I Can't Believe MTH Hasn't Made....

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/bn/bn321549.jpg

That is the link to the perfect scheme for the Burlington Northern "Modern" Exterior-Braced 50' Box Car.

"Modern" is the MTH and Lionel term, for some reason.

Andrew

M.O.W.

Dan

A Camel Locomotive with PS3.

This many items will be very expensive and it will take some time to get all these schemes run on their existing models.

MTH has not made in the Premier line:

Soo Line ALCo FA-2 A-B diesels.

Soo Line EMD F3 Diesel in Original Maroon and 1960's repaint Red & White

Soo Line EMD FP7 Diesel in Original Maroon and 1960's repaint red & white

Soo Line GP9 in the 1960's repaint red & White

Soo Line 1920's livestock car

Wood-Sided caboose in the Soo Line graphics.

Soo Line Jordan Spreader

Soo Line Snowplow

Soo Line heavy-duty flat car

Soo Line GSC Flat Car with Bulkheads in Colormark scheme

Soo Line GP30 with trucks from ALCo FA-2

Soo Line GP35

Soo Line ACF Center Flow 3-bay covered hoppers in the 1972-1973 graphics and road numbers. Hoppers in the 72000 and 73000 series

Soo Line GP38-2s from 1977 renumbered 4400-4409 with the bright red 3M Scotchlite SOO and road number. Actual 3M Scotchlite markings

Soo Line 60' flat car that is decorated like the 5300 series Thrall Car flat cars 

Soo Line ACF Center Flow 3-bay covered hoppers in the 1980-1981 graphics and road numbers. Hoppers in the 75000 series and 76000 series

Soo Line SD60 in the 6000-6034 number series with the red & white hockeystick scheme.

Missouri Pacific 4-Bay Open Hoppers with the Mo-Pac eagle logo.

MP 4-Bay open hoppers with the C&EI buzzsaw logo

MP 4-bay open hoppers repainted with the Union Pacific sheild logo

Chicago & NorthWestern 4-bay open hoppers with yellow end panels and Rotary Couplers for operation in Rotary Coal dumpers.

Denver & Rio Grande Western 4-bay open hoppers with white end stripes and Rotary Coupler for Rotary Coal dumpers.

Andrew

Falcon Service

The Soo Line 2-Bay offset-side hoppers to go with the other Pre-1960 Soo Line locos and cars.

Andrew

Premier Western Maryland Potomac Class 4-8-4

RailKing Imperial Chesapeake and Ohio Greenbrier 4-8-4

The Railking RS-1 in Washington Terminal and East Washington paint schemes.

Maybe even a premier 2-8-0 in the Chesapeake Beach RW paint scheme.  The 64 foot wood coaches and maybe a bobber caboose would look good, too.

More Atlantic Coast Line motive power

Seaboard Coast Line U30, U33C, SD45

Seaboard System SD45 

I would vote as well for more Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard Coast Line power. It would really be cool to make some SCL relettered of SAL locomotives from the 1967-70 era. I know MTH has made some ACL units lately - GP-7 (using GP-9 body) SW units and the black GP-35. There has been almost nothing that I know of from MTH lettered for SCL in locomotives ( or even Lionel for that matter). These black units lasted well into the 1980s, and some as late as 1992. All I have now is an older Weaver C628 in the SCL scheme. I would really like to see SCL E-8s, GP38-2 and the GP40. These last two were sen everywhere on smaller trains. Would even like to see a Family Lines / Seaboard System SD40-2.

As for Seaboard System, how about an SD50? That was the first big power purchased by them for mainline service during the 1980s. 

Just trying to model what I remember during the early - mid 80s in high school.

 What if MTH took the Flexicoil trucks from their SW-1500, and put them under its SW1200?  They'd have a new model with very little investment.  Railroads that used Flexicoil-equipped SW1200s include:Rock Island, New Haven, Illinois Terminal, Conrail, Penn Central,and Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac.  They Canadian National also had a similar model: the SW1200RS. 

RailKing: SCL PS-2-CD Low-Side 3-bay covered hopper

Premier:

Family Lines System SCL/L&N ACF Center Flow 3-bay covered hopper

Seaboard System Auto Carrier

Seaboard System 50' AIRSLIDE covered hopper

Seaboard System ACF Center Flow 2-Bay and 3-Bay Covered Hopper

Andrew

Lehigh Valley Steamers in the Premier line.

This:

http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/cnj2000.jpg

And that:

http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/cnj74a.jpg

While we're at it:

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/usa/usn6500369ags.jpg

And let's not forget:

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/njdot/njt4167arc.jpg

Bob 

St. Louis Southwestern Cotton Belt SD45 diesel for RailKing at the same time as a RailKing Southern Pacific SD45 Diesel engine is made.

More St. Louis Southwestern freight cars.

RailKing: SSW High-Cube Box Car

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/sp/ssw36012wba.jpg

Premier: SSW Cotton Belt 50' Double-Door Box cars

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/sp/ssw48002dla.jpg

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/sp/ssw49432akg.jpg

SSW COTTON BELT Auto Carrier

http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/932-4867

SSW COTTON BELT ACF Center Flow 3-Bay Covered Hoppers

version 1

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/sp/ssw70091acc.jpg

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/sp/ssw70072amg.jpg

version 2

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/sp/ssw74118.jpg

Andrew

Falcon Service

How about the Western Maryland K2 Pacific - 202 is in Hagerstown, MD.

Pullman wood sheathed passenger cars, just prior to the change over to steel - 'Palace' cars I believe). A lot of railroad names could be used on these (but lets start with Reading, WM, D&H, NYC...  ...).

Henry J 

RailKing:

Soo Line SD9 diesel #2381 in the original Maroon & Yellow 1950's era scheme.

Soo Line SD9 diesel #2381 repainted in the Very Light Gray and Red 1960's scheme.

http://www.sooline.org/publica.../27_4/pubs_27-4.html

http://www.sooline.org/publica.../28_2/pubs_28-2.html

Andrew

Remember the Wisconsin & Southern box car types. MTH has only made one W&S / WSOR 53' Double Plugged Door box car graphic variation.

There were Wisconsin & Southern Exterior-Braced 50' Single-Door Box cars painted in deep blue in the 1990's

Andrew

More of these stack cars.

- Mike

If we can include steam engines on this list, I'd sure like to see a USRA Heavy Mikado. Also a modern 10-wheeler, rather than the old timer that Williams came out with.  That one is too toy-like.  And then, how about a couple of earlier articulated engines.  2-6-6-2 abd the like.  some standard designs could be painted in several different road names.

Paul Fischer

'Nuf said.

SMOOTH SIDE RAIL KING PASSENGER CARS with the more rounded dome shape!!!!

I would love to see some Atlantic Coast lines Steam engines in the Royal Purple Color like Williams did back in the Day.

Specifically a

Scale or Semi Scale Hudson

Scale or Semi Scale Berkshire

or even Throw this over the top with a Northern or a J-Class done in the Purple color and Passenger Cars to go with it.

I know it is a fantasy scheme But I love the look of it

Also MTH Released a Girls set many years ago They might look into a Boys Set as well

would love to get my hands on a boys set due to the fact that I have a Nephew Due here in August. 

Here are my Picks

R. Hales - I like the 2-6-6-0.  Didn't find a whole lot of info on them and doesn't sound like any of them survived.  I'd buy for sure!

Thanks for the sharing.

Jim

 A G gauge Allegheny..... and their own G gauge track. I missed getting their G gauge Bigboy and it's in high demand. I would think that the Allegheny would sell out fast.

 The track prices are getting out of touch in G gauge. The demand is high and the product is scarce. Go figure.

They don't appear to be doing much in Large Scale anymore, Joe, and it is a shame because the product seems to have been well received by the Large Scale and garden railroading community (I still keep in touch with folks in that segment of the hobby).

I can't imagine they would ever consider their own track line at this point, and I think we're pretty much stuck with what we have in the way of 45mm gauge track.  You're absolutely right though; track prices have adversely impacted the garden railroading folks in particular.

Many in the Large Scale community kind of poo-pooed the loss of LGB some years back, but my view is that the LS segment of the hobby, at least in the U.S., has been on a downhill slide ever since.  I'm just glad that I built-up and retained a nice stockpile of LS items over the years.

I know it's not prototypical but The GM Aerotrain decorated for The Reading Crusader.

For the intermodal aficianados, a MTH Premier Maxi-Stack III 3-unit articulated well car.

Paul

New Haven Pullman Bradley (aka American Flyer) Passenger cars. 

We can include these for Seaboard Air Line too

I would love for someone to make the 86' high cube auto parts box car.  It doesn't matter whok, just as long it's correct.  Maybe I need to dig out some of the freight car slides and scan them to the site.

Some more Southern, N & W, SCL, and Clinchfield would be very nice especially Southern pulpwood racks. 

Great minds think alike. 

The auto parts cars come up from time to time on the forums.  Hopefully and possibly the manufactures read these forums.

One thing for sure, the auto parts car question will come up at Norfolk.

I'm in...

Unique "Annie" Cabeese....also found in DT&I, Wabash, et al liveries...


And, "Annie" FA's (they had no FB's) in the nee-Wabash classy colors.  So, with a simple print change in the flag and side panel, you can do the parent Wabash versions, also!!


And, I'll throw in a vote for an accurate, Premier, rendition of the GE 44 Tonners.  There should be enough roadnames and fantasies (I'd like to see Painted/undecs in some basic colors) for this puppy to keep the product in the catalogue for some time.

So, something to chew on.

Y'all have a safe 4th.

KD

The only place I've seen the caboose is the OMI brass version.  These are pretty hard to find these days.  I'd go for this caboose big time if someone did a good job with it.

Proto-2000 did exactly this with the engines in HO and you could also find them in N.  I would love a PS-3 version of these but I'd like MTH to take into account that the Ann Arbor ran them like in the picture so no "dummy" front couplers.

Mr. Hales:  Of course, I'd be interested in the Denver and Salt Lake/D&RGW 2-6-6-0's,

too, but have little hope of those materializing in three rail. Ring me up for a D&SL

version with the brakemans' box on the tender.

Texas and Pacific 600 class 2-10-4 #610.  It seems to me like a lot of people would want this engine to run on their steam-diesel transition layouts or in its later excursion train reincarnation.  For me, I would re-paint it into its American Freedom Train colors.  Ron

Indiana HARBOR Belt in the 1990's scheme

IHB SW1500 diesel switcher

IHB Bay-window caboose

IHB Covered Coil Car in the Orange HARBOR on Black scheme

Andrew