MTH Please!

John, 

You should enter this on the MTH site at https://mthtrains.com/news/614 . They are having a "You should really make" contest.

John,

That looks like a good candidate for a scratch built car.  Not a lot of complicated curves or bends, everything is straight.  Reinforcing beams could be either wood or plastic, sides could be cardstock, wood or styrene.  Looks like a fun car you could building in a couple of nights.  With your talent for good writing, a good article would be interesting and informative.

John in Lansing, ILL

Donkey Flaps posted:

John, 

You should enter this on the MTH site at https://mthtrains.com/news/614 . They are having a "You should really make" contest.

Unfortunately, that contest is for freight car decoration only, on cars they already have tooling for.

If it included locomotives and unbuilt tooling, I would have suggested a CF7, a unique looking hood loco, the same size as an F unit, small enough for any layout, that has many prototype schemes. Also, because F units are already in the line, new tooling requirements would be less. I might even overlook my personal ban on DCS purchases for one of these!

Bill in FtL

Smooth side version already made by MTH. Would be easy to convert to outside braced with styrene.

Bill Nielsen posted:

Donkey Flaps posted:

John, 

You should enter this on the MTH site at https://mthtrains.com/news/614 . They are having a "You should really make" contest.

Unfortunately, that contest is for freight car decoration only, on cars they already have tooling for.

If it included locomotives and unbuilt tooling, I would have suggested a CF7, a unique looking hood loco, the same size as an F unit, small enough for any layout, that has many prototype schemes. Also, because F units are already in the line, new tooling requirements would be less. I might even overlook my personal ban on DCS purchases for one of these!

Bill in FtL

 

I would be in for this.

Says nothing about tooling. I was the first to send the list after having them correct the link, we shall see how this really turns out?

SPSF, do you have MTH model number of Golden West Service car?

I couldn’t find it on their website. 

Thanks,

Larry

rattler21 posted:

John,

That looks like a good candidate for a scratch built car.  Not a lot of complicated curves or bends, everything is straight.  Reinforcing beams could be either wood or plastic, sides could be cardstock, wood or styrene.  Looks like a fun car you could building in a couple of nights.  With your talent for good writing, a good article would be interesting and informative.

 

rattler21 posted:

John,

That looks like a good candidate for a scratch built car.  Not a lot of complicated curves or bends, everything is straight.  Reinforcing beams could be either wood or plastic, sides could be cardstock, wood or styrene.  Looks like a fun car you could building in a couple of nights.  With your talent for good writing, a good article would be interesting and informative.

John in Lansing, ILL

John:  

Thank you for your compliment!  I'm seriously going to consider "building" this car as I believe it would be a relatively simple project.

However, I confess to want to be lazy and have it done by MTH.  I absolutely believe that there are enough people who would buy this car in big sky blue--even with smooth sides.  I have a delaer who told me that MTH may make a run of at least 60, maybe 80,  I thought that 100 was the "magic" number.  Still I believe I could find enough buyers for 100 cars.  Heck, I want at least 6!  Now I'm torn.  Don't ask me why.  I'm NOT a rivet counter, but knowing GN and NP ONLY had rib-side cars will bug me if the sides are smooth.  I was disappointed to learn these GN and NP cars were sold to Montana Rail Link...and I have MRL cars--of course all smooth sides.

What will I do?  I'm leaning toward creating the cars by adding detail, but it would really be cool to be part of a special run.

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Andrew