RC tooling for sale?

[C855B]

I want to know where the surplus stock went. During the "housecleaning" I bought two dozen 57' mech reefer kits - 12 different PFE numbers each of two underframe styles. They were able to send one of every number, which makes me think that there were bins (and bins and bins) of these things. If I had any idea that the stock was going to flat vanish from the planet I would've doubled the order.

[asarge]

There is some merit to what AH is saying. Several of the cars were run to death. The Autorack is an excellent car, but the price point made it a pnly a so-so seller at a profitable street price. So many showed up on the auction sites or on clearance it was very hard to make a profit on the car.

The Centerbeams did pretty well but unless there a re a bunch of new roads, a new production run might not sell as well. The Atlas HO car is a different car I believe.

Th Coil cars did quite well. IM posted in their Modellers club newsletter that they had not received enough advance reservations on the new run and would hold the eservations open again. But they aree the same schemes that have already been done, some fairly recently. Although, they were popular schemes, how many more can you sell? There are still a fair amount of schemes that have not been done.....like the 2 most popular C&O Hood schemes.

I too widh for more 4700 and 4740 Grain Hopper schemes. Especially the 4700's. There are a ton that haven;t been done yet and some would sell quite well in N I believe.

[Mark5]

My search for the 6 numbers of the N&W (hamburger) scheme on the 4740s spanned this decade and I'm still one number short. Although the lettering is fairly accurate there are no end reporting marks. That's how long ago these were run.

[wm3798]

I'm still kicking myself for not stocking up on the coil cars when they were available.  I've got two of the NW cars, and was eyeballing some Reading ones when Mr. Wallet said "no"....

These are extremely common prototypes, and I don't think the demand for them has been fully met.  The new Atlas coil car is promising, but it's too modern for those of us still wearing Polyester and listening to vinyl records...

Lee

[GaryHinshaw]

I would love to see a number of these cars upgraded: etched roof walks to the covered hoppers (with the present tooling, this is difficult for users because they are molded on); etched walkways and stirrups on the coil cars; fix the tooling on the open and single-panel center beams to make them more correct (they're pretty close, but still).  Also, I wonder if the auto-rack tooling could be readily adapted to a tri-level rack?  I agree that the bi-levels have probably saturated, but there are still some schemes one could do (more BN please) and demand will no doubt rebound in time since this is likely to be state-of-the-art for a while to come.

This raises a general question for an amateur like me: is tooling like this adaptable, or would one just have to start over with changes like this?  I suppose it depends how the tooling is designed.

[Mark5]

I agree that the bi-levels have probably saturated, but there are still some schemes one could do (more BN please) and demand will no doubt rebound in time since this is likely to be state-of-the-art for a while to come.

There are definately more schemes, including one which I would have bought. 

[RockGp40]

How about this scheme?

http://railbaron.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1818783

Good stuff!

[lock4244]

One could use the bi-level tooling as the basis for a rack with enclosed sides but no ends or roof (RTR), or as the basis for a tri-level. And that flat could become a twin-45 or something similar.

And I could always go for six more numbers of the bi-levels for CP Rail (black), CPAA (red), GTW (blue), and CN (black)... cars that were around in 1987-89.

[Mark5]

I'm after the black "NW" scheme (not that crappy 1980s boxcar red scheme!). I bought one of the RC cars to dissect and repaint into the N&W black scheme.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

I hope whoever does them does them up in a FEMA paint scheme:
http://www.rense.com/general58/fearthecomingtrain.htm

I think it'd be fun to mess with the NWO conspiracy crowd...

Ahahahhahahahahaahahahah

[Mark5]

Death Camps for Cutie!

[Mark5]

Here's the NW scheme I'm talking about:

http://www.railcarphotos.com/PhotoDetails.php?PhotoID=47242

(photo taken by a guy that works in the model rr business)

[SkipGear]

I hope whoever does them does them up in a FEMA paint scheme:
http://www.rense.com/general58/fearthecomingtrain.htm

I think it'd be fun to mess with the NWO conspiracy crowd...

Ahahahhahahahahaahahahah

It gets even worse when you read the comments to the video. How do those people survive from one day to the next I'll never understand? The definition of stupid can be found in the ramblings of the coment section of that first video.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

The definition of stupid can be found in the ramblings of the coment section of that first video.

I'd say pretty much ALL of youtube!

Quote my favorite video of all time:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6204903272262158881#
"This is worse than reading youtube comments!"

[ljudice]

And what really sucks is that Walthers is probably NEVER going to bring that FEMA Death Camp kit they just announced to N-scale!