Scale Trains Year End 2023 Video

[TW877]

I am left wondering if "new" may be "new to ScaleTrains" - e.g., the FVM GP60 series tooling. I would like to see some of their HO items offered in N, but we'll see what happens.

Would be highly welcome. If they come with the details installed that would make them my choice over the Atlas (ex Proto) GP60.

Chris

[Englewood]

Being a protofreelancer, that new line of Hypotypical kinda worries me some.  I wouldn't say no to a SP Bloody Nose (or even Black Widow) ET44AC.

Haha, same here with the Bloody Nose, or a blue and yellow  Warbonnet. As far as the new locomotive they talked about, I believe that's what they called the old FVM SD70s when they announced them, a "new locomotive." I'd welcome more GP60s!

[robert3985]

I'm gonna put my money on one of the two N-scale locomotives from Scale Trains this year being a UP Veranda Turbine...with and without tender.  I better start saving my nickles and dimes 'cause there are also the BLI Challengers coming out!



2024 is gonna hit my wallet hard...which is a good thing!

Cheerio!
Bob Gilmore

[lock4244]

A freight car with a feature we have never seen in N? Rotating axle ends? That's my guess.

Seems like superfluous fluff... albeit very cool, but unnecessary.

[mu26aeh]

Seems like superfluous fluff... albeit very cool, but unnecessary.

I won't have a horse in this race but I agree, while cool, something that is not needed in N scale with prices already reaching $40 and up for new rolling stock.

[lock4244]

What I would love to see were some 1980's era partially enclosed autoracks. Not certain when these started to show up, but I'm seeing most pictures online of then from the early 1980's up to 1995ish. Seems a bit of a gap imo in n scale freightcar offerings, at least for my purposes. Athearn did a Southern car with white sides a few years back, an I've seen at least one in a video shot in 1991 in my area of interest, but that particular car wasn't by any means common. I know the roof can be removed from the Red Caboose rack, and that's definitely a project for the future, but not the same car I'm talking about.

Be a nice prototype for someone to do. ST maybe?

[squirrelhunter]

This is a very common misconception in the model railroading world, "this came from an already produced railroads order why can't they do them". ST is right in their reason to have not done the MKTs yet as even amongst BN orders the details can vary wildly and the times units have been done as order additions there's still changes made at customer request. EMD was known as Every Model Different for a reason.

They are so committed to prototype fidelity they announced a while line of foobs with a marketing tag..."Hypotypical"

Also, I know the HO guys go nuts over stuff like "the jacking pads are wrong", but given the economic realities of N, I'd rather an MKT painted SD40-2 with the wrong jacking pads or ECABF than not have one at all because it's not correct to the absolute last detail.

SD40-2's must give the manufacturers an allergic reaction every time they run them...

[thomasjmdavis]

I better start saving my nickles and dimes 'cause there are also the BLI Challengers coming out!

To paraphrase Slim Pickens- we are going to need "a s**tload of dimes."

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