New RMT boxcars...sneak peek!

Walter, when will your box cars be here?

jim sutter... RMT-96432-5 US NAVY-Battleship New Jersey scheduled to arrive Fall 2024.

Thanks.

Walter

Jimmy...I miss your store!

Whatever happened with the 35' or 36' reefers? Preordered 1 year ago. Was it all for nothing?

jini5...35ft woodside reefers start arriving early Fall depending upon what roadnames come first.

Walter/RMT

Thats a sharp looking car Walter   

Walter, the detailing looks great & I love that they have a load. Are you considering more road names possibly with Midwest railroads.

bluelinec4...Thanks Ben. Wait until you see the ARMY-AIR FORCE-MARINES-COAST GUARD and NAVY-Pearl Harbor box cars.

Dave Ripp... Yes.

Walter/RMT

Wow! That is a really nice boxcar for 35 bucks. I am a boxcar collector and I can see a lot of these in my collection if they are released in the right liveries.

That's a really nice looking car, Walter!!

Thank you Walter for missing our store.

Mike D...give me some roadname ideas.

Walter/RMT

@RMT - Ready Made Trains posted:

Mike D...give me some roadname ideas.

Walter/RMT

Lets see

EJ&E

LNE

DL&W

EL

CNJ

C&EI

NY Cross Harbor

Morristown & Erie

@RMT - Ready Made Trains posted:

Mike D...give me some roadname ideas.

Walter/RMT

I have ordered several already - here are my suggestions:

1) Strasburg Railroad in Passenger car colors (red and black, gold stripping, current RR logo)

2) Strasburg Railroad Freight - standard boxcar brown with normal lettering, SRR logo in white lettering

3) New Hope & Ivyland - Like the ballast hoppers you are making for NH&I

4) Norfolk & Western Express boxcar - tuscan red N&W colors with dulux gold lettering, black roof, like their passenger cars. 

Thanks for the consideration!  If I have to pick only one, it would the Strasburg boxcar in the passenger colors. 

Walter, that’s a great looking boxcar. I would be interested in some if painted in prototypical paint schemes. It’s a lot cheaper than Lionel and looks just as nice.

I ordered the C&O Pat’s Trains is offering and a couple woodside reefers.

@RMT - Ready Made Trains  is there a list of sellers on your website where we can order some of these from?  These look outstanding!

Just like @bluelinec4 said.........The North East Anthracite roads CNJ(Central of NJ) LV(Lehigh Valley), LNE(Lehigh and New England) Erie, Reading......Please

Hudson J1e... Thanks for this nice compliment ... It’s a lot cheaper than Lionel and looks just as nice.

As a train guy myself I know how much pricing can affect your 'railroad's growth' with regards to freight car roster. I appreciate your support.

Walter/RMT

bluelinec4 and maxandy and M J Breen...you will all be happy when more roadname boxcars are announced. I like those roadnames too!

straphanger...check with your hobbystore train dealer and get him to order for you. RMT dealer list is always evolving and right now there are over 200 dealers in USA and Canada that can carry RMT trains.

Walter/RMT

I'd be interested in CN and CV worm boxcars, brown with yellow doors and maybe D&H.

Walter- Love the new cars. I ordered a pair of the NYC Pacemaker's from Pat's.

I'm piling on here but L&NE, D&H, LIRR.

And as I've stated previously, the BAR State of Maine Potatoes.....

Bob

@RMT - Ready Made Trains posted:

Mike D...give me some roadname ideas.

Walter/RMT

Walter,

How about standard Army boxcars for intra-plant transportation?

Specifically, I have an idea that will compliment Pat's Army Ore Cars & that classic Lionel Switcher

Email is in my profile if you want to discuss more.

Bryce

I would like to see the Remington Arms light blue boxcars that use to be at the Bridgeport CT factory.

The Navy boxcar with no graphics would be a nice car to add decals.

@DMASSO posted:

The Navy boxcar with no graphics would be a nice car to add decals.

Personally, less is more! All of the importers do the same with too much extra graphics. The USS New Jersey graphics look nice, blah, blah, blah. How about just military cars without all of the extra “slop” of a specific unit, ship, or plane?

Don't forget PRR

Thanks....russ

I was going to make a post titled An Affordable Alternative to high priced trains, and discuss Menards and RMT.  Most are familiar with some Menards pieces of rolling stock.  New cars have see through walkways, rotating bearing caps and metal rather than plastic trucks.  Menards seems to be slowly adding more detail or features to its line of rolling stock.  The pseudo wooden decks of it's flatcars or with automotive loads are a very nice touch!

RMT trains was recently purchased by Emery Distributors, a major distributor of O Gauge trains and supplies.  I don't think the Matauch (spelling) family is involved with this new venture.  Emery is trying to focus on 1/4 scale prototypical rolling stock.  To this degree, some of their tooling is old but good K-Line tooling.  Some of the tooling is Emery's alone, and newly developed.  An example are the sawdust high walled "boxcars."  I purchased an assortment of body types to test how nice their cars are.  The tank cars are fully painted, and seem very scale in size.  They sport metal trucks.  The ore cars are K-Line tooling, and as such are as close to scale as K-Line ever made ore cars.  The high walled "boxcars" with sawdust loads are close in width and length to a Lionel PS-1 boxcar, but are not exactly the same.

So whoever started this thread, Menards and now RMT, and two very good sources for approximately $33.00 pieces of rolling stock that can stand up to Lionel's now $100 plus pieces of rolling stock.  There is an old saying - from 6 feet away, you can't tell if these new cars are scale or not.  If requested, I can post pictures of some styles of RMT's new cars.   I think the paint jobs are superb!  I love the Wadell Oil Tank car.  It nicely matches the Wadell Coal Hopper car from MtH and Lionel.

Huh, Walter @RMT - Ready Made Trains just very recently posted on this very thread, seems to be very involved still. Maybe he can verify if RMT has been sold!

donhradio...if I may...correcting parts of your post...

I don't think the Matauch (spelling) family is involved with this new venture. RMT REPLY - Not correct...and spelling is Matuch.

To this degree, some of their tooling is old but good K-Line tooling.  The ore cars are K-Line tooling, RMT REPLY - Not correct... All RMT tooling is brand new - made exclusively for RMT and nothing is any older Kline tooling.

and as such are as close to scale as K-Line ever made ore cars. RMT REPLY  -not correct... Kline did make ore cars

RMT's new cars.   I think the paint jobs are superb!  RMT REPLY - thank you...as a model railroader and retired railroad brakeman and conductor CNJ-RV-EL-US ARMY-CR-US NAVY, all RMT paint schemes are inspired by prototype railroads using paint colors, hand drawn lettering/logo artworks and references that will look appropriate on just about any model railroad. I run all the RMT cars on my home layout and the CNJ-Jersey Central Lines is my favorite! RMT will continue to offer those obscure railroads, shortlines and industrial roadnames that you do not normally see in 3-rail o-gauge trains in addition to steam/diesel era mainline railroads.

darrell...RMT is working with Emery Distributors, the family owners of Emery I have known for over 30 years. This association has allowed RMT to expand into over 200 hobby store train dealers in USA and Canada. Emery is the exclusive distributor for RMT products.

Thank you both for taking the time to post about RMT.

To keep updated with future RMT products, I would suggest joining the RMT email list. Go to...  www.readymadetoys.com ...to sign up.

Thanks.

Walter/RMT

Through the wonders of photo shop, Walter is the engineer on an RMT BEEP Jersey Central diesel.

Walter, thank you for clarifying those questions.  Thank you for making such wonderful cars and engines more affordable.  As a retiree, I appreciate it!!

I’m looking forward to seeing what the other road names/paint schemes will look like. I definitely want to order a couple of these boxcars. If I was Lionel, MTH or Atlas I would be a little worried.

Well they look good. Plastic frame, may need a little weight added. Maybe.

Jim 1939... Well they look good. Plastic frame, may need a little weight added. Maybe.

RMT REPLY-These new RMT o-scale Premium box car weigh 15oz as per NMRA standards, have metal diecast trucks and also have a diecast underframe. Only the floor and boxcar body are plastic. They roll well and stay on the track great. So you should not need to add any additional weight.

Walter/RMT

@RMT - Ready Made Trains posted:

To this degree, some of their tooling is old but good K-Line tooling.  The ore cars are K-Line tooling, RMT REPLY - Not correct... All RMT tooling is brand new - made exclusively for RMT and nothing is any older Kline tooling.

Walter, I don't know how you can make this claim. The RMT cars look exactly the same as the K-Line ore cars down to the rivet detail. So either the same mold has been used or your manufacturer has replicated the K-Line mold. (Even the ore load mold is the same or a replica of the K-Line mold.)

Matt GNo27...Walter, I don't know how you can make this claim.

RMT REPLY- your statement seemingly is not based upon any knowledge of RMT tooling nor tooling origin. Your statement has no merit. As previously stated...All RMT tooling is brand new - made exclusively for RMT and nothing is any older Kline tooling. End of story.

Walter/RMT

@RMT - Ready Made Trains   How about some 34' two-bay hoppers?  I need several trains-worth of them!

@RMT - Ready Made Trains posted:

Matt GNo27...Walter, I don't know how you can make this claim.

RMT REPLY- your statement seemingly is not based upon any knowledge of RMT tooling nor tooling origin. Your statement has no merit. As previously stated...All RMT tooling is brand new - made exclusively for RMT and nothing is any older Kline tooling. End of story.

Walter/RMT

Walter, of course my statement has merit, but I think that it is a matter of semantics. You have said elsewhere that it's "totally new tooling owned and designed by RMT." It's apparent that you and I have different views of what "totally new" means.

To me, "totally new" means designed from scratch. In other words, the designer of the tooling got information about the prototype—from photos, plans, seeing/measuring the prototype in-person—without any input from previous models. For example, it is easily obvious that the MTH and Lionel ore cars were each made with "totally new" tooling from the Atlas/K-Line/RMT ore cars. (Or, if the Lionel cars were made first, the MTH and Atlas/K-Line/RMT cars were each made with totally new tooling.)

The RMT 967xx-series ore cars have either used the original molds used for the K-Line car or a facsimile of the original mold or you made your own facsimile of the original mold, and then made a change or two. (The same is true for the ore car load.) What I would call an "updated" mold, you are calling "totally new." Understood.

Matt, I also compared the RMT ore car side by side with a K-Line ore car.  I could not find any difference, but I am old, and my eyesight may not be the best. :-) The decoration is certainly ALL NEW, and very well done!  I will continue to purchase RMT and Menards over the other 3.  $120 for a boxcar is RIDICULOUS! Lionel's ore cars are a bit more narrow, and I believe there is a slight difference in length.  My Lionel ore cars are all buried in moving boxes, yet, so I could not do a direct comparison.

I can't wait to get my hands on the new PS-1 boxcars!  They sound at least as good as Lionel, with real brake chains, and a perforated platform for the brakeman to stand on.  The underside also sounds exciting.  Also can't wait to see the 36' advertising box cars.  Their underside may or may not be like the prototype with it's under-slung cables tensioning the car's floor.  However if the boxcar is true scale, the car's are a winner regardless of their under frame.

@RMT - Ready Made Trains posted:

Mike D...give me some roadname ideas.

Walter/RMT

I know you didn't ask me, but I'd second the request for EJ&E --I'd also love an EJ&E split-cover coil car.

I mentioned a few days ago I preordered boxcars and reefers from Pat’s Trains,  I forgot to mention I ordered an in stock Western Maryland 2-bay hopper as well.  It looks great with my Lionel and MTH cars.  I need to make up a train with my WM BEEP!  Well done, Walter!