I would like to see the 2-8-4 Berkshire in Nickle Plate Road made, This engine is a real monster and looks great… That is just one I want to see made… Thanks, Mark Ryan
I want to see some of the 1840-1850 types. American, of course. And not just line engines. Switchers/shunters, passenger cars, freights–the more oddball-looking the better. Kits would be great. In plastic, not brass.
The English built some unbelievably ugly things, and huge, too. Love 'em. But, how to justify 'em on my RR? Lend-Lease, perhaps?[;)]
By the way, where is that website where people build really improbable-looking RR engines, cars, etc? I thought it was Loco Locomotive, but either he changed his site or my mind’s flaky. (He probably didn’t change his site).
Les
Thomas the Train.
I would suggest looking at Brit engines of the mid-to-late 19th century, some of the most beautiful mechanical creations ever…
Case in point: Dean Single 4-2-2 mid 19th C. wow!
However some of the post WW2 nasties were pretty unforgivable
Whatiizzit, a steam toaster?
Actually its an Austerity 0-6-0, but calling a pig a rose still a pig
Like this? Aster makes it, all you have to do is fork over enough cash to buy a good used car.
Therein lies the problem of “wishlists” alot of what is wished for already exists, its just so dam expensive that it might as well not exist. I’m in that quandry with the brass 0-4-0 Gypsy thats modeled after the Elk River “Falk” but its $800 so might as well not exist for poor little me.
Now AFFORDABLE (near $300) engines I would like to see in G…thats a horse of a different color!
Baldwin Shark 1/29
F40 1/29
Uintah 0-6-2T in 1/22.5
SR&RL 2-6-2 close to 1/22.5
Darjeeling B class 0-4-0T
Brit 2-4-0 Jumbo in 1/29 or 1/32
Brit 4-2-2 Dean Single in 1/29 or 1/32
just to name a few
MOW units.
da Frog
Ok -here I can claim to be impartial -as I am a devout scratch builder!!!
This is my favourite engine, to me it epitomises all that was graceful about the Edwardian era locomotives, after the madness of the Victorian Railway Companies. There are no models or kits for this engine, just that once a year we commune -over a few glasses of beer…
This is: The Great Central Railways, Director Class Locomotive, Butler Henderson.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sheila.capella/BH1.JPG
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sheila.capella/BH2.JPG
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sheila.capella/BH3.JPG
Here you can see “the reach rod” from the drivers cab to the lifting arm of the Stephensons valve gear -for reverse.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sheila.capella/BH4.JPG
Here are a few shots of the Stephensons valve gear with the cylinders in the typical English position -between the frames, and those frames are 1 inch thick…
The next shot shows the eccentrics to the gear -with the drive rods from the pistons at either side. The large red drum objects are the counterweights to the lifting arms
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sheila.capella/BH5.JPG
The valve chest.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sheila.capella/BH6.JPG
The cab
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sheila.capella/BH6.JPG
I find her absolutely beautiful.
regards
ralph
Yeah Ralph, guess I will always have to build my MOW units [|(]
Give it a try, you might like it. Plus you get what YOU want, not what some marketing suit in an office THINKS you want.[;)]
Biggest trouble is finding correct parts, still havent found the right drivers for my Single.
I’d really like to see some 1880-1900 Standard gauge American steam. I really think it could be a vast market that’s sitting there with no one even looking at it.
Jack
Vic, that is not a lie…trucks (highway trucks) normaly seen around yards and different machines like a ballast tamper, but now you have the great super grinders that look like a speed train.
Oh hey!!! quick question, any one know of some one or supplier of the new Santa Fe logo with the mark under it? Need it in SF Blue…
(looks at all the tad poles in swamp and wounders if Vic will make a deal with him?![}:)])
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MOW units.
da Frog
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sumthin’ wrong with the USA trains work cars?
http://www.usatrains.com/usatrainswork.html
-Brian
I agree with Jack, more early standard gauge steamers. I’m looking forward to the LGBofA USRA 0-6-0 and the Aristo std. guage 2-8-0 when they come out.
-Brian
Yes, there older, where is the new ones seen in 80s and now in 2000s?
da Frog
Hi guys
Here is my list
Highland Railway castle class loco and coaches HR goods guard’s van.
Anything Australian 3’6" gauge WAGR bogie G class steamer would be a nice start
The real GHAN thats the 3’6" gauge one to the uninitiated.
Hearse coach any one.
More industrial small stuff not every one has 20’ diameter curves.
regards John
Hey John those are some good choices, I remember seeing on TV what the Ghan was before it became a high speed luxury train.
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Before, it was a slow train, I mean sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow.
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They layed the sleepers direct on the sand when they built it so by the 80’s the roadbed was so old, it was limited to like 15 mph and in some places you could get out and pace along side it. The joke was a newlywed couple boarded the Ghan and by the time it reached Alice Springs their kids were ready for college.
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Here here to more Indy stuff!
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One I want badly are some of the 20" gauge 0-4-4 Porters used on the Arizona Copper Co RR (Coronado RR) they would make nice additions
“some of the most beautiful mechanical creations ever…”
I don’t know Vic…beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Yuck.
Guess it depends if you like Pickups vs Ferraris [;)]
Yeah Robert, ain’t that the truth, I’d really like to see Charlie do more completion of the consist on the ‘Empire Builder’ cars, USA.
Like a duplex sleeper, or two, the full length dome, the buffet car…
Byron
This:
not beautiful???
Sacrelidge!!
Thats like saying you’d prefer Rosie O’donnel over Scarlett Johanson[;)][:D]