MTH and LIRR "Ping-Pong" Coaches

Are these the pictures? James

It's a question of new tooling. Charlie has asked MTH many times.

Every one who wants these has to contact MTH to let them know so they can see that there is a big audience for them. Maybe, just maybe they'll finally make them.

Hey, they finally are offering just an A unit C Liner instead of an ABA and a 5 pack of just coaches, no vista domes. There may be hope.

Thanks Steve, I have asked for many years about Ping Pong cars and the answer from Mike is always " Sure, you pay for the tooling" These cars have limited intrest also outside LI. If the market swings around, maybe but I don't see it anytime soon.

There have to be similar passenger cars on other railroads.

You have to look for more railroads with nearly identical passenger cars.

Andrew

THANKS, Charlie for your response, and also the gentleman for posting the C-Liner with the "Ping-Pong" coaches at Montauk!

Perhaps Weaver might be interested?

Having no experience with the LIRR or LI area why are they called pingpong cars?

I believe they were called ping pong cars because they rocked and rolled their way down the track and the passengers felt like ping pong balls getting bounced around.

These lightweight cars with lightweight trucks rode rough hence their back and forth movement like a ping pong ball! 

my guess is given the number of LIRR fans out there you could sell maybe 500---isnt that a big enough run?

500 sets is that a firm order 20th Century? ��

I'd order a set for sure Charlie. 

Andy

no I meant cars so guess thats 100 sets of 5--- I dont know charlie you would know better how many dashing dans there are out there who would love it

Scale Ping Pong cars would be 13.5" long, so these cars would be ideally suited for operation on 031 curves. There is not much detail on a Ping Pong car negating the need to make them in the Premier Line. Instead the Ping Pong cars could be Rail King Imperial. 

I think we should start a poll to determine how many cars would be preordered and how many would bought when they are catalogued. Preordered cars provides capital to offset tooling costs. 

I would buy a set of eight Long Island Rail Road Ping Pong cars in steam era livery and even more cars if I don't have to clean out my bank account to do so. I would also like to have the Long Island G5s return as a Rail King Imperial item.

I would love to see them as well, but doubt I will. Selling LIRR locomotives is one thing since they are common models to other railroads, but LIRR speciific cars might be asking too much from one of the big guys.

On the other hand, ping pong cars would make a nice new Railking passenger set!

The Atlas Trainman cars would be a decent stand-in for LIRR equipment. The Lionel Baby Madisons also look somewhat like a P54.

theres a company called island model works that makes them in o scale in unpainted plastic with no couplers and not sure if trucks would work in 3 rail---they also make the double decker and p70 cars --just not sure if they can be modified to work on 3 rail and how much of a headache it is---anyone buy from them?

We hear ya!

Besides the Ping Pongs, what would a Tichy painted C-Liner have pulled?

Andy

Not sure, but a Goodfellow P72 and a Tichy C-Liner may have crossed paths.

The unpainted cars could be painted by the people at Buffalo Creek Graphics.

Andrew

You're right Ron. I have seen Tichy C-Liners pull Goodfellow gray P72 coaches, and that was for a short time, but it would be plausible.

Andy

I just watched a clip of the end of steam ceremony in hicksville on youtube. The G5's came in with gray P72's and a Tichy C-Liner passed through. While not pulling the P72's, they at least were together in the same timeframe. Like you said...plausible.

I can attest to the "Ping-Pong" attributes of these cars.  We had a few of them at Steamtown in the early days and they did indeed rock and roll.  If they were on the end of a train it was more like "crack the whip"!

Conductor Earl