Special Run Cars You'd Like To See Be Done!

Boy, now THAT is a real interesting car. It does seem odd though, that a car advertising Timken Roller bearings has plain bearing trucks?

Weaver also made this car in scale a few years back.

The Dundee Cement hoppers for the Ann Arbor RR.  The Ann Arbor (Orange) grain hoppers.  Both by Atlas O.

Penn Central and AC&Y 40' boxcars

I don't think it does a lick of good posting these desires here...the McKeen car, the Williams' Midado were cancelled, the three rail market was for a very long time stuck in an endless loop of reproducing the same few prototypes it had once done (!Gracias a Dios!) that we've gotten away from that, if not entirely.  Old issues of the hobby magazines are full of all the prototypes, done in HO, kit or brass, that have never appeared in O three rail.

Like auto companies run by professional "managers", with no suspected interest in

cars, just making the most money from toothpaste or whatever "product",(which attitude has not worked for them lately) one wonders if some of the train mfrs. know much about railroad history.

Bobbye Hall (Hallmark) brought in a few side door cabooses in O scale brass.  I could

put a long list of combine, side door, and drover's cabooses on here that probably

offered the largest variety and diversity in a train, behind the locomotives.  Steam

locomotives offered a tremendous variety, and the Shays, Heislers and Climaxes that

HAVE been made available, as well as K-Line's commuter steamer are a start.  Rail

buses and rail cars have been almost entirely ignored in three rail.  Of course, maybe

most of the interest is current railroading, and not historical.  I don't find current railroads and railroading at all interesting. (don't bother me..I am happily living in the

past)

I would love to see a Weaver 50 foot flat car lettered in Silk City Railway with a 35 foot trailer lettered for RHeingold beer!!!

I guess I would like to see those drop-bottom gondolas with the angled lower sides in a fifty dollar car, to match the straight-sided MTH gons.  In die cast . . .  dream on.

Most of us are probably going to end up either scratch-building or settling for a repaint of something "close enough". 

I would to see some old time (20s - 30s) woodsided "billboard" reefers with old time fruit growers labels on them, particularly from Southern California and Washington state. Some of those old labels are just fabulous to look at and it helps us remember a time when the land was more than concrete and strip malls. 

This is not a car, but something for the track:  A Homer Simpson end of track bumper in which Homer goes "Dah!" when his tummy is bumped!

Cars matching Broadway shows:

1.  Green Elixer tanker for WICKED.

2.  Mrs. Lovett Meat Pie Refer for SWEENEY TODD! 

This has been made in N scale and HO scale, now it is time for O Scale.

Weaver Models can produce the Central Vermont Plug-Door 50' Box Cars that have White Sides and Dark Green Lettering, Dark Green Ends with White lettering, and a galvanized roof with overspray. 50 095 - 50 099 number series. All five road numbers have to be produced.

http://imagescn.technomuses.ca/railways/index_choice.cfm?id=61&photoid=1074276079

http://imagescn.technomuses.ca/railways/index_view.cfm?photoid=1074276079&id=61

Andrew

Not prototypical, but fun! If they can make it in G gauge, why not 0?

I got tired of waiting for someone to make this.  Decided to do it myself.   

Tom

It would be great for Bachmann to use the Evans Products Covered coil cars made for K-Line originally to produce special runs of the EP coil cars in the road names and schemes of:

Grand Trunk Western 1960's red-brown

Grand Trunk Western 1970's-1980's blue

Elgin, Joliet & Eastern

EJ&E orange gondola car

EJ&E black gondola car

Chicago & North Western

1980's Safety Yellow coil covers

Andrew

ben, call weaver models and get some prices. you only need to order 100 for a custom run, and you could sell them at trainstock. just make sure you get some for 2 rail too.

Pete

It has been in the works for about 3 weeks now  Waiting on the artwork for the trailer

How about some Amtrak Viewliners.

One each of the Strasburg Passenger Cars. Hello Dolly all the way through to Marian would be a good start.

I know I've shown these every time one of these posts come up and I see no reason to stop now .

Seaboard had a few of these Double-Door Boxcars that have the doors on the end vice centered:

Then there's the Seaboard Round-Roof Boxcars, both single and double-door (not the same as the PRR cars):

It appears Seaboard had a lot of cars that used the Pullman Standard ends (no small darts in between the larger ribs).

ben,  put me down for a 2 rail...

Timken made, natch, roller bearings. Notice the trucks on the Athearn box: plain

(not "friction") bearings. Lionel's PW Timken box was also incorrect. I think other "Timken" cars have also been just as wrong. This is just silly (I'll forgive - but won't

buy - the Lionel).

A "roller bearing" car needs - really? - roller bearing trucks. Duh.

I'll take one in O also!!!

I'd like to see a '70's Auto train set complete with a caboose. 

How about a little fun with some child hood memories

Stretch Armstrong Corn Syrup tank car

Entenmanns Hopper with crumb cake topping load

Bionic Man mission support emergency caboose

(Man I wish they would make that doll again)

Sunrise

Bill:

MTH has already offered the CNJ 1000. Here's a YouTube video of the model:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=xT72_KGA0Ow&NR=1

I own this locomotive as well and it's one of MTH's better efforts.

Bob

Bob, I've seen several of your great videos on YouTube, but not this one.  Thanks for the information. It looks like a great model.

B&OBill

Weaver Models Pullman-Standard 4740 Cu. Ft. Capy. 3-Bay Covered Hoppers in the accurate schemes for:

ILLINOIS CENTRAL GULF 1967-1969 Gray body scheme

Grand Trunk Western 1972 repaint of cars acquired from Canadian National

Milwaukee Road with the signplate for AMERICA'S RESOURCEFUL RAILROAD where the car's body is in the shade of newly applied Bright Yellow.

We do not need a repeat of the weathered, old, dark yellow of the first run that had the 4750 Cu Ft data marking and no signplate for the slogan.

Andrew

TrueLine Trains has announced an HO Scale Canadian refrigerator car that will be offered in Grand Trunk Western.

I would like MTH or Atlas O to offer their Steel 40' Refrigerator Car in the C.N. style G.T.W. refrigerator scheme from 1955. There would have to be 4 road numbers made.

G.T.W.

206400-206499

Built 7-8/1955

in service 10/1955-4/1979

Built by Pacific Car & Foundry

Steel Body 

8 Ice bunkers

I already have one of the 1950's era C.N. refrigerator cars from Lionel, so 4 of the 1950's era G.T.W. refrigerator cars would match the 1950's G.T.W. box cars that have already been made by Lionel, Atlas O, and Weaver.

Andrew

Although I've got more rolling stock than I'd ever use, there are still a few I'd be interested in buying if they we available: 

(1)  Prototypical Boston and Maine "Buggy" (caboose)

(2)  Bangor and Aroostook pulpchip cars

(3)  Bangor and Aroostook/Maine Central pulpwood flatcars

(4)  Seaboard round roof boxcars (thanks, Bob Delbridge for the pix)

(5)  50' Bangor and Aroostook boxcars (red with the triangular 70's herald)

(6)  18" Boston and Maine Pullman-Bradley passenger cars

I think a "rail laying train" Would be the way to go BUT a scale train with 1/4 mile of rail would be over 26 feet long and the rail would have to be made out of plastic/rubber so to go around curves. Also you would need 25 or more flat cars and the cost would be very high.

What about MOW flat cars with rail laying equipment? Flat cars with cement or wood ties?

Undercutter machine?

MOW cars painted in UP's green or other railroad colors?

 Also you would need 25 or more flat cars and the cost would be very high.

The cost would be low if you used the Lionel O-27 starter set flat cars.

Andrew

I know I keep hammering on this one, but I'd like to see the Baldwin 'baby-

face' diesel in an A-A set painted in the CNJ sea-green scheme.

I agree with one of the above posts that trains today are spectacularly

uninteresting.  Every freight train on my road will run with a caboose,

as God intended!

     Hoppy

What I would like to see done is a run of Carpenter Steel or Car-Tech 50 foot gondola cars. The next one would be a run of Blue Mountain and Reading passenger cars from the defunct BMRR. Could somebody do a Reading & Northern diesel engine or set of two diesel engines, a GP-9 or GP-30 would be nice.

Lee F.

Hoppy,

Have you checked out RMT Trains? They make some smaller engines called beeps and that might be what you are looking for.

I love to see cabooses on freight trains as well, just don't seem like a real freight train without a caboose.

Lee F.

 I had hoped Lionel would listen when the guys posted for more Tanktrain unit cars. I think they could be done in Quaker State as posted. I would also hope for more road railers and intermodal types.