RK Imperial Steam Wish List

NYC Niagara for sure!

A DM&IR Yellowstone would be a must have for me. I don't see it happening anytime soon though as it would require new tooling. Or how about a Seaboard 2-6-6-4. 

My Imperial wish list?

I wish for the new PS3 steam to coast to a stop in conventional. Until then, I will not buy another MTH PS3 steamer. 

Oh, the trains? Their RTR 2-8-0 as a  "tricked out" Imperial offering, I think, would produce many sales. If it coasted in conventional, I'd be a  buyer. 

I do have the Imperial ES44 Evolution Hybrid on order - very excited to get it. Always liked that engine and finally placed an order with my LHS. 

Thank you for the suggestions!

NYC ESE set.

SIC, I like your idea for an Imperial version of the 2-8-0.  It would be awfully hard for me to resist one of those.

SouthernMike posted:

A DM&IR Yellowstone would be a must have for me. I don't see it happening anytime soon though as it would require new tooling. Or how about a Seaboard 2-6-6-4. 

 

Now your talking I would save up money to get one.Because they ran through my neck of the woods.Monroe n.c yea I would go for one.

An I-5 New Haven Hudson. With RK Osgood Bradley cars in Hunter Green.

Peter

A Reading I-8 (Camelback) or I-9 consolidation. These were the mainstay power of the Reading's branch line operations in Southeast PA.

I'm all in for an NYC Niagara.  I would also like to see a PRR J1.  The drivetrain already exists with the Decapod.

A vote for the NYC Niagara for Rail King done to Lionmaster dimensions and proportionality!

I've been patiently waiting for a PRR 4-4-4-4 imperial. Still waiting...

I have been requesting a NYC Niagara for several years. Recently Mike Wolf informed me that MTH is looking into retooling their Union Pacific 4-8-4 to produce the Niagara and save money by not having to have a new die made for it.

Ed G. Westchester County, NY.

This Rail King 2-8-0  already exists in other railroad liveries. The Long Island Rail Road had a fleet of these H Class engines, but MTH has not made this Rail King engine in Long Island livery. With some added details and Long Island livery, there will be a lot of happy Long Islander customers if MTH makes this Rail King 2-8-0 available.

Added details should include a directional back light on the tender, crew figures in the cab, red LED marker lights on the back of the tender, blackened drivers and rods and an operating front coupler.

An I-5 an I-5, my kingdom for an I-5.

Tom, I have haunted Mike Wolf to do the I-5.  He is very strong holding his ground stating he will not do one.  He showed it and stated he did not get the orders.  I had to go against my  NO BRASS policy and get a Weaver and trick it out.

Good morning, a Pennsy K4S would be nice with Altoona passenger station sounds.

hi Marty can you show a picture of your new brass engine all tricked out!

Alan

i would like to see MTH produce a big boy like the Lionel vlbb only better and more detail would definitely buy one for sure. MTH Makes better engines then Lionel

Alan

A RK Imperial NYC Niagara and NYC Berkshire. The Berkshire was offered a few years ago but I missed out on it.

Marty, Thanks for your effort. I may have to go to my grave unfulfilled, but I'll never give up hope. By the way, was the weaver conversion a really difficult job and did you raise it to P 3. Hard to believe there aren't enough Shore  Line fans to warrant a production run. Maybe while at the  Big E at the end of the month, I'll try to lobby Rich Melvin and Jim Barrett for an article on that upgrade. Cheers, Tom

Here is my Weaver I-5.   It was upgraded to PS-3.  The only tough part was locating the 10 pin receiver in the locomotive.   This was the last Weaver I-5 done and it was done up with TAS boards and TAS smoke.  The smoke fluid reservoir was smaller than an MTH unit.  I had to shoe horn the smoke resistors in so they would not touch the metal sides and short out.  It was worth the effort as it smokes like a steam locomotive.  This engine has sprung drivers and pickup rollers in the tender.  The gearing in these locomotives is fantastic.  It will crawl without jerking at 1 MPH.  I am a die cast guy but this was the only way I could go.  

 I can remember seeing these locomotives run.   I lived on the New Haven main line while school was in and lived with my aunt and uncle in Pennsylvania summer time watching the mighty GG-1 every day.   My parents would take me down to the tracks many times each week to watch trains.  My home was behind the New Haven Readville Car shops.  We would always look for what was known to me as the bullet train.  My Mother worked at the Readville shops from the start of WW-2 until about 1950.  She is still alive (93 years) and has told me the train we called the bullet train was the I-5 Hudson.   My Mother went to St Anns school in Readville and often talks about watching the Comet fly by the school.  I would guess every kid was stuck to the window.  I would have been.  Great New Haven stuff.

Just one word Marty "Beautiful"

Gee, what an awesome model! I don't believe I have the technical expertise to accomplish what you've done Marty. But I feel inspired to start researching the process. Thanks.