Unless I've missed a more recent offering, it's been 5 years since MTH offered Premier center beams. I could definitely use some more TTX, BNSF, and NS.
The 2019 run had the loads super glued in place on the TTX cars for some reason so they're was no way to remove them without breaking the tabs that hold them in place.
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Which version of the center beam flat cars?
The 1980's opera window or oval openings center beam flat car needs to be produced in schemes of:
CNA yellow
TTZX TT TRAILER TRAIN
DESTICON TRANSPORTATION
MSRC MIDSOUTH RAIL
and many others.
Andrew
@Will Ebbert posted:Unless I've missed a more recent offering, it's been 5 years since MTH offered Premier center beams. I could definitely use some more TTX, BNSF, and NS.
The 2019 run had the loads super glued in place on the TTX cars for some reason so they're was no way to remove them without breaking the tabs that hold them in place.
Will,
If you are familiar with the MTH center beam cars, how different are they from the catalog renderings from Atlas for their recent announcement?
I wasn’t interested in these cars when MTH used to offer them as I had never seen them in person, until earlier this year when I started getting involved with Forestry / Logging machines, at work and saw many of these cars during my visit to Western Oregon.
I saw a few different styles. One even had depressed / lower middle portion. I reserved all 4 of the TTX cars from Atlas’ announcement, as I saw a lot of the TTX cars, in person, but I would be interested in the MTH version, if they represent a center beam car from a different freight car manufacturer.
These are just my opinion,
Naveen Rajan
From my understanding the MTH mold is based on the former Thrall (now Trinity) design, whereas the Atlas version appears to be based on the Greenbrier design. The major differences I see between the two are in the beam and the horizontal end bulkhead supports; the Greenbrier design uses an open beam truss with five horizontal end bulkhead supports, whereas the Thrall features a partial partition with a shorter open truss (or a totally solid partition with opera window cutouts) and two horizontal end bulkhead supports. Some MTH cars even have the Thrall car logo stamped on the car sill; this is seen particularly on the 20-93531 Union Pacific and 20-98848 CSX Center Beam cars.
-John
@falconservice posted:Which version of the center beam flat cars?
The 1980's opera window or oval openings center beam flat car needs to be produced in schemes of:
CNA yellow
TTZX TT TRAILER TRAIN
DESTICON TRANSPORTATION
MSRC MIDSOUTH RAIL
and many others.
Andrew
Agreed! I have been banging that drum too.
The MTH cars are quite nice, but this Atlas announcement is really exciting. I like that prototype better anyway and they're available in 2 rail.
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