I would love to see an A4 Locomotive (Mallard, Union of South Africa, Sir Nigel Gresley) with a full consist of 13 Brass LNER Gresley Teak Corridor Coaches be offered by 3rd Rail. The British (Rocket, Stevenson) introduced the locomotive in 1838. This would be an awesome project for 3rd Rail and should be limited to no more than 200 sets to be bought over a 2 year period. That would make it affordable. Three Rail AC & DC with smoke & sound as options.
Steam: New Haven Mountain (with or without vandy tender)
Diesel: Highly accurate and road specific RS3's
Passenger: LIRR P72's...Goodfellow and MTA.
I mentioned the GGD heavyweights earlier in the thread, I specifically want a set of B&O heavyweights. Missed them the first time around and they are almost impossible to find on the secondary market.
Other items I want to have:
- E8/9 done in the late era B&O paint scheme (solid blue with yellow trim.) Not nearly as flashy as the earlier paint scheme, but is more representative of locomotives in the mid 60's.
- Reading K-1
Jim
As previously echoed on here several times, l too would quickly spring for one of the C&O Mikados . Even though they ran nowhere near the East Slope.
Also would like to see the C&O K2 or K3 Mikados. Make both the Vandy tender and the rectangular tender versions and I would buy one of each.
The C&O Pullman Standard passenger cars with the fluting only below the windows. These were ordered by the C&O and NKP but some also wound up on the D&RGW, D&H, B&O, ACL, SCL, NYC, and Amtrak.
Ken
B&O Big Six. I believe these were done 14 years ago.
yankspride4 posted: ..... Diesel: Highly accurate and road specific RS3' .....
I omitted ALCO RS-3 because it has been discussed here in the past, and Scott from 3rd Rail stated that the thinking was ... that it had been sufficiently produced by other manufacturers already. But ....
I'll put on a deposit down on two northeastern railroad RS-3's
Jim
prrhorseshoecurve posted:Also the PRR "Yellow Kid"
YES!!!!!!
PRR D16sb 4-4-0 [can also be lettered for Strasburg RR]
YES!!!!!!
PRR E1 4-4-2 Camelback [ also in Reading and LIRR!]
YES!!!!!!
EBT Jim posted:yankspride4 posted: ..... Diesel: Highly accurate and road specific RS3' .....I omitted ALCO RS-3 because it has been discussed here in the past, and Scott from 3rd Rail stated that the thinking was ... that it had been sufficiently produced by other manufacturers already. But ....
I'll put on a deposit down on two northeastern railroad RS-3's
Jim
I understand, but I would love to see a 3rd Rail version...fixed pilots...canon drives...oh man! Give me a LIRR in Goodfellow and a NYC Lighting Stripe!
Anything steam in CP or CN!
SP P-14
SP 4-8-2 any Mountain class non-streamlined
SP AC-12
DM&IR N-3 2-8-2 grey boiler with top mount air tanks
After the SD40-2s are produced (fingers crossed), SD60/60I/60M.
Also GP40P/PH-2
NEW HAVEN Mountain.
milwrd posted:I second Scale City's Milwaukee Road Mallet 2-6-6-2 request. I wouldn't mined a 4-8-4 S2 Northern or even a 2-6-2 Prairie Class either. Milwaukee Road of course.
I also support making of a Milwaukee Road Mallet in O gauge. In fact, producing the one in your picture would be perfect!
I also would love to see someone make a tinplate version in Standard Gauge.
Bob Nelson
C&O SD18's
Super Chief Rerun!
Mopac Colorado Eagle
An Alco RS3 the only true to scale was Weavers and who knows who has the dies.We definitely need a true to scale version.Erie EL and NKP
How about a Milwaukee Road Fairbanks Morse Erie built.
I would like a re run of the NYC 1938 20TH Century Limited in two rail. I had the original release of this train from Scott, but each car weighed almost four lb. and I had no engine that could pull a train of them. The new cars should have LED's with off-on switches, and NO wipers, and weigh no more than his most recent production. I have "a few" Dreyfuss Hudsons, and no train for them to pull.....
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Santa Fe heavyweight chair cars.
SD40-2s are a long way out guys. We are gonna get some filler in there
OK. I'll get on my knees and beg. Milwaukee SDL-39s.
Dick
ogaugeguy posted:Rerun of the Strasburg Mollies
And/or Strasburg 2-10-0 #90
EBN posted:In my opinion, 3rd Rail would be excellent at making detailed models of the:
Norfolk and Western Class A
and
D&RGW L-105 Challenger
drgw.net
hmmm a L-105 i would like that one as well
Any interest in a re-run of the E7s with some upgraded tooling to get more variety in the pilots and offer some new road names and or new paint schemes on ones that have already been done? Perhaps Powered B units in 3 rail? I'm just thinking off the top of my head of some roads that might work in addition to ones that have been done already:
PRR - Keystones & stripe only
Penn Central
NYC Cigar Band
ACL
B&O and C&O late scheme
C&NW
Illinois Central
L&N
Mopac
Wabash
The tooling is 5 years old now if you can believe it. A rerun would allow for some great improvements.
GG1 4877 posted:Any interest in a re-run of the E7s with some upgraded tooling to get more variety in the pilots and offer some new road names and or new paint schemes on ones that have already been done? Perhaps Powered B units in 3 rail? I'm just thinking off the top of my head of some roads that might work in addition to ones that have
The tooling is 5 years old now if you can believe it. A rerun would allow for some great improvements.
Interesting. How would the current owners would react to "improved tooling" units? Are the GGD customers big on re-runs of already done paint schemes as well?
How about the Rio Grande EMD F9 Locomotives #5771 and others used to pull the Rio Grande Zephyr and Ski Train. Would also like to see the RIO Grande Passenger Cars from GGD. Cheers Don
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GG1 4877 posted:Any interest in a re-run of the E7s with some upgraded tooling to get more variety in the pilots and offer some new road names and or new paint schemes on ones that have already been done? Perhaps Powered B units in 3 rail? I'm just thinking off the top of my head of some roads that might work in addition to ones that have been done already:
PRR - Keystones & stripe only
Penn Central
NYC Cigar Band
ACL
B&O and C&O late scheme
C&NW
Illinois Central
L&N
Mopac
Wabash
The tooling is 5 years old now if you can believe it. A rerun would allow for some great improvements.
I'd be in for some Mopac E7s!!
also SP Golden State red/silver
I would think with some of the more popular engines such as E7's, F7's, PA's etc. Scott could offer them every couple years in reruns with some staple paint schemes that will always sell such as SF warbonnet F7's along with some specialty schemes that change and are catered to specific passenger trains on deck for GGD; such as the empire builder or north coast Limited. In all honesty I can name maybe 6 or 8 different paint schemes in each of the engines I named that I would order. However, only having one or two chances at them limits what I can order. I don't have the cash to order 5 or 6 ABBA sets at once 
and I imagine few of us do. I am still cringing at my decision to not order SF warbonnet PA's but I had to go with SP Daylight for my Sunset Limited and Silver Aspen for my CZ. I rolled the dice hoping that the SF warbonnet would be an obvious candidate in a rerun. However, I still want the NYC lightning stripe and Mopac PA's too.
This is merely intended to offer an idea. I do not pretend to know how to run anything. Scott imo is doing an incredible job at bringing unique models to market and I will always sing his praises for it!
BobbyD posted:GG1 4877 posted:Any interest in a re-run of the E7s with some upgraded tooling to get more variety in the pilots and offer some new road names and or new paint schemes on ones that have already been done? Perhaps Powered B units in 3 rail? I'm just thinking off the top of my head of some roads that might work in addition to ones that have
The tooling is 5 years old now if you can believe it. A rerun would allow for some great improvements.
Interesting. How would the current owners would react to "improved tooling" units? Are the GGD customers big on re-runs of already done paint schemes as well?
I would think it would be like any other manufacturer that does re-runs. Processes and techniques improve over time. The basic E7 tool is very accurate with the right proportions so it is still the benchmark that no one else has caught up to outside of brass. If you recall the E7 had two runs originally and a third when it was done for the GM Train of Tomorrow.
The F7 rerun has done well so far and that just came out last year so it seems that some of the other diesels might be worth redoing for those who have seen them perform and seen the quality of the finish product.
I would buy FP45s in the ATSF Superfleet scheme and maybe a Kodachrome too.
RM
yankspride4 posted:EBT Jim posted:yankspride4 posted: ..... Diesel: Highly accurate and road specific RS3' .....I omitted ALCO RS-3 because it has been discussed here in the past, and Scott from 3rd Rail stated that the thinking was ... that it had been sufficiently produced by other manufacturers already. But ....
I'll put on a deposit down on two northeastern railroad RS-3's
Jim
I understand, but I would love to see a 3rd Rail version...fixed pilots...canon drives...oh man! Give me a LIRR in Goodfellow and a NYC Lighting Stripe!
That's a bummer.
I'd certainly commit to two RS-3's:
- CNJ Toothpaste Striped
- Lehigh Valley
I would be in the market for the NYC "reversed grey" (aka light grey carbody with dark grey and silver striping) E7's. (There were only a few originally painted this way.) The only "E" that I would be interested would be one that would run about 80 scale mph on 12 VDC. I passed on the earlier NYC "E" release because I heard they were way too slow, about 50 mph. When the NYC was alive and well and running E units, they were below 5 mph for about four seconds.......so I happen to believe that very low speed performance for a passenger locomotive is not critical.
Hello Jonathan hope things are going well for you.
In answer to your question:
“Any interest in a re-run of the E7s with some upgraded tooling to get more variety in the pilots and offer some new road names and or new paint schemes PRR - Keystones & stripe only…
Penn Central
NYC Cigar Band
ACL
B&O and C&O late scheme
C&NW
Illinois Central
L&N
Mopac
Wabash
The tooling is 5 years old now if you can believe it. A rerun would allow for some great improvements.”
From my perspective, I do think the E7’s could be produced again, but, and I spoke with Scott on this subject when the E8/9’s were announced, I think there is a disconnect in that when the passenger engines are announced without a reasonable passenger car consist in sight (be it 3rd rail, MTH, Lionel or Atlas) it makes it hard for the operator to pull the trigger for an order in the hopes that “someday” a reasonable passenger car set becomes available.
From Scotts point of view he indicated that it would be difficult to match a passenger car consist up with every engine, and I get that, but, I do think people are not reserving passenger based engines because of this condition, not because of the engine or road name selected.
I think Walthers or BWL is and has been doing a named train series and many of the past selections have sold out. Of course, as you get past the big 5 SF, PRR, NYC, UP CBQ, you will start to run into limited demand.
Myself, I would like three of the named trains based on the road names you have selected.
Illinois Central – City of New Orleans or Panama Limited.
C&NW – “400”
Wabash – Blue Bird
I’m not even sure you have to deliver the whole set at the same time, but rather indicate “in good faith” the after the engines are delivered a set of proper passengers cars will be announced in the future – I think that reason alone would spur people to secure an engine(s) reservation.
If a particular engine does not garner enough reservations then of course building the cars becomes a moot point. For sure it is a delicate balancing act trying to guess what the market will bear and not have projects drag on over many years as was the Atlas California Zephyr set.
Hope that helps.
Charlie
Now that Scott has announced Amfleet cars, how about scale Superliner cars? Please.
I'd buy superliners and budd hi-level cars
Looking forward to my hi-levels to arrive this week in Amtrak. Granted in phase I prior to being converted to HEP, but still excited to mix them with my GGD and K-line single level phase I Amtrak cars. I'd love to see some quality Superliners. I went after a pair of K-line ones on the bay a while back and they went for $225 a car used.
Jonathan, that's not that far off of car price from Scott.
