Athearn's Peaked end rib side 70 ton N&W pix posted (H2a standin)

[Mark5]

Mark

Am I seeing things because the ride height looks kind of high on the photos you supplied?

Bob, more stupid angles on manufacturers photos eh? You can't really tell from the photo.

IIRC when Athearn re-tooled the underframe for release as an Athearn product the result was they ride a little higher. I posted comparison pix way back when.

This is easily fixable though.

Mark

[FrankCampagna]

Can't argue with your reasoning. However, Athearn went out on a limb and produced 5 sets of the N&W cars. 25 road numbers. Hope someone buys them, or you might never see another N&W release from them. Again, not disagreeing with you.

Frank

[Mark5]

Athearn was provided abundant data for this (including a discussion on 24" vs 17"). There is no excuse for this, especially when you see what they did with the previous releases of the MDC tooling for the ex-NKP offsets and the ex-VGN flat end rib side 3 bays.

Someone dropped the ball big time. If Athearn experiences self-fulfilling prophecy (ie shoot yourself in the foot) so be it. I don't care. With outfits like Bluford out there maybe someday we'll see some correct N&W 70 ton hoppers.

I'm not about to drop over $200 for cars with crappy lettering.

The reality is that most N scalers probably don't care about the wrong size of the lettering, so they'll probably sell well - then Athearn will re-run them ... with the same crappy lettering.

Mark

[gunner]

Sorry dudes,

17" or 18" lettering doesn't equate to much difference to me. I need steam era hoppers.  I neeed N&W hoppers.  I'll buy a set of these.

It's like the SPF's with their M1a's; build it and we will come.

Looking forward to the decals too.

Bob

[bbussey]

Sorry dudes,

17" or 18" lettering doesn't equate to much difference to me. I need steam era hoppers.  I neeed N&W hoppers.  I'll buy a set of these.

It's like the SPF's with their M1a's; build it and we will come.

Looking forward to the decals too.

Bob

Huge very noticeable difference between 17" (0.10625") and 24" (0.15").

[wm3798]

I fall into the category where I sweat the details on my home road, but close enough is close enough for the stuff rolling through...  So I sympathize with you, Mark...  But I'll probably get some because they support the overall look.  Now, if they made them offset sides, or 4 bays, or some other hideous error, then I'd be storming the castle, too.

I tell you what, I'll swap you that silver WM troop sleeper for a few 17" lettered hoppers! ;D

Lee