New Model Suggestion: O Master Line 64' Trinity Reefer (Tropicana, UP)

This one is over due in O scale.  I would be in for a few...

Yes, please.  The southbound Juice Train seen here is crossing the Long Bridge from DC into VA in August of 2014.

I would buy 10 of those in O scale in a heartbeat.

I used to live close to the Tropicana plant in Florida. Watched those trains load up and start their journey North.

@ESPEE 8722 posted:

Yes, please.  The southbound Juice Train seen here is crossing the Long Bridge from DC into VA in August of 2014.

If that's heading south, they are empties bound for the Tropicana plant in Bradenton Florida.  4 Billion oranges get processed there annually. It's truly an impressive operation.

Check this article about the plant. Look inside Tropicana plant in Bradenton reveals manufacturing operation with precise processes, staggering numbers | Business Observer | Business Observer (businessobserverfl.com)

@vash44

Not trying to sidetrack your thread.  But you got me excited about a long past memory and hopefully I have created interest in Atlas producing this, Reefer. As I said, "I would buy 10".

I’m afraid that they would be $200 a car.

Weaver produced a Tropicana car and so did MTH; there should be some of those floating around on the used market.

The Weaver cars are 57'. These 64' cars are more modern.

The MTH cars were Amtrak MHCs masquerading with a paint job.

I'd be interested in these 64' cars.

@PRRMP54 posted:

Weaver produced a Tropicana car and so did MTH; there should be some of those floating around on the used market.

Dave,

The MTH model was just a boxcar painted tropicana. The Weaver model was a decent model for the 70’s and 80’s and never wore this kind of paint scheme.

It's more then just Tropicana.......these cars  are in use by Cryo-Trans, UP, BNSF and others.......the O-scale market needs more modern freight cars and these would be welcome......

@SusieQ posted:

It's more then just Tropicana.......these cars  are in use by Cryo-Trans, UP, BNSF and others.......the O-scale market needs more modern freight cars and these would be welcome......

AGREE!!

Ooh, yes! These cars are some of the last reefers out there and the only ones you can really model for modern stuff. I'd love to have a nice collection of these to drag around. I'd be great to see Atlas do these as they already have the model from their HO and N lines and this way they will make in 2 rail as well.

I would be in for quite a few. The more modern freight cars offered the better. These are some I would particularly like to have.

They (HO and N) always get the good stuff, lol.

Dave

@Surefire posted:

I would be in for quite a few. The more modern freight cars offered the better. These are some I would particularly like to have.

@Surefire  Count me in on that. I like long consists and the Tropicana plant's consists were huge.

Too bad all these are put on junk trains now to New Jersey

BNSF series 793000-793809 built by Trinity (Oklahoma City plant), Job 2829, Feb-01 to Sep-02 is another series of the new Mechanical Refrigerator Cars to produce in O scale

Andrew

@Lehigh Valley Railroad posted:

I’m afraid that they would be $200 a car.

You are thinking of LIONEL prices.

Atlas O could have this car produced for a maximum $100 each with sounds and light powered by the track and rechargeable battery.

Andrew

I would go for some.  Our 1st house was close to the RF&P line.  Used to sit on the deck and watch them heading north and south.

Based on other O scale freight cars they could be priced like this:

Molded in doors version for $70

Operating doors, refrigerator sounds, indicator lights version for $100

Andrew

I definitely like to see some in BNSF and ARMN livery. BLMA already did them in N and HO, so atlas should have the research and artwork.

@falconservice posted:

Based on other O scale freight cars they could be priced like this:

Molded in doors version for $70

Operating doors, refrigerator sounds, indicator lights version for $100

Andrew

I highly doubt that they would be at that price point…

Although welcomed, very unlikely.

@falconservice posted:

Based on other O scale freight cars they could be priced like this:

Molded in doors version for $70

Operating doors, refrigerator sounds, indicator lights version for $100

Andrew

Doubtful. I would assume at least about what the new Gunderson racks are going for, so 100+ for a normal car. I'd pay it