hey everyone
I was wondering if anyone heard any big product annoucements yet?
Kato
Atlas
Walthers
Atheran
BLI
etc.
I don’t know about the above, but The Coach Yard has some great releases coming. I am impatiently awaiting the arrival of my Santa Fe Division Superintendent’s business car (#404)!!![:D] The Sam Tech stuff seems to be the same, if not better, quality as the Samhongsa stuff was.
http://www.thecoachyard.com/Pages/Catalog.lasso?CatalogDisplay=P
At the NMRA convention, the Kadee representative was mentioning somehting about a new piece of rolling stock due out this spring that he was pretty excited about. I tried to get him to whisper it to me, but to no avail.
Rick
Do you suppose MTHFool is going to show up with the 8th Wonder of the World again?
An NHRHTA Forum post says an NH NE-5 Caboose with full interior is in the works from a mystery maker. I can hardly wait, every one needs lots of cabeese, if even they are just sitting on the yard’s caboose track waiting for their next symbol freight assignment.
We need more F units![:D][}:)]
I am kinda hoping somebody else would release a K-4!![;)]
Ironically, I agree… A streamlined K-4.
I heard a new Berkshire is coming out this year, with Alesko Feed water heater up front over the headlamp, in HO and N guage, with Tsunami on board. Yessssssssss!!!
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Did you hear if that will be coming out in any New England road names?
Steve, I have not heard anything about road names yet, but I sure am hoping that they have B&A, as that is the road that they were initially built for, to tame the Berkshire Mountain for those long freight drags from Boston to Albany, NY.
Athearn announced several new locomotives and cars two weeks ago.
Unfortunately, they did not announce the K4 or J3a Hudson, just the Big Boy.
HO scale locomotives
4-4-0 steam locomotive. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; Baltimore & Ohio; Chicago & North Western; Denver & Rio Grande Western; Great Northern; and New York Central. Sound-equipped with handheld remote control, upgraded mechanism and tooling, prototype-specific details, and magnetic knuckle couplers. $224.98 to $229.98. July 2006. Roundhouse
4-8-8-4 Big Boy. Union Pacific (two road numbers) and undecorated. Operates on DC and Digital Command Control (DCC). Features factory-installed DCC sound board with dual speakers, five-pole skew-wound armature motor with dual flywheels, blackened RP-25 contour metal wheels, and handheld remote control for DC operation. $449.98. July 2006. Genesis Series
HO scale freight car
American Car & Foundry 2,970-cubic-foot-capacity two-bay covered hopper. Burlington Northern, BNSF Ry. (2005 scheme), Chicago & North Western, Erie Lackawanna, Great Northern, and Western Maryland. Etched-metal running boards, wire grab irons, and RP-25 contour metal wheels. $22.98 to $23.98. February 2006. Ready-to-Roll
I wi***hat someone would introduce a plastic model of the Union Pacific Big Blow turbine…I would buy that in a heart beat.[:D]
It is on its way from Tower 55, the 8500 HP version, new in the 1958 era.
You won’t like the price that is rumored, not listed as of today.
I heard that Walthers is coming out with a new N scale car. Rumor has that it has never been offered before in N scale, but it has been offered by Walthers in the past in HO. Oh and it will not be like that awful bay window caboose they put out in N a few years back. Don’t know if it will be a new flagship car for Proto N. Hoping for a waffle side box car.
E
Only, ONLY, if it is an FL-9.
Any other F unit (or UP or PRR steamer) and I’ll barf.
Didn’t Lionel release an HO scale UP gas turbine a year or so ago? If so you may be able to find one of them. One of the guys in my club has one (it is a Lionel painted in UP colors and has a tender of some sort behind it) I believe he said it was a gas turbine.
As for new releases I would like to see some Kato SD40-2s come back. Especally NS and BNSF.
When talking to the Kato representative at Springfield, I asked him about whether they would rerelease the Mikado. He told me that no, they wouldn’t, because it would cost too much to make it DCC compatible. However, he assured me that “I would be very happy” with what Kato has plans for regarding N scale steam locomotives!
I would like to get a plastic FL9.I have a brass one,but I can’t afford any more at the brass price.A BLI FL9 would be great