With Walthers doing a nice job of coming out with more RTR passenger cars, especially the mainline series of 85’ passenger cars, are there any passenger cars/types you would like to see walthers come out with that have not been made before or not in decades? I would love to Walthers come out with a Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Boonton coach and Stillwell coach and combine. I know Funaro & Camerlengo have the stillwell cars, but a bit pricey. Would be cool if walthers came out with Boonton coach in their mainline series.
Ironically, for ACL, SAL, SCL, and early Amtrak modelers there is a car that Walthers could produce from current tooling that requires minor modifications.
Walthers produces the Budd Baggage Lounge:
https://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/910-30050.
Here is the version needed if one were to model ACL, SCL, or early Amtrak’s CHAMPION:
http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1968278
For the ACL, SCL, and early AMTK versions the window arrangement would need to be modified, and a vestibule would be needed.
Cheaper cars,40 bucks for one is a little steep.
ATSF or UP 11 Double bedroom sleeper and CBQ 5-6 sleeper in N Scale for Amtrak Rainbow Era.
I could add more different types of passenger cars, but to much to name.
INTERIORS#### for most common types of passengers cars. Wlthers has them installed in their existing products; all they need to do is design some packaging and order an additional run of these parts. Since the original IHC went bust, finishing a car without in interior has become difficult and expensive.
Why, yes!
I’d like to see SP&S 31, 75, 405, and 600/601.
And some NP North Coast Limited coaches and sleepers.
Ed
I would pay $50 for a 10 pack of generic plastic molded interiors. That’s $5/car for me, and walthers gets $50 towards the cost of a single mold.
Considering they’ve been plying the rails for almost 25 years with no end in sight, I wish the Viewliners got the same availability as the Superliners.
I second what Ed said, I could use more SP&S coaches in N scale. I have almost half the LW cars, need the other lounge, the remaining coaches(If I don’t already have them), the LW diner, and two baggage coaches. Then there’s the Budds which are a new set of challenges.
Greetings,
I’d really love to see that baggage lounge in N scale with Wabash 650 on it. That HO car looks like Wabash 650 as far as I can tell. Then I’d need a Wabash 1601 Parlor Observation in N to go with it.
Happy railroading,
Bob L.
Rock Island’s Capone commuter car would be great. I’d buy tons. Since they were spread out to dozens of other railroads, tourist lines, etc after the Rock Island’s death, they would be very popular. They could also compliment the Walthers Dinner Belle train line. One car. Infinite possibilities.
I’d also like to see the SP/RI Golden State set. It would have massive appeal to both Southern Pacific and a Rock Island fans. Not to mention that they have already done some of the cars (or nearly done them) and the rest would be easy to make the sides to use on the car core to replicate.
@ G Paine: I TOTALLY agree with you on the interiors! I cases where the interior cost me more than the interiorless car! What a shame!
@ Rock Island Jim: I agree with you on the RI/SP Golden State! Red and sliver is such a beautiful combination! Love that paint scheme! And they should do all the 3 different observation car types of this train: the blunt ended SP sleepers, the round ended RI sleeper lounge observations and last but not least “La Mirada”, RI´s sleeper lounge observation with those higher windows originally built for the Golden Rocket!
For my part I would also like if Walthers would finally add a Baggage Dormitory, Touralux Sleeper, Lake Sleeper and Creek Sleeper Skytop Lounge Observation so that a MILW Olympian Hiawatha can also be modeled.
I would also like if all future cars would be produced with a construction that allows 18 inches as minimum radius!
Nobody, save for MDC, has ever offered RTR models of vestibuled wood equipment, save for brass models that are instantly identifiable as unusual prototypes (think of the PFM Kettle Valley set or the Beaver Creek Yosemite Valley train). But the fact is that a lot of the mass production wood Pullman cars from the 1900-1910 timeframe are usable in a wide range of settings, without even variations in paint scheme. They ran on many trains without apology or excuse through the early 1930s, particularly in the West. Standard designs such as a 12-1 sleeper, 7-2 sleeper, 10-1-2 sleeper, ten section obs, and 28 seat parlor were basically mixed and matched with the coaches, head end cars and power from a railroad to form trains- but regardless of the host railroad, Pullman cars were lettered for Pullman in those days.
I forgot to add that the very first steel Pullmans- those identifiable by the transom windows and narrow fascia board, which distinguish the first six years of steel body production - are also something I would love to see, but I suspect the demand for those is infinitesimally small!
Wood and steel Pullmans would be welcomed by me, especially arch window cars. Good MOW cars for the SP&S.
In HO, bring back the heavyweight RPO.
How about some MA & PA coaches and baggage/mail cars?
Enjoy
Paul
The Westwood set is there for you…and if you hit it right, you can get them for thirty dollars a car on EBay, which is cheaper than a Walthers car would be…
Walthers is already addressing one of my wishes by tooling up an arch roof for its heavyweight baggage car. I’d like to see their Wabash-painted and C&O-painted modernized baggage cars reissued with these roofs, but I’ll repaint, if necessary.
There are three other heavyweight cars I’d like to see:
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A baggage/express-RPO similar to the venerable AHM/Rivarossi one, but with a six-foot door, a 15-foot or a 30-foot RPO section, and modern tooling. This would work for a lot of roads.
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An arch-roofed baggage/express-RPO with two baggage doors per side and a 30-foot (three-window) RPO section, similar to those used on the C&O and the Wabash.
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A baggage/express-RPO-coach. I’ve seen photos of them on the Pennsy and Soo Line, and I think the Northern Pacific had them. This car makes for a very compact all-in-one branchline passenger train. One of my friends’ layout has a run that this car would fit perfectly, and I bet that it would work well on quite a few other layouts.
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Metra bilevels, especially the Q/BN/BNSF Budd cars.
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Improved version of the Amtrak Viewliners.
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Improved version of the commuter / Amtrak Horizon cars.
Cornelius Koelewijn.