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UPDATE 8-31-2024

RMT has recently announced some new PS-1 style true scale boxcars that will be arriving this Fall at your local train store hobby dealer. They include many new and exciting  detail features like: 15oz NMRA weight standard, scale length-width-height (not the smaller traditional size 0-27 style boxcar), easily adaptable to other Kdee style couplers, newly designed free-rolling metal trucks with operating diecast couplers - roller bearing style sideframes including simulated air hose, manual and magnetic uncoupling ability, metal end steps-roofwalks-brakewheel chain, separately applied ladders-grabirons-brakewheel, painted interior floor deck and diecast metal underbody piping w/air tank.

Here are some exclusive photos of the 96432-5 US NAVY-Battleship New Jersey Commemorative box car...

pre-order yours today at your favorite toy train hobby store dealer. Suggested retail is $34.95...yes that is the correct pricing!OGR-1 #96432-5OGR-2 #96432-5.3OGR-3 #96432-5.4OGR-4 #96432-5.5OGR-5 #96432-5.8OGR-6 #96432-5.7..

Thanks.

Walter/RMT

Join the RMT mailing list at... www.readymadetoys.com ... to receive the newest RMT announcements...more boxcar roadnames will be listed soon.

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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. 

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 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.

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

BEEP-WMM

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

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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



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

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.

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