I know, I know, it’s early and Martha missed her Pumpkin Paddle across a lake in Nova Scotia but…
What’s new for 2006
New and cheaper sound systems
What’s your prediction?![:(!]
Fergie
Just Look’n for Troll’s to feed the Bears!
Walthers will buy out another model train company
I think someone will beat SpaceMouse to the punch and produce a sub-woofer speaker system that can be mounted under the layout to be used with the tiny little itsy bittsy speakers that we try to hide in the tenders of itsy bittsy HO and N steam locos and they will actually start to sound almost like what a Steam Locomotive more or less sounded like!!! [:D] [:D] [:D]
Maybe?
Mine? Still fewer teens and younger folks will take up the hobby…
BUT!
More in their thirties and older will begin to enjoy Model Railroading as a low cost alternative to hareing all over at $3.00+ per gallon to do other fun things.
Doug, in Utah
Cheap sound. Advances in DCC technology and maybe I will finish my layout.
Are we just making things up here? I guess I might as well say something if that’s what we’re doing.
Tyco will be re-entering the Model Railroad market with a new line of HO trains with quality that blows Atlas, Kato, P2K and Spectrum out of the water with both steam and diesel, with all the popular types of engines and some not yet made in HO trains…at an affordable price of less than $60 for all their products.[:D][:D][:D]
I guess I can always dream.[:)]
is this thread about predictions, or wishes?[%-)] i WISH sound for engines would go down[:D], however i hate to say it , but i doubt it[:(]. i hope i am wrong, but i swear i read somewhere that the new tsunami is going to be$$$$$$. its supposed to be the best out there, but you will pay. perhaps i am in the dark, but i havent herd of ANY sound that is going to be cheap in the next year. OK, i have a prdiction(really a big hope), i predict someone is going to jump in and prove me wrong. PLEASE someone make my prediction come true! i would love to get good cheep sound for my engines.[;)]
I think Darth is on the right track Atlas came out with their econo line in the $50 range and Bachman undercut them in the $30 range with DCC. When people get value at low price, other companies must follow suit. The cheaper sound is also a trend. It has been inflated all along. Call them decoders if you want, but they are computer chips that can be mass produced in Taiwan for a lot less.
More turbines!!![:D] Heh heh, dream on, dream on…
Umm…cheaper sound in HO and N scale, specifically N scale.
While cheaper sound would be nice, I’d like to see some manufacturer come out with a DCC equipped engine ( steam or diesel) that doesn’t require 9 volts to start up. What a drag that your electircal bill will go up with your gasoline bill if you run a lot of todays’ newer engines on your layout.
Decoders for Z-scale, another HO K-4, Hornby will sell plastic live-steamers for $100, BLI will announce that it is closing its doors, and MTH will buy out General Motors.
DIGITRAX will capture a significant market share for sound. Those downloadable sound files will have everyone running down to the rail line to make their own recordings, only to realize that you can’t record on an IPOD or a CD player. Someone will dust off his old casette machine and get the ball rolling.
And maybe manufacturers will start designing locomotives with room for speakers in them.
I predict that in 2006, I will continue kitbashing and molding and fiddle-farting around with N-scale steam locomotives while the manufacturers continue to not produce Pennsy H10’s in anything other than brass.
Attention people who are saying “I hope the price for sound will go down”.
It Has! Soundtraxx recently slashed prices and you can now get a soundtraxx decoder, steam or diesel, with sound and motor control for $45! This is no junk decoder either, It has all the bells and whistles (so to speak). Check out www.soundtraxx.com if you havent got the details already
I predict this hobby is going to continue to be expensive for first issue cars and locomotives.
I predict that people will continue to pay first issue prices because they always want to be the first to own a ‘whatever’ and because they can!
I predict that many hobbyists will continue to make eBay their primary source of modeling supplies and equipment because they can’t afford first issues.
I predict that hobbyists will spend more money on eBay than at local hobby shops.
I predict that I will actually have a track plan for my “Dream Layout”.
I predict that more or new manufacturers will produce affordable N scale steam locomotives. (More of a dream than a prediction!)
I predict that 2006 will have 365 days in it, at least 2/7ths of which will be weekends!
I predict that I will procrastinate on completing most of my honey-do list.
I predict that that the hobby of model railroading will shrink before it grows.
I predict that every member of this forum will get a surprise for Christmas. (Don’t know if good or bad, just a surprise!) (Imagine my surprise when I opened that Kato box big enough for a UP 4-8-8-4, only to find a 5" wide tie with a bad picture of a docksider on it!)
I predict that model railroading will continue to be fun.
I predict that if you have read this far, you really need to consider better ways to spend your time.
Darrell, Nostradamus-ly quiet…for now
I predict that BLI will release a model of the Missabe Road M-3/4 2-8-8-4 with the Elesco feedwater heater and accurately recorded sound chips for both the ‘chuff’ and the steamboat whistle. I further predict that the locomotive will haul 200 freight cars at a crawl, and BLI will run the first issue as a 2-for-1 sale.
I further predict that the entire stock of these locomotives will be bought up by Aggro and yours truly.
Tom [:P][:P]
There will be a prediction of a late 2007/early 2008 delivery of Tsunami. Bose will enter the HO sound equiped market with a much needed Pennsy K-4 with their usual very authentic sound reproduction and cost 4 payments of only $1000. This new improved sound system will drive the cost of all other sound systems to an all time low.
These predictions have been chalked up on the water tower!
Will
Welcome back from the Artic Fergster, or was this an offshore posting?
Will
I think hornby will announce a live steam HO loco (probably a pacific) in the Rivarossi range (THAT IS A SERIOUS PREDICTION!). they already have the chassis in the uk range and they have expressed a desire to do it.
If this does not happen next year then i think it will definatly happen in 2007. the R&D costs must have been fantastic, they will want to recoup their cash.
Rivarossi will make a huge comeback over the next 5 years.
i hope hornby fill the obvious nichie between the budget stuff and the brass that the bachmann spectrum range is doing (just not very enthusiastically). i was looking at brass over the weekend and it is fantastic but i simply cant afford it.
Peter
I predict that a lot of inane and useless threads will continue to appear on Trains.com’s forums.