What new product would you like to see- besides locos?
Any “ideas” you have you would like to see commercially available to the modeler?
A} what new product in RR equipment?
B} In Scenery materials?
C} In paints and textures?
For me, I would like to see more produced that can be used by the period modeler, especially those that model before 1930. Truss-rod Flats and gondolas would be great. Plastic truss rod passenger cars would be great. What Blackstone is doing for HOn3 would be great in HO. I would like to see more western prototype buildings. More buildings made from corrugated iron rather than brick.
Since I use real dirt and tailings for scenery I don’t have too may comments for that. I use resin rock castings from Bragdon Enterprises and they work great. That is a relative new way to make rocks. Paints that can be sprayed without diluting would be good.
Really small easily installed sound decoders with improved speakers would be great. - Nevin
I would like to see kits of all the RTR junk on the market for half the price of the Chinese assembled stuff.
Pete
A. A 34 ft twin, wood underframe, truss rod, hopper bottom gondola in HO. As far as I can tell no major model manufacturer has ever made a wood coal car for the pre-1910 era. Coal was, by tonnage the largest commodity hauled by railroads and there are literally NO coal cars (other than resin kits) available .
Second place a 34 ft generic 3 or 4 board high gondola.
B. Assuming scenery also means buildings, a stone station or stone factory building.
I’d like a reasonably priced printer that can print white-on-clear decals from my computer.
How about some nicely detailed “Harriman” passenger cars? There are quite a selection to choose from and more railroads than the UP/SP used them as well.
Kits would be nice but I’d settle for more Chinese RTR stuff, just to have them available in something else besides brass.
Mark
An N scale kit for a Santa Fe heavyweight coach. Photo-etched car sides would be okay.
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I have only one wish and that would be for “Self Laying and Ballasting track” Lol…
Johnboy out…
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I have only one wish and that would be for “Self Laying and Ballasting track” Lol…
Johnboy out…
I would like to more vehicles produced such as tractor trailers and farm equipment. I would also like to see manufacturers update the tooling on some of their older freight car models.
Reasonably-priced HO B&O wagontops (boxcars, cabooses, covered hoppers).
More of the 1930s and 1940s HO rolling stock actually painted in 1930’s or 1940’s paint schemes rather than the (admittedly often more colorful) post-war look. I know, I know - I can do it myself and sometimes do, but I prefer to detail, weather, and run rather than paint and decal.
A. 63’ Centerbeam (like the old Front Range/McKean kit
B. a late-70s to mid 80s ford pick-up (actually the car selection in this era is kind of weak)
C. paint that drys to a saftey tread pattern
More sound decoders that feature doppler. I know we can do it. We have the technology.
I would like to see the basic fundamental locomotives and cars from key eras available on a continuous basis rather than once ever ten years or so. Doesn’t have to be every car or locomotive ever produced, nor does it have to be in every possible road name. Just the standard, typical freight car and locomotives. I don’t care if you’ve manufactured the most hyper detailed example of whatever to be released, if it’s not available to purchase, it does me no good.
Products that don’t cost a fortune in international freight fees (if they ship it international in the first place) - then again what else can I expect living in Middle Earth [(-D]
Quirks aside one thing I would like to see is more RDC (Rail Diesil Cars)
Like these models
http://www.frankship.com/eauckland.html <<<< Click on the pictures inside for enlargements
After my coal railroad - more to the point - I would adapt the layout to allow RDC’s and commuter rail on my operation between two cities with a coal mine in the middle [swg]
Self Ballasting track DOES exist!
It’s called Atlas True Track, Bachmann EZ Track, LifeLike Power-Loc track…
I´d like to see a little more stuff from the early days of railroading. High up on my wish list is a well made 4-4-0, plus sufficient rolling stock. And, of course, buildings, figures, vehicles from that era.
I would like to see the new generation of the automated vehicle system that Faller unveiled some years ago. As I remember, it was very expensive, but I have not seen much on it in quite some time. Automated vehicles on a layout would be great!
High quality, thin wall mobile homes
A lot in the vehicle department:
Isuzu boxtruck
Camry, Accord, Corrolla
Pneumatic bulk trailers (plastic pellets etc.)
Lance
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Ditto Ulrich’s suggestions. Plus more selections of vehicles from the 60’s and mainly '70’s.