Groupee's?
As the gap widens between transition-era and modern-day time periods, modelers
of the 1960's and early 1970's can be left behind. I am trying to organize an
email campaign to the major model railroad manufacturers in an effort to
produce these highly-needed, long-unavailable, quality HO scale models. If you
feel that these items are essential to your modeling efforts, I invite you to
copy and paste the body of this message into a new email and forward it on your
own behalf to the model manufacturers. I have also provided a contact list that
you can use to forward the message.
athearn@athearn.com
bowser@bowser-trains.com
hoscale@atlasrr.com
info@exactrail.com
info@foxvalleymodels.com
rapido3@rapidotrains.com
tangentscalemodels@yahoo.com
sales@blmamodels.com
info@broadway-limited.com
intermountain@intermountain-railway.com
custserv@walthers.com
1. A U25C/U28C in plastic, with all the different phases represented. A
highly-detailed shell and a solid mechanism with optional sound and DCC,
lettered for NP, CB&Q, and BN plus post-merger renumbered versions. This
locomotive is marketable across the United States through the many roads that
owned them. More U25C/U28C's were produced than over a dozen other locomotives
that are currently available in highly-detailed HO scale models.
2. Accurate 50' combination door/double door boxcars. Both the Athearn and
Accurail combo door boxcars do not have the requisite 6' right-hand door
opening to make them accurate. Number series for these cars would be NP's
3882-3999, 5000-5295, CB&Q's 47500-47789, 49000-49399, GN's 38000-38299, and
subsequent BN number series. While each of these car series has subtle detail
differences, the model could be engineered in such a way that several different
types of doors could be used to reasonably represent all of the above. Cars
from each railroad could also be found in at least two different paint schemes:
NP Brown, Dark Green and Cascade Green, CB&Q Chinese Red or Cascade Green, GN
Glacier Green or Big Sky Blue, and BN Cascade Green with full billboard
lettering, 80's "stealth" lettering, or 90's "Tri-line" lettering. Not a single
50' boxcar on the market today even comes close to these. Modeler's Choice
marketed a styrene kit but they are unavailable today.
3. International Car Co. Wide Vision Caboose. The Atlas model is close, but the
cupola is not tall enough for most western railroads. If a modern caboose model
was designed in the same way as the Walthers passenger cars (i.e. a central
"core", with interchangeable sides, ends, roofs, and cupolas,) a well-detailed
model could be produced in nearly every railroad that had these cars.
4. AC&F 5250 cu ft. 4-Bay grain hoppers i.e. GN 171250-171449. The same 57' 11"
body could be fitted with a 3-Bay floor and be correct for CB&Q 86200-86699,
FW&D 3051-3150, BN 453100-453589, 455800-455999. The Athearn model similar to
these is horribly cumbersome by today's standards.
5. FGE 50' Mechanical Refrigerator Cars i.e. WFCX (GN) 8100-8199, WFEX (GN)
800-849, BRMX (CB&Q) 120-149, NPM 100-149, various BNFE number series.
Currently available only as a resin kit from WrightTrack Models.
6. General American 4,500 cu ft. i.e. GN 171050-171099, CB&Q 85700-86199, and
BN 451200-451599. Nothing even close is currently available.
7. PC&F 40' Mechanical Refrigerator Cars i.e. NPM 501-525, WFEX (GN) 7900-7949.
Nothing even close is currently available.
Micheal Farley
Stirring the pot somewhere in North Dakota
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