Items / Roads / Schemes modelers would like...

What is needed for the single-door and double-door box cars are more types of doors to match the actual doors.

There can be numerous types of Plug-Doors made for the double-door box cars.

New injection molds have to be made so that there is a variety of accurately fitting doors for all the O scale box cars or boxcars.

Andrew

ELGIN, JOLIET & EASTERN paint scheme on Premier and RailKing gondolas.

Andrew

The majority of items above don't require new tooling and  were never offered yet by MTH. The new PS-1 would require minor changes to the door area. A couple other items require new tooling.

I stay away from non-scale - detailed Railking cars. Never could understand the point of them since there are so many other companies with 027 items flooding the market.

I would like to add this one to the list.

Belt Railway of Chicago Genset.

Franktrain

SIRT posted:

I  hope MTH will start offering us some new items or schemes never seen before. Here are some suggestions…………………………..

 

    More EL added.

   Why no EL GP35's and F7's offered by MTH in O yet?

Yes. 1997 offering of old Proto problem units.

I prefer all updated diesels going forward with PS3. Don't like or ever seen the red PC scheme.

No interest in the others, but I sure do like the EJ&E car, sharp looking graphics!!!  I could use some "other RR" names on my layout besides SAL and ACL.

I didn't have the patience to wait.  I made my own.

Old RS-27 with PS-1.   Upgraded with ERR Cruise Commander and Railsounds.   It had the red logo.  I didn't like it either.  Removed the red logo and put white logos in their place.  Weathered the crap out of it.  I found out, after I was finished, that 2406 had the black dip scheme with no lettering or side logos.  It would be easy to change the numbers and logos to create a custom scheme.  I don't think any two RS-27 had the same paint scheme.  Don't hold your breath waiting for MTH to re-release the PC scheme again.  If they did, it would be Railking Scale.

I doubt that any of the manufacturers will ever produce a scale PC transfer caboose.  Too limited in the selection of road names.  If anybody does it will be MTH with various fantasy schemes.  I built a N9 transfer caboose using the chassis from a 40' PS-1 boxcar.  I figured that this is the only way I would ever see, or have one of these cars.  I would gladly take a production N9 or N11 model if they were made.

Tom

Very nice Tom! You are right on.

 I made just about everything that's never offered. I generally have a laugh when I see the OEM's copy my models years later.

MTH models I would like to see.

Railking: Pacific Electric Interurban

Premier:  D&SL and DRGW 2-6-6-0 Malley,

Put the Delaware & Hudson scheme on the PS-1 50' box car and PS-1 40' box car.

This PRR mallet would be nice!

or better yet the USRA 2-10-2 HEavy Santa FE!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...Santa_Fe_diagram.jpg

good for: the PRR, B&lLE, CB&Q, Erie, and the C&S!

For more modern the Amtrak Viewliners and the Angelofranco/ROHR Turboliners!

Mark - I’m now convinced that we will never see most of this stuff. It indicates that the uninformed marketers and buyers seem to dominate the hobby. Offerings and trends continue to be discouraging with each new catalog.

Baltimore & Ohio PS-2-CD 4427 Cubic Foot 3-bay covered hopper

Built in 2-70 or February 1970

BO 602900-602935

B&O Chessie System ACF Center Flow (2700) 2980 Cu Ft 2-bay covered hoppers, know as 2-bay Centerflow Hoppers in the catalogs.

BO 605000-605499

Thar PRR Mallet is the ugliest locomotive I've seen in a long time.  Pure and gritty railroading! Not sure everyone would  appreciate it, but I like it.

St. Louis San Francisco PS-2-CD 4427 cu. ft. 3-bay covered hoppers in 1967 scheme.

SLSF 79000-79099

Andrew

What is missing are the Central Vermont modern 50' box cars. They were painted medium blue with white markings. The CV box cars were built by FMC.

I would buy the D&SL articulated, but there is only one of me. Nothing else pictured above elicits other than yawns.  Since most would require new molds, horrors!, none of it will be ever offered.

MTH made a few premier MLB team boxcars. If they made all 30 teams, I'd but them all. Also, the MLB ALand NL SD90 engines that were prototyped but never made would be sweet to double head and pull all 30 team boxcars with. Maybe sell all as a set with a price discount. Premier line if course!

I like the 6222 and PE street car. I'm a sucker for portholes.

The PE would match the logo sticker on my old PE breaker box too, lol.

Alco HH660 & Baldwin "Babyface".

Great topic Steve, nice going!  A Baldwin double headed passenger locomotive,  Jersey Central 2000-2005.

I would like to see a Western Maryland Potomac (4-8-4) in the Premier line.  Some of the tooling already exists.  Also a I-2 Western Maryland class I-2 Decapod (1111-1130). 

I also want to add these paint schemes for the models MTH ALREADY HAS:

ALCo PA-1 Demo A/B

Rsd4 Demo unit [yes its in the SF zebra striped scheme!]

ALCo Fa-2 A-B-B-A Demonstrators [MTH"Marketters"once told me this dip scheme is BLAND and wouldn't sell!

Rs11 Demonstrators

Rebuilt Sd40 demo unit

BLW Transfer unit

EMD f7 A-B-A demo units

SD50 Demo unit

C-liner demo units

Postcard- artists rendition of an SD60M demo unit

GP40 Lease unit

EMD f7 A-B test beds!

This series of Santa Fe auto carrier built in 1973, Multiple road numbers.

New BNSF Multi-Max auto carrier on TTGX TTX flat car. All bright orange..

SOO LINE GP30 diesel-electric locomotive.

SOO LINE double-door 40' box car in this scheme.

Grand Trunk Western double-door 40' box car in 1960's era accurate scheme.

Illinois Central double-door 40' box car in the 1960's brown scheme.

Wabash 40' double-door box car

SOO LINE DD, Muffin has 4 left just out from Atlas -

https://mrmuffinstrains.com/pr...sion-3-rail-soo-line  About as close as we will get to the photo.

The other schemes have been offered in the past on other cars by Weaver.

Anybody offer where that CNJ photo was taken? Possibly on Reading somewhere near Philly?

Never saw this photo before.

Thanks.

Walter M. Matuch

PS: I'd buy the A-B 'babyface if MTH made. Use Alco FA chassis and trucks, tooling modification from Centipedes. Make in CNJ (3 different schemes blue/orange - green/yellow stripes and all green) - MoPac - NYC prototypical and then PRR , SAL, NdeM and UP fantasy (logical too)

Walter Matuch posted:

Anybody offer where that CNJ photo was taken? Possibly on Reading somewhere near Philly?

Never saw this photo before.

Thanks.

Walter M. Matuch

PS: I'd buy the A-B 'babyface if MTH made. Use Alco FA chassis and trucks, tooling modification from Centipedes. Make in CNJ (3 different schemes blue/orange - green/yellow stripes and all green) - MoPac - NYC prototypical and then PRR , SAL, NdeM and UP fantasy (logical too)

Walter. Here is more picture information: 

-Johan

Long Island Baldwin in brunswick green!!!

I've probably posted this at least 15 times(MTH), with no success....ATLAS HO did it. NJT Alp45-DP and a 2-pack of Bombardier cars(Coach and Cab Control Coach).

Weaver did something strange with the Grand Trunk Western 40' double-door box car graphics.

Andrew

All of Weavers graphics were undersized in later years printed by a local supplier. I alerted Joe but the issue was never resolved.

I never saw the Weaver Models Grand Trunk Western 40' double-door box cars in person, just the catalog approximate photos.

Did those GTW 40' dd box cars actually make it to production, or were they cancelled like so many other cars I was hoping to get from Weaver?