iHobby 2007?

[cv_acr]

Late 1970s is when all those colourfull shortline 50' boxcars were being built. The railroads were modernizing and getting more colourful in the late 60s and early 70s, (eg, CP's multimark in '69, the emergence of the RailBox pool) but when everyone started buying boxcars to rent out thing really got colourful. Then in the 1990s and 2000s a lot went back to plain brown, without even logos, although some like KCS are starting to buck the trend again.

[Mark5]

circa 1970:
GN Red
GN Blue
GN Green
BN Green
CB&Q Red
PC Green
IC Orange
N&W Blue
UP Yellow
SOO LINE white/red
L&N Blue
NH in red, black, etc
RDG Green
RDG Green & White
NYC Green
LV Green
LV White
B&M Blue
DTI Blue
DTI Green
DTI Magenta
AC&Y Yellow
MEC Yellow/Green
P&LE Green
NP colorful herald boxcars


man this could go on and on ...

but yeah maybe it's a six of one, half dozen of another thing

[3rdrail]

There may have been fewer colors in 1930, but there were four times as many railroads! OTOH, what about billboard reefers, outlawed in 1938?

[ljudice]

why were they outlawed?

[3rdrail]

why were they outlawed?

The ICC, in its infinite wisdom, felt that the advertising gave the owners and lessees of "private" cars an unfair competitive advantage over those using railroad provided cars. Nevermind rolling billboards on the highways, which it couldn't control unless they were for hire.

The AAR maintains the ban to this day under its Interchange Rule 84. ITEL Rail lettered a boxcar for the Houston County, Alabama, Chamber of Commerce when it opened a repair facility in Dothan. I thought it was a good idea and designed one for the AN to do for the Gulf County CofC. The AAR shot it down and made ITEL repaint its car. Stone Container got into hot water over its logo on the Abbeville-Grimes boxcars, too.

[bobcat]

Bobcat,

Supposedly people have been told wink, nod, wink, say no more, that they are coming next year.

Lou

I heard the same thing about a GE 6 axle loco, but no specific model.

Even then, its been a long wait... >

[Mark5]

I'm guessing nothing was announced ...

[ljudice]

Someone posted a report on trainboard, but there was not much of anything new...

[sparky]

I heard the same thing about a GE 6 axle loco, but no specific model.

Even then, its been a long wait... >

Maybe Atlas is using the time to develop a 3 axle truck that isn't crap.  I haven't had much luck with Atlas 6 axle locos- my SD60's didn't run well at all.  Their 4 axle units are great, but I'll stick with Kato for 6 axle units for now.

[Mark5]

saw this on the A forum:

http://www.hobbycraftsnmore.com/Show%20&%20Expo%20Pages%20&%20Galleries/Show%20&%20Expo%20Images/Hobby%20Mixed%20Show%20Images/2007/International%20iHobby%20Expo%202007/102007%20055.jpg

that conveniently obscures the sign but it appears to be McHenry announcing a N coupler?

or was this photoshopped?

anybody here have experience with them in HO?

[3rdrail]

The McHenry N scale coupler is formally announced in the Model Railroader final report about iHobby on the Trains.com website. The particular coupler shown, to be available in  January 2008, looks like it fits perfectly into an IMRC truck. Guess I'll buy a few to put in IMRC trucks to test.

[RS-27]

The McHenry N scale coupler is formally announced in the Model Railroader final report about iHobby on the Trains.com website. The particular coupler shown, to be available in  January 2008, looks like it fits perfectly into an IMRC truck. Guess I'll buy a few to put in IMRC trucks to test.

Ahhh, the question is: another clunky 1015 wannabe, or something closer to scale? 

McHenry has been listening to the HOers, with both scale size and options.  Perhaps we'll get some respect, but no double shelf version for me, kinda hard to use uncoupling picks.

Bob in IDaho

[Mark5]

The McHenry N scale coupler is formally announced in the Model Railroader final report about iHobby on the Trains.com website. The particular coupler shown, to be available in  January 2008, looks like it fits perfectly into an IMRC truck. Guess I'll buy a few to put in IMRC trucks to test.

Doesn't IMRC use M-T trucks these days? (Accumates before that)

[3rdrail]

The McHenry N scale coupler is formally announced in the Model Railroader final report about iHobby on the Trains.com website. The particular coupler shown, to be available in  January 2008, looks like it fits perfectly into an IMRC truck. Guess I'll buy a few to put in IMRC trucks to test.

Doesn't IMRC use M-T trucks these days? (Accumates before that)

I dunno. I haven't bought an IMRC since they quit making kits. The kits had dummies that coupled with MTL knuckles. I replaced the trucks with MTL's, but still have them in a box.

[amato1969]

My local shop will order kits for me from Walthers.  I use the IM trucks, with body-mount MT 1015s.