needs 80 or so orders I think. I had held off, but I need to get with the program.

According to them at York the ATSF  Hudson will not be made. Too many other projects in the Que. to worry about the Hudson. 

Sorry, I'm not a Santa Fe modeler so I don't want one. I would much rather have a CB&Q 2-8-2 or 2-10-2.

I could go for an O1a myself...

 

Rusty

I have a PRB Hudson,3 rail,TMCC and EOB that I'd part with.  It is mint with a trial run only.

John did a great job with these engines:the detail was,and remains,extraordinary.  I bought this one on emotion and it is not in my area of interest.

 

Norm

I would!

 

2 rail of course 

I'm an easy mark for any 4-6-4...so yeah!

 

My personal preference would be a C&O Hudson, but that one went nowhere when Scott offered reservations a few years ago.

 

Jeff C

I would be interested in a Santa Fe-prototype 2-8-2 in two-rail.

I decided to order this engine. I bought the Santa Fe 2900 and have the N&W Mollie coming. I am so impressed with 3rd rail. They get the details right. 

                                                                                     JG

They made this one already.   I have 2 of them.  It was fairly recent too.  Maybe year and 1/2 ago.

 

 

They made this one already.   I have 2 of them.  It was fairly recent too.  Maybe year and 1/2 ago.

 

The only Mikado 3rd Rail has made in the last few years with Santa Fe markings is a model of the Mikados that Santa Fe bought from the Pennsy a few months before the end of WWII, which isn't a Santa Fe prototype.

 

Otherwise, 3rd Rail made Santa Fe 3700 Class 4-8-2's a closer to the time frame you are thinking, which is probably what you purchased.  You've been working on that layout too long, you need to get the engines out of the box.  

 

Well, I did my part....the double herald 3461 has been ordered.  But, based on conversations here and at York, I probably should not be very optimistic.  Are we 'pushing this car up the hill with a rope'?

 

So, we could continue the popular O3R mantra for another ATSF prototype....the 2-6-2 Prairie.  My preference would be the 1800 class.  There seems to be a sizable call for the 1050 class alternatively.  Whatever.  Happy, happy, happy.

 

Later.

 

 

 

How Much $$$ are we talking about? 

I'd guess the Hudson would be in the $1300.00-1500.00 range.

 

Jeff C

Didn't that guy in Texas, that made freight cars, too..make a Santa Fe Hudson?  I do

not remember if it was both 2 and 3 rail.

See Norm's post in this thread.

 

Jeff C

I would so be in for ATSF 2-6-2. As much as I love Santa Fe, and 3rd Rail, as I already have MTH's 4-6-4, I just can't afford another. 

Perhaps this has been covered elsewhere in the forum, but....

 

This moring I went to the 3rd Rail website.  The Santa Fe Hudson is gone!  There is a link on the home page, but it goes nowhere....at least for me.  Also, it doesn't appear on the reservation list anymore.

 

I know that MTH has put a bunch of their version of this engine out there.  I even have one...years ago, first issue.  However, the 3461 with the double herald on the tender was a priority for me.  I suppose MTH will, someday, do that with a change to the pad-printer.  But only Scott could be counted on to put fidelity in everything else about this ATSF icon.

 

If it's truly gone, today's cloudy, rainy, gray weather outside my window reflects my feelings on this loss perfectly.

 

(sigh)

 

KD

Well that sucks!  Cuz the MTH version just don't cut it for me. Looks good, but the sound system is what keeps me away from MTH.

We need approximately 100 additional reservations for 3rd Rail to consider offering these models. So put the word out and let 3rd Rail know.

Steve

But, if it's not on the reservation list, how does one notify...with sincerity?  IOW, would a simple email to Scott cut it?.  I would think a bona fide reservation would be a better measure of commitment.

 

I think this one is in REAL trouble if we're 100 rez's short of a green light.

 

Poopy.

 

KD +

 

Note to der forumeister:  Need a graemlin with more pathos than

I thought Scott had new builders that would allow production runs in the 50-100 range?

Oh well

I wonder if Weaver would build one. They seem to do small runs, 60 or so.

I really really want a 3460 series Hudson. I've got the Pecos River 3450 and love it.

Man, if you guys can't get enough orders for a ATSF engine I KNOW a Seaboard steamer will never see the light of day

 

Heck, I have too many engines as it is and haven't run any of them in the last month (my wife passed away May 3 and I just haven't felt like doing much of anything).

Bob,

 

I am so sorry to hear of your wife's passing. My prayers are with you.

 

Jeff C

The normal minimum run for a brass steam locomotives from Sunset is 125 - more if reservations indicate it is worthwhile. I am rather certain Joe Hayter at Weaver is faced with the same constraint on production minimums.

 

For Sunset, a brass steam project does not reach the design phase until reservations get to the 75 +/- range.

 

Bob Delbridge - my condolences on your wife's leaving us.

Bob Heil

Jeff and Bob, thanks.  She had been in poor health for some time and, even though it wasn't unexpected, I didn't expect it so soon.  We had some really "good times" the 25+ years we were together and those are the times I like to remember.